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Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by mrduncan »

telemachos wrote: post #7
kqr2 wrote: post #3

Where's the best place to migrate all of your Del.icio.us bookmarks?

I switched to Pinboard ( http://pinboard.in ) in April and I highly recommend it. It's not free, but it's well worth looking at. (The pricing is a one-time fee that climbs as the site grows. It's currently $6.89. There's also a service to archive your bookmarks, but I haven't tried that. That's $25 a year currently.) Here's their (probably about to be updated) "Should you switch from Delicious?" page: http://pinboard…

This has to be great news for Pinboard - I'm not sure how much they raise the price with each purchase, but less than 30 minutes later and the current price is already $6.92.

Edit: 7 minutes later it's now $6.94

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by gms »

kingsidharth wrote: post #30
gms wrote: post #26

Delicious is a black hole for me. I have 95 bookmarks, and once something is bookmarked with it, I never visit it later. Is this unique to me?

Same here. Instapaper is another one but I visit it once in a blue moon.

There are a few starting points for solving the black hole problem. It's amazing how much Yahoo allowed it to atrophy.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by notahacker »

ig1 wrote: post #18

It seems a bit crazy that they're shutting down services like delicious and especially Uproar (which is actually in a growth market!). I'd be shocked if there aren't other tech companies interested in buying the tech, the userbase and the employees (who've just be made redundant presumably at some expense). What's the justification to shareholders to shutting down as opposed to selling ?

Tax writeoffs, I'd assume. And perhaps the long term possibility of a more innovative owner taking advantage of Delicious' neglected potential and making Yahoo look incompetent would be even more damaging than just admitting the service doesn't make any money.

I find it hard to believe that Delicious would have no value to anyone at a fire-sale price.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by pavs »

dbeam wrote: post #23
pavs wrote: post #8

Ideas and startup goes to Yahoo to die.

I personally believe that without big players like Yahoo!, many ideas would not become startups because there'd be no exit strategy nor funding. @pavs - Where do you work that's better? What ideas have come out of it that are even worthy of having a Hacker News thread? What products do you work on that people love so much they're distraught with a mention of them not existing? Link me, :D.

I have to work somewhere better in order for me to criticize a sinkhole that is yahoo? What kind of argument is that? If you must know, I am self employed.

> I personally believe that without big players like Yahoo!, many ideas would not become startups because there'd be no exit strategy nor funding.

That has nothing to do with anything I have said.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by Groxx »

mrduncan wrote: post #31
telemachos wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to Pinboard ( http://pinboard.in ) in April and I highly recommend it. It's not free, but it's well worth looking at. (The pricing is a one-time fee that climbs as the site grows. It's currently $6.89. There's also a service to archive your bookmarks, but I haven't tried that. That's $25 a year currently.) Here's their (probably about to be updated) "Should you switch from Delicious?" page: http://pinboard…

This has to be great news for Pinboard - I'm not sure how much they raise the price with each purchase, but less than 30 minutes later and the current price is already $6.92. Edit: 7 minutes later it's now $6.94

It's 1/10 of a cent. So $6.94 means there are 6,940 people using it.

http://pinboard.in/help/fee/ (normally in a "why?" popup when you would make a new account)

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by joshu »

seldo wrote: post #21

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.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

#38

Post by 100k »

mrduncan wrote: post #31
telemachos wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to Pinboard ( http://pinboard.in ) in April and I highly recommend it. It's not free, but it's well worth looking at. (The pricing is a one-time fee that climbs as the site grows. It's currently $6.89. There's also a service to archive your bookmarks, but I haven't tried that. That's $25 a year currently.) Here's their (probably about to be updated) "Should you switch from Delicious?" page: http://pinboard…

This has to be great news for Pinboard - I'm not sure how much they raise the price with each purchase, but less than 30 minutes later and the current price is already $6.92. Edit: 7 minutes later it's now $6.94

It's number of users * $0.001.
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