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Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by aheilbut »

petercooper wrote: post #62
gms wrote: post #26

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…

The other loss is how you can use it to discover other people interested in the same incredibly esoteric things as you. It was a like an asynchronous, organized version of twitter, 3? years early.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by idlewords »

xbryanx wrote: post #152
wyclif wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'll second that. I've been super happy with pinboard. They personally helped me track down some technical problems I had importing my delicious, and haven't looked back.

Hey, thanks! I'm really glad you like the service.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by borism »

greyman wrote: post #115
seldo wrote: post #21

The writing has been on the wall for delicious for years. They never made any money, never found mainstream adoption, never made use of the enormous flow of user sharing data they were getting to do anything interesting. They have been operating on a skeleton crew for years. Such a shame.

Fail. Kill a product which used to be best in its own niche and which provided valuable data for free... I just don't understand...

emphasis on free.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by idlewords »

Matti wrote: post #143
delano wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I upgraded to a paid Historious account a couple of days ago and I just imported all of my 4000+ bookmarks from Delicious. What drew me to historio.us was the caching: I love the fact that all my bookmarks are cached.(1) Lately I've been trying to cut down on the information I consume so the lack of 'social' features doesn't really bother me -- right now I'm more interested in retaining the stuff that I've already bo…

We do have the same feature, but unlike historious we actually store the bookmark content. See http://pinboard.in/blog/153/

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by idlewords »

calvinf wrote: post #123
idlewords wrote: post #27

It'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?

It's pale plain text at password creation time, and regular password dots when you login. Saves having to have a 'confirm password' box.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by idlewords »

tcdent wrote: post #116
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.

http://pinboard.in aims to be a Delicious replacement and has an interesting payment model.

The payment model is @joshu's idea

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by pavel_lishin »

alex_h wrote: post #83
nostromo wrote: post #52

Time to back up those flickr photos.

Are there any photo services offering an import from Flickr? I imagine it would be good business to offer one, playing to the fear of a complete Yahoo implosion. Although I admit it's highly unlikely Flickr will go the way of Delicious

I'd settle for a well-written perl/python script.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by ch0wn »

petercooper wrote: post #56
seldo wrote: post #21

The writing has been on the wall for delicious for years. They never made any money, never found mainstream adoption, never made use of the enormous flow of user sharing data they were getting to do anything interesting. They have been operating on a skeleton crew for years. Such a shame.

never made use of the enormous flow of user sharing data they were getting to do anything interesting. It's a shame they didn't, because many of us users sure did/do. By virtue of its popularity and simplicity, you could know almost every page with any merit was in its system and tagged, making it easy to discover stuff you hadn't even bookmarked yet. Example: Want a good Python tutorial about threads? http://www.del…

The search feature you note is by far my favorite part. Finding good resources on very specific topics can be really hard using google, but delicious has always been an incredibly accurate source for those.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by pavel_lishin »

djacobs wrote: post #109

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…

So how do you decide what to sign up for?
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