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First Google Wave, now Delicious. I was using both of them. That Delicious will probably shutdown is bad enough. But WHAT IS WITH ALL OF MY CAREFULLY TAGGED BOOKMARKS? Even if I can export them somehow, what I'm gonna do with them? Now that's exactly why I am -- and always was -- against webapps and my data being in a cloud.
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If Yahoo is actually shutting it down, would you want to buy it back from them?
He wouldn't want to buy it for a price they acquired it at or more. 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.
Google Bookmarks, Pinboard, Historious, Diigo, Netvouz, Favbot, Favilous, Licorize, Wonderpage, Wheatt, Wajam, Markr, Xmarks.
Please add others which I may have missed...
I already have a personal wiki for my notes and lists, but I'm looking for something a bit more specialized for bookmarks. I like the concept of tagging my bookmarks, which a wiki doesn't offer.
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Yes, but there's some major differences between bookmarking and searching. The fact that the majority of users are naturally dependent on searching means there's (obviously) massive exposure to eyes and wallets, and there always has been. Whether that exposure could be turned into profits was what was questioned in the 90s. Bookmarking is different. I'm going to offend some people here by whipping out my anecdotal ev…
It needs to be combined with something else. Imagine if hn or reedit knew which pages you like because they host your bookmarks. The homepage could be completely tailored to you, and now users have a reason to visit often and there is advertiser real-estate.
I wish the general attitude would change to "I'm willing to pay for services that I find useful" instead of "Everything should be free !!!!"...
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Especially when you look at the vast number of unprofitable products they offer. (Pipes and YQL come to mind)
Pipes is a great example, with even more of a niche audience than any of the non-profitable Google products I can think of, aside from maybe Refine.
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Pipes is a great example, with even more of a niche audience than any of the non-profitable Google products I can think of, aside from maybe Refine.
Who's to say Pipes isn't getting the axe either?
(Yahoo is.)