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Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

#101

Post by miniatureape »

mrduncan wrote: post #31
telemachos wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to Pinboard ( http://pinboard.in ) in April and I highly recommend it. It's not free, but it's well worth looking at. (The pricing is a one-time fee that climbs as the site grows. It's currently $6.89. There's also a service to archive your bookmarks, but I haven't tried that. That's $25 a year currently.) Here's their (probably about to be updated) "Should you switch from Delicious?" page: http://pinboard…

This has to be great news for Pinboard - I'm not sure how much they raise the price with each purchase, but less than 30 minutes later and the current price is already $6.92. Edit: 7 minutes later it's now $6.94

I've been seeing service unavailable pages every few times I load pinboard. I wonder how their infrastructure will handle this unexpected surge.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

#102

Post by lepht »

chriseidhof wrote: post #92
[deleted] wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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In a way, companies should be in it for the money. That might even have prevented this. Of course, money shouldn't be the only motivator, but in general, companies should aim to make money, very healthy.

Maybe, but I think the only thing that would have been 'prevented' is delicious existing for as long as it did. They've tried to monetize, xmarks tried to monetize, both failed.

It seems possible that maybe social online bookmarking services just aren't profitable at this point in time, and can only exist as a 'public service'.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

#103

Post by petercooper »

lepht wrote: post #102
chriseidhof wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a way, companies should be in it for the money. That might even have prevented this. Of course, money shouldn't be the only motivator, but in general, companies should aim to make money, very healthy.

Maybe, but I think the only thing that would have been 'prevented' is delicious existing for as long as it did. They've tried to monetize, xmarks tried to monetize, both failed. It seems possible that maybe social online bookmarking services just aren't profitable at this point in time, and can only exist as a 'public service'.

It seems possible that maybe social online bookmarking services just aren't profitable at this point in time, and can only exist as a 'public service'.

People said that about search in the late 90s. Why Delicious didn't get into advertising is beyond me. With the way everything's tag-based, you'd have had crazy targeting.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

#105

Post by lepht »

Jun8 wrote: post #85

Noooo! I love delicious and am using it daily, it's one of the reasons I don't completely switch to Chrome (since the plugin is not as good as the Firefox one). OK, time to dire off the API and suck off all the bookmarks. Where should I put all my bookmarks? What other bookmark service has a nice browser plugin, APIs, etc? After this I'm also convinced that Yahoo is hopeless.

This might be bad timing, but I finally discovered a Chrome extension that's basically there- Chromicious (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/animchmhhndbcfah...)

I absolutely _need_ a viable delicious alternative, too. xMarks looks like the closest bet, but their UI isn't intuitive and it's coated in ugly.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

#106

Post by idlewords »

St-Clock wrote: post #58
idlewords wrote: post #27

It's been a busy day over here.

Yup, "The service is not available. Please try again later."

We've been trying to figure that one out. No connection problems for the vast majority of people, but there are a couple who report this

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

#108

Post by tomh »

mrduncan wrote: post #31
telemachos wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to Pinboard ( http://pinboard.in ) in April and I highly recommend it. It's not free, but it's well worth looking at. (The pricing is a one-time fee that climbs as the site grows. It's currently $6.89. There's also a service to archive your bookmarks, but I haven't tried that. That's $25 a year currently.) Here's their (probably about to be updated) "Should you switch from Delicious?" page: http://pinboard…

This has to be great news for Pinboard - I'm not sure how much they raise the price with each purchase, but less than 30 minutes later and the current price is already $6.92. Edit: 7 minutes later it's now $6.94

I just paid $7.02, and after that it became $7.03. Now it makes sense.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

#109

Post by djacobs »

One reason I don't sign up with every new startup that comes along--even if they're innovative and helpful and better than the competition--is that I don't want to invest time in something that could fail. And every time I see a web service fail, even if it was no longer a startup, I lose hope that good services can last. Seeing this, for example, I'm not likely to put stock in an online bookmarking startup any time soon.

It seems to me like this is one way that the failure of large companies can lead to the failure of unrelated startups. And it sucks.

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