Many, many years (15!) ago Jon Udell posted a screencast that introduced me to del.icio.us [1] through the lens of evolving tagging vocabularies in public discourse, and I still remember it to this day. Well worth watching to see this time capsule of what the web once was.
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#282What a hero — love how the story of Pinboard stacks up against the long-term unsustainability of VC-funded and overhyped startups. Quote from the 2011 article[0]: "My dream is to keep this a one-person project," says Ceglowski. "I am competing against billionaires like the YouTube guys running Delicious and I can hold my own. The tools I use have gotten so good and they are the same ones that Yahoo and Google use." I…
It does seem like there might be room out there for things that aren't unicorns, but are sustainable / good products that can operate, even at a profit, with small teams. I always think of / mention Gumroad when I think of that: https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting I worry in the rush to the tip top we lose some good products / services / economic activity that are billion dollar wins... but are still way good ideas.
My favorite is https://readwise.io
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#283I started using del.icio.us VERY early in its inception but stopped well before the sell off. This part struck me though.
>If you had data on the site before 2010, whether I still have it depends on whether you completed the "opt-in" process in 2011, when Yahoo transferred the site to AVOS.
I'm not sure I ever remember doing that (although it was 9 years ago). But I think I still do have an old export left over...
Hopefully there will be an import feature that can read the same data file, because I'd be interested in returning to it under Pinboard's stewardship.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of sites that do have a feed don’t make it easily discoverable. You can play around with three URL path, or you can use a browser extension to find it. If it’s a Substack site, the feed URL probably exists and is probably just /feed/, at least on the sites I’ve tried.
There's browser plugins that fix the feed discovery issue. For example: Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/ Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-finder/ijdgeed...
To tack on to this, NetNewsWire on Mac OS X also provides a Safari extension.
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does seem like there might be room out there for things that aren't unicorns, but are sustainable / good products that can operate, even at a profit, with small teams. I always think of / mention Gumroad when I think of that: https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting I worry in the rush to the tip top we lose some good products / services / economic activity that are billion dollar wins... but are still way good ideas.
My favorite is https://readwise.io
Is there any existing directory of similar products? Small team, sustainable.
I ask because I know one of the big tradeoffs of bootstrapping is no growth "war chest" — but I would love to find and use more of these!
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
It never went away. If you want experience similar to Google Reader - there are several clients (but better ones require paid subscription). RSS feeds are still there.
RSS feeds are still there And so heavily truncated, spoiling the point in many (but not all) cases of having an RSS feed entirely.
> And so heavily truncated, spoiling the point in many (but not all) cases of having an RSS feed entirely.
I'm of two minds about this. On one hand, as a reader it's convenient to have the full text and images of the articles/posts so that I can look at them all in one place without much effort.
On the other hand, as a webmaster, I might have months or years worth of content on my site that I want visitors to look at, and if they never visit my site again after finding and subscribing to the RSS feed, odds are that they'll never see any of it. So truncating the entries is a good way to nudge readers into visiting my site if there's something that looks interesting rather than downloading full text and images for a bunch of articles that they might not even read, which would be a waste of bandwidth.
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#287Not to rain on the parade, but serious question: are bookmarks actually useful anymore? It's funny, I'm trying to remember when I simply stopped using bookmarks. 5 years ago, maybe? 10? I'm not entirely sure. I used to have elaborate folder hierachies of bookmarks in my browser. But at some point, I realized anytime I needed something, it was faster to just type a keyword or two in the address bar. Either it was ther…
Like others here, I have 10,000+ bookmarks on pinboard and add several daily. I can be on any number of computers, iPad, phone at any given time so an online, centralized database of sites, personally tagged, is extremely useful.
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#288del.icio.us was the epitome of web search and discovery for me. I used it over other search engines back in the day. It was great at finding sites on esoteric topics. I think human curated search like this is the best kind. Unfortunately those days are long gone and we have the Web by Google now.
I completely agree. del.icio.us search results were often phenomenally good, better than Google for certain types of searches at the time.
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#289I went to a talk by Joshua Schachter not that long after del.icio.us started gaining traction. It was a most fantastic time for the web, the possibilities seemed endless. I happen to think if it hadn't been bought by Yahoo! who seemed to have no vision for it then it would still be a tool I relied on.
I am surprised to see Joshua Schachter only mentioned once throughout this entire thread. I loved the story of how he started Del.icio.us from essentially nothing. He was one of my heroes at the time.