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Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by Shengster »

yesimnathan wrote: post #81

I guess I'll have no more use for my yahoo ID.

I really have to think hard about which products from Yahoo! that I actually use. I used to have a Yahoo! email account, but Gmail came along and blew it out of the water.

Aside from Flickr, all Yahoo! is useful for now is checking the latest sports scores.

I remember as a kid back in the 90s, Yahoo! was the place to go if you ever needed to find something. That's been heavily supplanted by Google now.

Hearing about the recent layoffs is pretty depressing. Is Yahoo! ever going to recover?

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by wslh »

Welcome to the Cloud!

Seriously, companies must take responsibility for the data. It's important to note that delicious also has private bookmarks so it's not possible to just backup the repository and distribute it.

In my opinion the best way to solve this is to set up an auction for the "delicious asset".

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by [deleted] »

idlewords wrote: post #184
Matti wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

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Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by kirubakaran »

adambyrtek wrote: post #149
kirubakaran wrote: post #131

Automatically backup your Delicious bookmarks here : http://www.favbot.com/import-delicious.html OAuth import will be up soon.

If you just want to download the bookmarks you can simply execute $ 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.

That will just get you the data. Favbot makes it available online.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

#195

Post by tocomment »

elg0nz wrote: post #129
tocomment wrote: post #66

Anyone 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.

I'm in Dc bro :-(

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by ivank »

Tichy wrote: post #173
sabat wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's public right now . It won't be once Yahoo pulls the plug on Delicious.

User-agent: * Disallow: / I don't remember the robots.txt rules for sure, but doesn't that mean they don't allow crawlers at all?

That's the rule for crawlers that aren't Slurp, Googlebot, Teoma, or msnbot.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by bootload »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #153
tocomment wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's public data! You could scrape and index it now for free if you wanted...

"... It's public data! You could scrape and index it now for free ..."

That is the most insightful thing I've read today.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by StavrosK »

idlewords wrote: post #184
Matti wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

At historious, this is a core feature (you don't have to pay to get it). Even for the free accounts, every single bookmark will be cached with the optional ability to be published for your reference (the URL never changes, so you can give it to people).

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

#199

Post by idlewords »

miniatureape wrote: post #101
mrduncan wrote: post #31

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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.

So far it's holding up (about 40 hps) but we seem to be getting these intermittent connection drops. Waiting for things to calm down a bit before we start monkeying with configuration.
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