I guess I'll have no more use for my yahoo ID.
Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
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#82The 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.
This has mentioned many times over the years, but looking at the slide, I see they were maintaining both del.icio.us and Yahoo! Bookmarks to the end.
The outcome is not entirely surprising.
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#83Time to back up those flickr photos.
Are there any photo services offering an import from Flickr? I imagine it would be good business to offer one, playing to the fear of a complete Yahoo implosion. Although I admit it's highly unlikely Flickr will go the way of Delicious
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Just because Yahoo's expectation$ weren't met doesn't mean delicious didn't live up to its potential. Many people got accustomed to use it as a search engine and it fulfilled its purpose quite nicely. Imagine if facebook couldn't figure out a way to make money, would it then be considered a failure even though millions of people find it useful?
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#85Noooo! 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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#86Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
#87The 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…
So true. Delicious would always be my go-to place for anything I ever wanted to know about Oracle. For years I'd search delicious before even searching google or metalink. It's a shame that this is being closed.
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#88What are the chances we can talk Google into buying it? I just started using it and it's beyond amazingly useful!
I don't want to lose the ability to save bookmarks this way.
Is there anything out there on the web that duplicates the functionality?
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#90curl 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.