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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
By the way, use this referral link (or any of your friends') to get 100 extra bookmarks: http://historio.us/referrals/NTEyICAgICAg/ You can do it yourself, in turn, to raise the limit up to 2000.
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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.
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.
the system was actually quite a bit larger than they ever talked about. millions of users, etc.
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…
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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.
Also 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." http://www.altavista.com/about/
Interesting choice of words: "sunset" instead of, say, "shut down". It's clearly a weasel word, and using a noun as a verb makes it all the more jarring. Say what you mean, Yahoo.
Weasel words may be used to detract from an uncomfortable fact, such as the act of firing staff. By replacing "firing staff" with "headcount reduction", one may soften meaning."
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…
Late to the party as usual...
Edit: Wow. Someone has to take this private. This is one hell of a valuable database. Yahoo must be staffed by gorillas if they're throwing away this kind of data.
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.
@idlewords: just make sure you're ready for the possible flood of new users. :)
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…
Why don't they spin it off into a startup? Just open-sourcing the code would be useless and even the data wouldn't hold its value for very long without the application and community continuing. But a startup would have a fighting chance to do something great with it.