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It seems pretty safe: you can always export your data if you want.
In this case, yes. But not for all types of startups. When I say I won't "put stock" in another bookmarking service for a while, I don't mean I won't use one. I mean I won't use one like I would if I thought it was a permanent, reliable fixture.
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the system was actually quite a bit larger than they ever talked about. millions of users, etc.
If Yahoo is actually shutting it down, would you want to buy it back from them?
He can't offer them a price that is lower than that.
It wouldn't take that much more effort to build the whole thing all over again, anyway.
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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...
You can't write a simple scraper that is not distributed in 100 of machines across the web to pull out their 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.
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Since the "it's not free but..." angle has already been played I'll add to kqr2's question... Where are the best free places to migrate all of your Delicious bookmarks? ------EDIT--- OK, at a minimum you can go here: https://secure.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export and download your entire collection (importantly... with tags). This will at least preserve your content and, since I think many of us on HN are of…
http://historio.us/ is free (if you have fewer than 300 bookmarks). I don't think you'll find a totally free solution, as that's basically why delicious is closing :(
Open question: How could Yahoo have monetized delicious? I'll start: Use the browser plugin to deliver highly targeted but low profile ads to users. The targeting would be based on the longitudinal interest data they have for millions of users, many of whom have been tagging their interests for months or years. For active users, I think this data is better than facebook targeting info.
+10! Another angle; recruitment, at least for software developers. For active users, del.icio.us is one of best reflections of your skillset out there, with the exception of github. Potential employers or headhunters pay to search for matching profiles.
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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…
> Yahoo has no spine Yahoo has no vision, and now they are too busy chasing their own tails with respect to all the bad press they are getting surrounding their layoffs, lack of technology and utter failure in trending technology.
I understand turn arounds take time but such decisions are going to lead to nowhere.
curl https://{your username}:{your password}@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > bookmarks.xml
Wouldn't be neat that somebody offered to backup this information? They can have something like "donate your bookmarks" and I'll upload my full export.
For someone with almost 9000 bookmarks it came out to 1.7MB .html file. (and yes, tags are in the source)
I wasn't using Delicious to full extent, as my needs were simple, just cross browser, cross platform, cross machine bookmark service.
Will have to check out Pinboard, Historious and other alternatives mentioned in this thread.