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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…
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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...
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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.
Wonder what the way is that is justified to the end users.
Am I missing something here?
It seems silly that they would just shut it down. Have they even tried to monetize it? I would pay ($50 a year) to continue to use Delicious. Maybe they can sell it?
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.
Side note: I've always wondered why Yahoo hasn't tapped into the vast amount of good data that is Delicious to supplement and improve their search engine? Talk about having access to a firehose.
Side side note: Seriously, what company does layoffs a week before Christmas!?
What's funny is that Delicious had changed their UI (again) recently, making it harder to save bookmarks with appropriate tags. It's as if the developers or managers don't actually use it themselves, or have no idea how large numbers of people are using it. So I've been looking around for an alternative. I've been using Diigo, though the UI (at least for the bookmarklet) is not all that much better. The comments here…
Any idea on how much money Yahoo's actually losing by just running Delicious? Side note: I've always wondered why Yahoo hasn't tapped into the vast amount of good data that is Delicious to supplement and improve their search engine? Talk about having access to a firehose. Side side note: Seriously, what company does layoffs a week before Christmas!?