curl https://{your username}:{your password}@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > bookmarks.xml
I wrote a quick webapp to help ppl export links (for the command line skittish): http://mattcrampton.com/delicious
Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
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I just paid $7.02, and after that it became $7.03. Now it makes sense.
I'm paying 7.22. Office pool: predict the price at GMT 00:00 tonight. :)
It's $7.37 now. But it doesn't matter how much they charge because I will never be using their service, anyway.
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#213Time to back up those flickr photos.
Yahoo has actually put their full weight behind Flickr -- they even shut down their original Yahoo Photos site while Flickr was still smaller and forced the users to migrate or leave!
The product has improved significantly over the years, especially after the founders left and Yahoo was able to roll back some of the idiotic policy decisions that they'd previously set in stone.
It used to be that if you posted any pictures not taken with a physical camera, your account would be hellbanned, using the same moderation mechanism (NIPSA) used for people posting porn, and Yahoo has eliminated the practice. The site used to be terrible for actually browsing through photos because the founders still considered it to be primarily a social site and not a photo sharing site (it was originally a MMO called Game NeverEnding), and now Yahoo has ajaxified the photo pages for clicking through photos and finally boosted the default display size to be bigger than 400px. The founders said absolutely no to the idea of ever hosting digicam video clips, and now that they're all gone, Yahoo implemented 'long photos'.
Flickr is proof that Yahoo doesn't fuck everything up.
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#214Damn, I wish I had the money to make Yahoo an offer. I worked on a service in 2005 that was suppose to compete with del.icio.us, but our service never got off the ground. I've always admired the basic idea of del.icio.us, and I think there are a million interesting things that could be done with that site. Surely if Yahoo is shutting it down, they'd also be willing to sell it cheap? I wonder how cheap?
Yahoo could consider charging a basic fee. I might readily pay $5-10/Year for delicious. Actually I find delicious much more useful than FB or Twitter for my own needs, and it seems many more delicious users are like me.
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Cool. Do you have skills? Shoot me an email.
While I wouldn't want to discourage hacking and alternatives, that sounds like duplication of effort to me. What do you plan to do that http://pinboard.in/ isn't doing already?
Well how about an open and federated system - all alternative suggestions so far have been single sites owned by somebody else. If we could build a system which stores our data on our own server with the ability to connect to others then it would be far more sustainable - like status.net is to Twitter.
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#216The only yahoo service I use. And daily. Wo.
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just paid $7.02, and after that it became $7.03. Now it makes sense.
I'm paying 7.22. Office pool: predict the price at GMT 00:00 tonight. :)
They're going to have to cap it at some point, because it will become prohibitive. At 500,000 users it would be $500 to sign up.
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#220Also hiding in there: Altavista. Now there is a venerable piece of web real estate—fifteen years ago it was the place to go for web search. I didn't even know it was still around....
AltaVista claims to be "a business of Overture Services, Inc."