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Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
- joshu 16y agosad.
- revorad 16y agoCan you not get it back from them? Christmas gift to the world?
- samd 16y agoSorry Josh, it's them not you.
- rooshdi 16y agoSo sorry to hear this, but maybe this could open up new opportunities in the bookmarking market. To quote Seneca: "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
- wnoise 16y agoThank you for making it trivial to get my bookmarks out.
- kingsidharth 16y agoYou can't trust Yahoo! with your data or anything. They can shut-down anything.. anytime. Remember Geocitites?
- chrisaycock 16y agoI read your interview in Founders at Work a few years back, while I was a quant at a Morgan Stanley trading desk. Your story was so inspiring. I look forward to what you come out with next.
- kqr2 16y agoWhere's the best place to migrate all of your Del.icio.us bookmarks?
- eterps 16y agohttp://www.faviki.com http://www.faviki.com
- St-Clock 16y agoIs this still under development? The last blog post was in March 2010 and the website still says "beta".
- telemachos 16y agoI switched to Pinboard (http://pinboard.in 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.in/switch/ http://pinboard.in/switch/
- mccutchen 16y agoSeconded. I've been a happy Pinboard user since the service launched. Haven't had any trouble.
- mrduncan 16y agoThis 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
- colbyolson 16y agoIt will be sad to see Delicious go, if it indeed does. I would also like to point out http://pinboard.in/howto/#import http://pinboard.in/howto/#import
- pavs 16y agoIdeas and startup goes to Yahoo to die.
- dbeam 16y agoI 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.
- pavs 16y agoI 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.
- gojomo 16y agoI wish I could upvote your first paragraph and downvote your second paragraph.
- spenrose 16y agoNot just Yahoo: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/12/14/dont-buy-that-internet-company/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/12/14/dont-buy-th... "Big established companies with their own revenue streams simply don’t have the skillset needed to be the next Y Combinator" Of course, insofar as YC depends on acquisition, there's a problem there too.
- tsbaron 16y agoWhich is exactly why Groupon wisely backed away from a deal with Yahoo.
- w1ntermute 16y ago
- Ixiaus 16y agocurl https://{your username}:{your password}@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > bookmarks.xml
- mkr-hn 16y agoSettings -> Export / Backup Bookmarks
- seldo 16y agoNote: this exports as HTML. The XML export is arguably more useful.
- thinkzig 16y agohttps://secure.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export https://secure.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- armandososa 16y agoWouldn'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.
- bobds 16y ago
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- revorad 16y agoStavrosK, jump on this!
- citricsquid 16y agoHis service is very different, it'd be a shame if the service changed just to get in on this.
- revorad 16y agoOh ok, I didn't know it was different. I thought it's just a bookmarking app. In any case, importing delicious bookmarks would be helpful to everyone involved.
- notahacker 16y agoI'm probably going to try migrating my bookmarks over to historio.us. At the very least, a Delicious-themed landing page with a "how to migrate your bookmarks" and a few emails exchanged with bloggers who've lamented the loss of Delicious ought to draw a few more people's attention to StavrosK's site.
- bobds 16y agoI'll second that. What I really want though is something that will let me continue to use the Delicious extension for Firefox.
- kadavy 16y agoIt seems silly that they would just shut it down. Have they even tried to monetize it? I would pay ($50 a year) to continue to use Delicious. Maybe they can sell it?
- proee 16y agoAgree, why wouldn't you sell it even if only for a million dollars?
- ig1 16y agoIt 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 ?
- notahacker 16y agoTax 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.
- lotusleaf1987 16y agoAllthingsD is confirming that Del.icio.us will be shut down: http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101216/following-layoffs-yahoo-cuts-products-mybloglog-delicious-yahoo-buzz/ http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101216/following-layof...
- seldo 16y agoThe 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.
- joshu 16y agothe system was actually quite a bit larger than they ever talked about. millions of users, etc.
- seldo 16y agoNow 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.
- chunkbot 16y agoDelicious lived up to its founders' potential when it was acquired for millions.
- borism 16y agothat's ridiculous. potential of the company is not about who owns the stock or how much cash changed hands in the process. having been part of one particular exit I know all too well that startup founders and ex-employees have deep emotional connection to their former company, no matter how much they got for it.
- verysimple 16y agoJust 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?
- zoomzoom 16y agoWho makes a decision like this? The only reason I have a Yahoo account is for delicious.
- camiller 16y agoI have to admit, since I started using Xmarks I pretty much stopped using del.icio.us. My last addition to del.icio.us was July of 2008.
- gms 16y agoDelicious 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?
- kingsidharth 16y agoSame here. Instapaper is another one but I visit it once in a blue moon.
- gms 16y agoThere are a few starting points for solving the black hole problem. It's amazing how much Yahoo allowed it to atrophy.
- tlack 16y agoI was in the same group as you guys but lately I've started using Instapaper's Kindle export feature to read long articles (NYT, etc) on my Kindle. It's a really good experience. Try it out.
- kenjackson 16y agoDelicious is my bookmarking mechanism. I use it probably 20 times per day. Bummer about this.
- 100k 16y agoI use mine to keep track of tech links mostly. I do refer back when I need to find something I know I've bookmarked, especially if I can't remember how to Google for it.
- GrooveStomp 16y agoI find this happening to myself as well. I think it's the nature of tags vs a more visual paradigm.
- petercooper 16y agoI have 5919 bookmarks in there. But.. of course, it's just structured data, I could import it to other services and use it fine. The real loss here is how you can use it to analyze other people's bookmarks. Almost every page of any merit is tagged and in their system, just because Delicious is/was the biggest game in town. Wanna find HN links about Java? Try http://www.delicious.com/tag/hn+java http://www.delicious.com/tag/hn+java .. want a tutorial about making a game in Ruby? http://www.delicious.com/tag/ruby+tutorial+game http://www.delicious.com/tag/ruby+tutorial+game .. This is absurdly useful even though so few people know about it. It's been my secret weapon for 6 years now because I've always been able to find anything I could even partially remember just by coming up with the tags that might describe it :-(
- idlewords 16y agoIt's been a busy day over here.
- 100k 16y agoIt's a sad day to see an internet icon go down, but congrats to you and the pinboard team. I finally made the leap.
- St-Clock 16y agoYup, "The service is not available. Please try again later."
- idlewords 16y agoWe've been trying to figure that one out. No connection problems for the vast majority of people, but there are a couple who report this
- davi 16y agoIt happened to me the first time I tried to look at pinboard today. I'm on a satellite modem out in the middle of nowhere -- maybe a latency bug? Problem was gone when I tried a little later.
- colbyolson 16y agoI can confirm that I ran into this too. Went back to the homepage and tried again, worked.
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- calvinf 16y agoI bet. I looked at signing up, but the password field is plain text. What's up w/ that?
- idlewords 16y ago
- Keyframe 16y agoGoogle, buy del.icio.us from yahoo, please!
- iamwil 16y agoI wonder if it'd even be possible to donate it to some foundation that preserves influential websites. It'd be a pity to leave delicious and just trash it, instead of archiving it somewhere.
- adambyrtek 16y agoInternet Archive[1] is such a foundation. Most people know about the Wayback Machine, but they also preserve structured content like databases of URL shorteners[2]. This makes sense because the world doesn't need hundreds of shorteners, and I expect that most of them to disappear shortly (leaving dangling link behind). [1] http://www.archive.org/ http://www.archive.org/ [2] http://www.archive.org/details/301works http://www.archive.org/details/301works
- Complete 16y agoWhy do big companies shut down websites instead of selling them?
- verysimple 16y agobecause the management team can't bear to look real bad when the new owners succeed where they failed.
- Complete 16y agoAnd shareholders accept it, when their property gets thrown into the garbage can for this reason?
- bhudman 16y agoThis is sad. I use delicious daily, and I actually use it as a search engine - The ones that are most bookmarked is usually what I am looking for. Another advantage is that I can share links form multiple machines. I am avoiding chrome until they have something like noscript plugin (which will likely not happen) in firefox
- shrikant 16y agoMore money for Maciej. More features for Pinboard. More happiness for us early birds who got in at a sub $2 price :)
- nostromo 16y agoTime to back up those flickr photos.
- alex_h 16y agoAre 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
- pavel_lishin 16y agoI'd settle for a well-written perl/python script.
- jfb 16y agoSomeone will buy Flickr in the event of a total Yahoo! implosion.
- shrikant 16y agoFlickr at least has a decent revenue stream - http://www.zitzsolutions.com/2009/08/19/social-media-websites-who-is-making-what-insight-into-revenue-generation-572/ http://www.zitzsolutions.com/2009/08/19/social-media-website... The link is 1.5 years old, but (IMHO, and anecdotal) Flickr's growth has been steady since about then.
- blasdel 16y agoYahoo has actually put their full weight behind Flickr -- they even shut down their original Yahoo Photos site while Flickr was still smaller and forced the users to migrate or leave! The product has improved significantly over the years, especially after the founders left and Yahoo was able to roll back some of the idiotic policy decisions that they'd previously set in stone. It used to be that if you posted any pictures not taken with a physical camera, your account would be hellbanned, using the same moderation mechanism (NIPSA) used for people posting porn, and Yahoo has eliminated the practice. The site used to be terrible for actually browsing through photos because the founders still considered it to be primarily a social site and not a photo sharing site (it was originally a MMO called Game NeverEnding), and now Yahoo has ajaxified the photo pages for clicking through photos and finally boosted the default display size to be bigger than 400px. The founders said absolutely no to the idea of ever hosting digicam video clips, and now that they're all gone, Yahoo implemented 'long photos'. Flickr is proof that Yahoo doesn't fuck everything up.
- petercooper 16y agoPlease, Yahoo, distribute the final public-facing database for free. There are millions of links organized in there and it's an incredibly useful repository. If that data is lost, we just lost thousands of man years of tagging the Web.
- stretchwithme 16y agoor get the founders to take it over
- tocomment 16y agoUnfortunately 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.
- petercooper 16y agoBut Delicious's database is already public (if you take out private fields on the user table and the private links). Even just the links + tags without any user info would rock for semantic Web usage.
- sabat 16y agoIt's public right now. It won't be once Yahoo pulls the plug on Delicious.
- tocomment 16y agoAnyone want to do a weekend hackathon with me and build a replacement? We could probably capitalize on delocios shutting down to get some traction.
- shadowpwner 16y agoThis sounds interesting, and I'm starting my winter break at school here.
- tocomment 16y agoCool. Do you have skills? Shoot me an email.
- wyclif 16y agoWhile I wouldn't want to discourage hacking and alternatives, that sounds like duplication of effort to me. What do you plan to do that http://pinboard.in/ http://pinboard.in/ isn't doing already?
- kaerast 16y agoWell how about an open and federated system - all alternative suggestions so far have been single sites owned by somebody else. If we could build a system which stores our data on our own server with the ability to connect to others then it would be far more sustainable - like status.net is to Twitter.
- elg0nz 16y agoI'm a Python developer in the valley. You choose a coffee shop and let's get hacking.
- tocomment 16y agoI'm in Dc bro :-(
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- coverband 16y agoI am a heavy del.icio.us user today. What alternative bookmarking site should I switch to that supports tagging?
- wyclif 16y agohttp://pinboard.in/ http://pinboard.in/
- joe_the_user 16y agoIs there a reason they can't sell it?
- umjames 16y agoWell there goes months' (nights & weekends) worth of iOS side project work down the drain. I have a very large delicious bookmark collection that I was still posting to as of this week. 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.
- StavrosK 16y agoOh, no need to worry! http://cache.historious.net/cached/841175/ http://cache.historious.net/cached/841175/
- lkrubner 16y agoDamn, I wish I had the money to make Yahoo an offer. I worked on a service in 2005 that was suppose to compete with del.icio.us, but our service never got off the ground. I've always admired the basic idea of del.icio.us, and I think there are a million interesting things that could be done with that site. Surely if Yahoo is shutting it down, they'd also be willing to sell it cheap? I wonder how cheap?
- citricsquid 16y agoHackernews weekend project? PG and his money, users and their skills :p
- aurora72 16y agoYahoo could consider charging a basic fee. I might readily pay $5-10/Year for delicious. Actually I find delicious much more useful than FB or Twitter for my own needs, and it seems many more delicious users are like me.
- neworbit 16y agoHell, I would make Yahoo an offer. Or I'd syndicate with other HN readers. Anyone game? Anyone know who at Yahoo to sell this to? My initial thought would be something along the lines of a 20% profit share for the next three years, guarantee at least $2M over that term, 5% equity in the new firm.
- yesimnathan 16y agoI guess I'll have no more use for my yahoo ID.
- Shengster 16y agoI really have to think hard about which products from Yahoo! that I actually use. I used to have a Yahoo! email account, but Gmail came along and blew it out of the water. Aside from Flickr, all Yahoo! is useful for now is checking the latest sports scores. I remember as a kid back in the 90s, Yahoo! was the place to go if you ever needed to find something. That's been heavily supplanted by Google now. Hearing about the recent layoffs is pretty depressing. Is Yahoo! ever going to recover?
- Jun8 16y agoNoooo! 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.
- delano 16y agoI haven't tried it yet, but people say good things about http://historio.us/ http://historio.us/ The founder is on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605908 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605908
- Matti 16y agoI upgraded to a paid Historious account a couple of days ago and I just imported all of my 4000+ bookmarks from Delicious. What drew me to historio.us was the caching: I love the fact that all my bookmarks are cached.(1) Lately I've been trying to cut down on the information I consume so the lack of 'social' features doesn't really bother me -- right now I'm more interested in retaining the stuff that I've already bookmarked than in finding new stuff to read. (1) It looks like pinboard.in has the same function for about the same yearly price.
- idlewords 16y agoWe do have the same feature, but unlike historious we actually store the bookmark content. See http://pinboard.in/blog/153/ http://pinboard.in/blog/153/
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- StavrosK 16y agoAt historious, this is a core feature (you don't have to pay to get it). Even for the free accounts, every single bookmark will be cached with the optional ability to be published for your reference (the URL never changes, so you can give it to people).
- meattle 16y agoIf you're looking for a Delicious alternative, then also worth checking out is: http://www.shareaholic.com/services http://www.shareaholic.com/services (a list of over 50 bookmarking services)
- dbingham 16y agoWhat 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?
- Dramatize 16y agoI've gone to use Delicious several times but stopped short at the login screen. There's no way I'm going to use a service when I have to create a Yahoo account. Same goes with Flickr.
- philfreo 16y agoThis is really annoying... I have over 3000 bookmarks on del.icio.us all nicely tagged, nice browser plugins, use it every day, etc. Definitely hoping to find an alternative that isn't a step backwards...
- jules 16y agoWhat do you want from a bookmark service on top of bookmarking+sync?
- philfreo 16y agoI don't even need sync, honestly. I just want the features of delicious, and I want to be able to trust that it won't go down. The features I care most about: 1. good browser integration - even through bookmarklets 2. good tagging system 3. ability to search my own stuff like http://www.delicious.com/philfreo/git+tutorial http://www.delicious.com/philfreo/git+tutorial 4. ability to search lots of other peoples bookmarks 5. reliable 6. portability (so I know I can export and move elsewhere) Basically, I want delicious to stay alive...
- ralphc 16y agoI've signed up for Pinboard, it has most of what you want - 3 is http://pinboard.in/u:philfreo/t:git/t:tutorial http://pinboard.in/u:philfreo/t:git/t:tutorial. What concerns me is the 4, due to the proverbial "network effects", delicious was so good for searching others' bookmarks because so many people were using it. I'm afraid there won't be a clearcut "winner" that everyone uses, the "go to" place to look for links.
- blahedo 16y agoAlso hiding in there: Altavista. Now there is a venerable piece of web real estate—fifteen years ago it was the place to go for web search. I didn't even know it was still around....
- kongqiu 16y agoHow much would you reckon the Altavista name all by itself would fetch? I could see people 20 years from now buying those as "collectors' items" a la antiques or baseball cards...
- ams6110 16y agoAltaVista claims to be "a business of Overture Services, Inc." http://www.altavista.com/about/ http://www.altavista.com/about/
- SteveMorin 16y agoIt is and Overture was acquired by Yahoo!
- djacobs 16y agoOne reason I don't sign up with every new startup that comes along--even if they're innovative and helpful and better than the competition--is that I don't want to invest time in something that could fail. And every time I see a web service fail, even if it was no longer a startup, I lose hope that good services can last. Seeing this, for example, I'm not likely to put stock in an online bookmarking startup any time soon. It seems to me like this is one way that the failure of large companies can lead to the failure of unrelated startups. And it sucks.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoSo how do you decide what to sign up for?
- djacobs 16y agoIt varies. I'd be lying if I said mood wasn't involved. But I ask questions like: 1. How responsive are the startup founders when I e-mail them about problems? 2. How portable is the work I'm going to put into the site? Data portability is actually probably my number 1 concern. 3. Does the service give me value that I couldn't create with my own server after an hour of coding? (Why would I sign up for yet another contacts service when I can host my own LDAP server for free?) 4. Is there a vibrant community supporting the startup from the get to? At least these are the first that come to mind.
- StavrosK 16y agoIt seems pretty safe: you can always export your data if you want.
- djacobs 16y agoIn 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.
- ronnier 16y agoI have a been working on a replacement http://toadjaw.com http://toadjaw.com but haven't opened it up to the public. It allows importing from delicious.com. Anybody interested in using it?
- DevX101 16y agoOpen 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.
- harryf 16y ago+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.
- smithian 16y agoToo easy to game. 2 weeks later there would be someone selling lists of links to import to increase your chances of getting a job offer/interview.
- alexqgb 16y agoYahoo! keeps saying it's a content company. Given what they knew via delicious, it seems like a competent production group could have noted the top marks in any category, figured out why they were so successful, then combined them into a product with commercial value, either licensing he content directly, or commissioning the original authors to develop their ideas on Yahoo's dime, then subdividing this nicely vetted material by proven authors for use across a range or properties (e.g. photography related stuff in Flickr, investing references in Yahoo! finance, etc.)
- unicornporn 16y agoI just exported my bookmarks from Delicious. The resulting html file was 5.5 MB. I guess that tells how much I've actually used Delicious. Sad to see it go...
- to 16y agois there any contact for interested buyers? (serious) sent e-mail to delicious and yahoo - if anyone knows a quicker contact let me know! THANKS!
- JamesNK 16y agoTime to move my bookmarks from Delicious. Google Bookmarks looks like a possibility. I don't care that it doesn't have the social thing and I want something with good browser integration. Does anyone have an working instructions for migrating to Google Bookmarks? Most sites refer to this page which appears to be broken - http://persistent.info/delicious2google/ http://persistent.info/delicious2google/
- kirubakaran 16y agoAutomatically backup your Delicious bookmarks here : http://www.favbot.com/import-delicious.html http://www.favbot.com/import-delicious.html OAuth import will be up soon.
- adambyrtek 16y agoIf you just want to download the bookmarks you can simply execute $ curl https://user:pass@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all https://user:pass@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > delicious.xml I was running it from cron to do daily backups. EDIT: I've just noticed that somebody has already posted a similar command, so sorry for a duplicate.
- kirubakaran 16y agoThat will just get you the data. Favbot makes it available online.
- fs111 16y agoIn case you use the firefox extension, you already have a full copy of your bookmarks in the ybookmarks.sqlite file in your firefox profile.
- DanielRibeiro 16y agoDiigo, Stubmleupon, Xmarks. Many alternatives. Are they any good when it comes to tagging and browser integration?
- lepht 16y agoIn short: No. I've used Diigo and Xmarks, and they don't cut it. Would love to be proven wrong, but even the "people's champion" here, pinboard, doesn't even approach the usability or functionality of delicious. There's no first party Chrome extension. The best third party one, felicious, doesn't do tag completion much less suggested tags. The latency between adding a bookmark and having felicious show it is atrocious, even with 'auto-sync' enabled. Ugh.
- mark_l_watson 16y agoI just exported my bookmarks with tags. Inconvenient, but not too bib of a deal. The worse thing is that I used to share my bookmarks with other people - have to work out another way to do that now.
- jmboling 16y agodelicious should have marketed itself to the mainstream as a search engine with a 100% human curated database
- jamesbritt 16y agoLooks like Pinboard has gotten popular. "Due to massive traffic today, imports may take a while to complete. Sorry for the delay!"
- ra 16y agoI would pay $5 a month for delicious
- phillian 16y agoRegardless of whether or not Del.icio.us is being shut down, Blake Irving's reaction to his screencast being "leaked" was completely uncalled for: http://twitter.com/Blakei/status/15488532072103936 http://twitter.com/Blakei/status/15488532072103936 "@bpm140 @joshu Really dude? Can't wait to find out how you got the web cast. Whoever it is, gone!"
- yogsototh 16y agoThe day Yahoo bought delicious I immediately switched to Magnolia first and now I use diigo and I am _really_ happy with it for a long time now.
- mmaunder 16y agoOn the one hand it's sad to see technology that many people were (and are) passionate about get axed like this. But on the other hand it frees up space for innovators to come in and implement even better versions of products that have proven traction. Shameless plug: I run http://feedjit.com/ http://feedjit.com/ and our core product is very similar to mybloglog, so while it's sad to see what Scott and his team built get cut like this, it opens up opportunity for us and we are very passionate about the space.
- jamesbritt 16y agoWhat's funny is that Delicious had changed their UI (again) recently, making it harder to save bookmarks with appropriate tags. It's as if the developers or managers don't actually use it themselves, or have no idea how large numbers of people are using it. So I've been looking around for an alternative. I've been using Diigo, though the UI (at least for the bookmarklet) is not all that much better. The comments here about Pinboard, though, motivated me to go sign up. I figure, better now than later after the exodus drives the cost up. :)
- joshu 16y agothis was the major problem with a lot of the development.
- Tichy 16y agoDumb question, but couldn't they try to sell it again? Is that never an option, once a startup has been bought? I realize they probably have added some Yahoo specific stuff, like single sign on, so disentangling it might be too costly?
- wiseleo 16y agoIt wouldn't be that bad. A yahoo ID can be used as OpenID.
- Tichy 16y agoWhat bookmarking service, if any, is everybody using these days?
- haploid 16y agoThese days I use this thing called a browser. It has bookmarking functionality built in. The entire value proposition of logging into a website in order to bookmark other websites is lost on me. I wish I could grok the value, but I can't.
- Tichy 16y agoNot that I've been using it, but for one thing there is sync of bookmarks across browsers. Another value proposition of delicious was discovery of new sites through social tagging, I suppose.
- jgilliam 16y agoThere is a Twitter petition to Yahoo getting a lot of action: http://act.ly/2ul http://act.ly/2ul
- wiseleo 16y agoOver 1000+ retweets by now
- wslh 16y agoWelcome to the Cloud! Seriously, companies must take responsibility for the data. It's important to note that delicious also has private bookmarks so it's not possible to just backup the repository and distribute it. In my opinion the best way to solve this is to set up an auction for the "delicious asset".
- davidw 16y agoWell shit... I use that data for langpop.com :-/
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- fleitz 16y agoThey should just put their logo into the sunset column and be done with it. Yang pooched the only hope they had of returning their shareholders money.
- binaryfinery 16y agoThe only yahoo service I use. And daily. Wo.
- ffffruit 16y agoI don't get it - Yahoo is shutting down a service where humans are obsessively tagging a shitload of handpicked URL from the abyss that is the internet these days and they cannot figure out a way to keep this alive? Am I missing something here?
- proee 16y agoWhy can't they sell it? I'm assuming there is a buy with the amount of traffic and user-base? I don't understand why they would shut it down.
- kloncks 16y agoAny idea on how much money Yahoo's actually losing by just running Delicious? Side note: I've always wondered why Yahoo hasn't tapped into the vast amount of good data that is Delicious to supplement and improve their search engine? Talk about having access to a firehose. Side side note: Seriously, what company does layoffs a week before Christmas!?
- StavrosK 16y agoYahoo :(
- MichaelMassing 16y agoBesides the Christmas timing, Yahoo quite recently upgraded the Delicious servers. Apart from whatever capital expense was involved, the occupation of the Delicious team in implementing the migration might have left them with the impression that they had a future. It's impossible to know in a corporation who knows what and who's blowing smoke for the company. Still, the tenor of pre-layoff comments from the team in their unusually candid support forum suggests that at least some of them were totally blindsided.
- 1336 16y agoInteresting choice of words: "sunset" instead of, say, "shut down". It's clearly a weasel word, and using a noun as a verb makes it all the more jarring. Say what you mean, Yahoo.
- 1336 16y agoFor the downvoters: Weasel words may be used to detract from an uncomfortable fact, such as the act of firing staff. By replacing "firing staff" with "headcount reduction", one may soften meaning." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word#In_business http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word#In_business
- awa 16y agoQuestion: I know how can i get a html file for all the links. Can I get a text file with just the list of urls
- elrodeo 16y agoFirst 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.
- dopkew 16y agoI am a user of MyVidoop and Delicious. Both were very good concepts. By the way Vidoop has been acquired by Confident Technologies, Inc.
- sireat 16y agoVery sad news. At least, delicious has the export option. 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.
- dopkew 16y agoSome alternate bookmarking services... Google Bookmarks, Pinboard, Historious, Diigo, Netvouz, Favbot, Favilous, Licorize, Wonderpage, Wheatt, Wajam, Markr, Xmarks. Please add others which I may have missed...
- famblycat 16y agoI'm looking to move my bookmarks somewhere else. But frankly this has really soured me on trusting anyone with them. I want them to be 'in the cloud' so I can access them from everywhere, but also under my control. Does anyone know if there are any apps available out there which I can install on my own hosting and can serve as a bookmark manager? 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.
- u48998 16y agoIs there a way to use Dropbox to keep/run bookmarks from cloud? I am assuming with the latest version, I should be able to selectively backup Firefox bookmarks. I would then only be missing RSS feed (if only people would come up with the way to provide local RSS ability to average users).
- atlei 16y agoSo I guess they don't make enough money on it, then ? 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 !!!!"...
- theklub 16y agoHow did this website not make enough off of ad revenue? You know exactly what the users are looking for..
- epo 16y agoAnd here is the US government's answer to wikileaks. Get Yahoo! to acquire them, they'd be marginalised and then shut down in months.