I've been using http://historio.us for a few weeks now and have been impressed. Now, I've not looked at other services, but I think its great that I don't have a desktop filled with shortcuts that I will never use. Indeed, it's really helped me a few times when I know what was on a site, but not what the site was called - a quick search and I find it. It makes life easier and the free version will handle up to around 300 bookmarks I think. I did pay for the full version and was a bit disappointed that the 'tagging' was handled after the bookmarking (so I never use it) but its a good service.
Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative?
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Re: Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
"We promise never to sell to Yahoo so there will be no chance of us closing down!" -> that's incorrect logic.
It was only meant to be a light hearted joke. However if you want a serious reply - Yahoo bought Delicious and then a few years later they decide they want to possibly close down Delicious thus panicking users everywhere. We are focused on our userbase and would not want to put our site, which some of our users rely on, in any danger of closing and thereby forcing users to lose their bookmarks.
To be honest, that sounds a little naive. If you were to become really big, would you not sell? Or just not to Yahoo? Things can change a lot in a few years.
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#23I never got the whole bookmarking craze. Why is this useful? Google has every link on the web and you can easily search for things. It always seemed easier just go to google and search again then try to bookmark, tag and use another search to find a link you may never use again.
I find that I use my "favorites" on my browser a lot, then change computers and don't have the links I stored. Google and Bing are very good at what they do, but there are certain articles/how-tos and such that I find very useful to keep around without having to remember the exact query I used to pull them up on Google. Also, search results change over time, so that blog article I loved might not score on the search…
I have never had more then a 5 favorites, unless it is something I go to everyday (google analytics) then it doesn't get added.
Also browsers have great autocomplete. If I want to go to hackers news. I hit "n" in the url bar and I am there.
Re: Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative?
#24Suggestion: use OpenID for authentication. I'm going to test the site anyway, but I'm really not looking forward to the prospect of creating yet another account on yet another site.
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#25With Delicious closing down we thought we would recommend our bookmarking site - Favilous. We promise never to sell to Yahoo so there will be no chance of us closing down! We had been working on a major revamp of the site and it just so happened Delicious made their announcement (or didn't make their announcement!) when we were about to press the launch button. What do we offer? Bookmark quickly and effectively for f…
Okay, how do I import bookmarks from delicious? The "Import bookmarks" option allows only importing from a file and I haven't find anything in help about importing from various sources.
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#26I wrote my own Delicious alternative: http://1r7.net :)
I'm working on OAuth integration with Yahoo for import, some nifty display stuff, and device-aware CSS for clean browsing on your phone or ipad or whatnot. It's a fun project.