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the system was actually quite a bit larger than they ever talked about. millions of users, etc.
Now that they're shutting it down, I would love to hear your thoughts as founder on why delicious didn't live up to its potential.
Ideas and startup goes to Yahoo to die.
Where's the best place to migrate all of your Del.icio.us bookmarks?
That being said, I also really like Pinboard :)
Anyone want to do a weekend hackathon with me and build a replacement? We could probably capitalize on delocios shutting down to get some traction.
Does anyone know if delicious' demise affects pinboard's API service in any way? Since pinboard's API documentation just links to delicious, now would be a good time to archive the delicious API documentation.
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…
Why do big companies shut down websites instead of selling them?
Where's the best place to migrate all of your Del.icio.us bookmarks?
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…