I just exported my bookmarks from Delicious. The resulting html file was 5.5 MB. I guess that tells how much I've actually used Delicious. Sad to see it go...
Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
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#122I have a been working on a replacement http://toadjaw.com but haven't opened it up to the public. It allows importing from delicious.com. Anybody interested in using it?
I'd be happy to use your site. Basically I just use delicious as distributed bookmarks across all my machines. I'll be sad to see it go.
I'll get it opened up and let you know.
Thanks!
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#123It's been a busy day over here.
I bet. I looked at signing up, but the password field is plain text. What's up w/ that?
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#124is there any contact for interested buyers?
(serious)
sent e-mail to delicious and yahoo - if anyone knows a quicker contact let me know! THANKS!
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is exactly why Groupon wisely backed away from a deal with Yahoo.
Considering they also rejected Google's offer, I'd say there was more to it than Yahoo's past failures.
You are right. However, I don't think Yahoo's track record in integrating acquired companies helped them at all. Google is perceived as an innovative company where Yahoo seems to follow the leader.
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#126is there any contact for interested buyers? (serious) sent e-mail to delicious and yahoo - if anyone knows a quicker contact let me know! THANKS!
maybe someone has a phone number or e-mail address from someone in charge of those kind of decisions.
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#127Time to move my bookmarks from Delicious.
Google Bookmarks looks like a possibility. I don't care that it doesn't have the social thing and I want something with good browser integration.
Does anyone have an working instructions for migrating to Google Bookmarks? Most sites refer to this page which appears to be broken - http://persistent.info/delicious2google/
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#128Noooo! 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.
http://pinboard.in aims to be a Delicious replacement and has an interesting payment model.
I've had a del.icio.us account since the beginning in 2003 and migrated to Pinboard last year. It's a worthy replacement and everything Delicious should have been, with something approximating the UX from the older service. And Maciej and pvg are very responsive on Twitter.
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#129Anyone want to do a weekend hackathon with me and build a replacement? We could probably capitalize on delocios shutting down to get some traction.
I'm a Python developer in the valley. You choose a coffee shop and let's get hacking.
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#130Earlier 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'.
they never really tried to monetize. they just put some ads on the search pages.