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This is really annoying... I have over 3000 bookmarks on del.icio.us all nicely tagged, nice browser plugins, use it every day, etc. Definitely hoping to find an alternative that isn't a step backwards...
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Google has their loss-leader products that exist for the benefit of the online community, but I don't think that this is (necessarily) Yahoo lacking that benevolence. Let's face it, Google has a lot more capital to back non-profitable products. Yahoo supported Delicious for as long as they could, but ultimately it's hard to justify liabilities like expensive, non-profitable projects to your shareholders. Google can d…
Especially when you look at the vast number of unprofitable products they offer. (Pipes and YQL come to mind)
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.
I haven't tried it yet, but people say good things about http://historio.us/ The founder is on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605908
(1) It looks like pinboard.in has the same function for about the same yearly price.
Where's the best place to migrate all of your Del.icio.us bookmarks?
Chrome has free bookmark syncing built in. There's also the Xmarks plugin if you don't want to be tied to a specific browser.
I was also happy to pay for the service following the LastPass acquisition.
It works for me because I don't tag. Instead, I have a stable set of folders into which bookmarks get sorted. At this point, if something doesn't fit one of these categories, it's probably not relevant to me.
Open question: How could Yahoo have monetized delicious? I'll start: Use the browser plugin to deliver highly targeted but low profile ads to users. The targeting would be based on the longitudinal interest data they have for millions of users, many of whom have been tagging their interests for months or years. For active users, I think this data is better than facebook targeting info.
Another angle; recruitment, at least for software developers. For active users, del.icio.us is one of best reflections of your skillset out there, with the exception of github. Potential employers or headhunters pay to search for matching profiles.
Delicious is a black hole for me. I have 95 bookmarks, and once something is bookmarked with it, I never visit it later. Is this unique to me?
I have 5919 bookmarks in there. But.. of course, it's just structured data, I could import it to other services and use it fine. The real loss here is how you can use it to analyze other people's bookmarks. Almost every page of any merit is tagged and in their system, just because Delicious is/was the biggest game in town. Wanna find HN links about Java? Try http://www.delicious.com/tag/hn+java .. want a tutorial abo…
Automatically backup your Delicious bookmarks here : http://www.favbot.com/import-delicious.html OAuth import will be up soon.
$ curl https://user:pass@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > delicious.xml
I was running it from cron to do daily backups.
EDIT: I've just noticed that somebody has already posted a similar command, so sorry for a duplicate.
Please, Yahoo, distribute the final public-facing database for free. There are millions of links organized in there and it's an incredibly useful repository. If that data is lost, we just lost thousands of man years of tagging the Web.
Unfortunately someone would raise a privacy stink just like they did for the netflix prize data and the aol search data. This is why we can't have nice things.