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Yahoo! To Close Delicious
Thwomp writes "A leaked internal presentation from Yahoo shows that Delicious, the popular bookmark sharing site, will be wound down. According to Daring Fireball's John Gruber the whole team was let go just yesterday. It appears that Delicious is just one of the services in Yahoo's portfolio that is going the way of the Dodo."
Tech Crunch and All Things D. Sounds like the Yahoo folks aren't too happy about the word leaking out - "whoever it is, gone!
... HO-HO-HO! ;-)
With Yahoo shutting down Del.icio.us, where will we bookmark things such as these delicious Christmas Lights
Hulk SMASH Celiac Disease
There are no words.
According to Daring Fireball's John Gruber the whole team was let go just yesterday.
Merry Xmas from Yahoo.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
As far as social bookmarking sites go I think StumbleUpon was a clear favorite, though Digg and Reddit seemed to be very similar to how Delicious was setup, I wonder who will "win" in the end...actually, I really don't care.
Ave Molech Setting
Let's hope Yahoo will buy facebook next
This leaves a bad taste in my mouth
I hadn't heard of it anyway - it looks like just a collection of random links people post; kinda like slashdot except without the banal comments. WTF? Guess I'll make a clone and sell it to Google next year, muahahaha!
I like delicious and the FF toolbar to manage all of my bookmarks. Can we have some replacement suggestions?
Keep the Classic Slashdot.
Some of the 600 cut from Yahoo, I guess. Not too surprises how many bookmarking/aggregating sites do you need?
Best of luck to them, tough economy out there.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
You mean hunted into extinction because they were Delicious?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
should be about dl.dropbox.com
Canning an entire dept right before xmas? Rough.
WTF??? I use delicious to manage all my bookmarks. Will they be offering a zip download compatible with other bookmarking services? I darn well hope so.
Yahoo must have decided the bad publicity of making people redundant right before Christmas was still less than the cost of keeping them on the payroll for one more month.
Low, Yahoo!
Why? :-(
Free Manning, jail Obama.
bend over for corporate interest, and make sure you don't rely on services that someone else owns (free or paid). Never mind those "institutions" that used to make the web worthwhile. Instead, accept the rule of RoI. The web is free (hands off my beer, though!) - as long as the equity return is two-digit and rises every ye^z^z month. Exponentially. As we all know, there is such a thing as exponential growth, and it just keeps going... . And it's gonna make us rich. Or someone ... or... some shareholder, or... ok not those that do the actual _work_ but... I dunno. Please ignore this rant while I eat soap.
I actually use delicious. I find it helpful for bookmarking and looking up sites based on my tags. I guess I'll allow google to handle another internet service for me now?
Its one of those great internet tools that millions of people use but generates zero revenue (I'm guessing of course but I don't see where any revenue comes from with this).
Any browser can export bookmarks to any other browser, import perfectly, via html.
It is beginning to be a problem that Yahoo is dying slowly. First, they started compressing pictures that used to be fullsized in their popular "Groups" 10 years ago. Then, they started removing Briefcases. Last year, I had to review my Geocities files for anything important before they removed it. This year, their Hotjobs service got merged with Monster.com, so I'll lose my account there too.
I use Yahoo mail to get around the all-too-popular mailbox purge that the more "hip" webmails use. That is to avoid being forced into a paywall when I stop checking mail. Seeing that they are downsizing and the frequency of their cuts is increasing, I'm have to move all 12 years' worth of my mail and profile data elsewhere before it dies. I don't want it to be warningless like when WHQuestion closed down and everyone migrated to KnowPost but lost all their pictures, answers and intersting conversations with other great minds. I don't want my posts and attachments here to go the same way. Sadly, two more years like that and Yahoo will surely be dead, like Altavista. Funny thing is, I just found out Yahoo owns them now. Acquisitions don't always mean the old clients stay with the new boss, which might be Google or something, and my data will be open for a greater evil then.
Now that I think about my knowledge of Facebook, wiping Yahoo data now won't help keep it safe; "delete" doesn't exist when there's money to be made off of my time.
You're kidding, right?
I don't see why people are surprised about this. Web 2.0 sites just aren't truly profitable. The value they deliver is extremely minor compared to the massive infrastructure costs needed to keep many of them going. In any other industry, such a "business" would be shut down really quickly.
This is the dumbest move I see Yahoo doing, for shutting down the only Yahoo product left that is ACTUALLY USEFUL. (besides Flickr, but I don't use it anyway)
Seriously I am horrified and disappointed if this decision is for real. I have over 300 bookmarks stored in Delicious, and Delicious has been an extremely useful search engine for me. Because the search is based on social tagging that has gone through by human mind, Delicious is far more powerful than even Google for generic terms search, especially for single term queries that are too generic to return any useful results from other search engines. I don't know why such a useful site has become so less popular, but I believe it is just largely due to the lack of marketing and ignorance by Yahoo since the acquisition.
So far I don't know any other social bookmarking site that is better than Delicious. Perhaps I should start searching, but if anyone here in Slashdot knows one, please do tell me.
Anyway for those who are desperate like me to backup their Delicious bookmarks, here is the export link.
Delicious has served me well in the past few years, but I guess it's time to move on.
My bookmarks and tag cloud are being exported to the competing Diigo as we speak.
From looking at the leaked slide, they are getting rid of Altavista which has more meaning for me. Delicious as just another Web 2.0 company, but Altavista was an early pioneer on the web and could have easily been what Google is now.
I've had a yahoo mail account longer than any other web-mail account, but I haven't used it so much recently (gmail has a much better user-interface). Still, I like to keep it around for various reasons.
I logged into it for the first time in half a year yesterday, and ... it tells me "Your account has been made dormant due to inactivity of over 4 months. All your mail has been deleted."
Oh. Thanks yahoo!
Though I'm sure that policy makes sense to the accountants ("they were just using up our disk space and not generating us any income!"), it says an awful lot about their attitude towards their users.
(and wtf, 4 months?! That's a long vacation!)
We live, as we dream -- alone....
I think you mean Yoo-hoo too close to delicious.
I use XMarks to synchronize across different computers and browsers. They were actually going to shut down next month, but an outpouring of support from users convinced LastPass it would be worth buying the company and setting up a freemium model (basic service is free, you can pay for extras). Free accounts get automatic bookmark sync and online access to the bookmarks from other browsers. Premium accounts add Android & iPhone apps, tab sync, and a couple of other things.
Most web browsers have some sort of biult-in sync service these days, though of course it only works if you use the same browser on every computer.
Firefox 4 adds a built-in sync service.
Chrome and Opera both have built-in sync services.
Safari has some sort of sync service, but I think it might be part of mobile.me or whatever Apple is calling their online offering these days.
Not sure about IE, but I'd bet there's a Windows Live bookmarking service by now.
Quote From Daring Firewhatnot:
"It’s almost hard to remember now, but just a few short years ago, Yahoo was the place for hot startups to find a home."
You mean Yahoo was the company with money to burn buying into hokey startups (exception for Delicious and a *few* others I'm sure).
Let's create the web3.0 where we run the services ourselves and share the information in a P2P manner!
This is what you get for not relying on yourself (aka services you pay for or are responsible for).
This further suggests the dangers of relying on a service where the source code (or even a binary) is not available for you to self host!
Hurrah! A great example of why self sufficiency still matters!
Nothing says success like jettisoning every non-essential part of your portfolio and abandoning your greatest assets -- staff -- a week before Christmas.
I have been using del.icio.us for years - I actually have a fair amount of stuff in it.
Guess I will have to figure out how to reclaim that. I added a couple of sites just this week.
Too bad, all of the "cool" stuff just gets left for dead by these companies. If yahoo fucks with Flickr, we will have to have words, I use that thing all the time.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I didn't want to use del.icio.us, because by the time I started using social bookmarking, it was already owned by Yahoo!, and I specifically wanted something that might have been independent.
So I started using ma.gnolia. Awesome, fast service with nice little features and general Web 2.0-friendliness all around. They just failed to make working backups. Boom.
So I started using Twine. Leet folksonomic RDF-what-the-fuckery. Slowish. Yawn. Never quite figured out if it was possible to import bookmarks there. And by the time I started sort of getting interested of what other features the service supported, the thing got bought out. So much for that thing.
So I started using Simpy. An old service. No frills, but also rather fast, and rather well-functional. Did exactly what I wanted it to do. Even let me download a backup of the bookmarks if or when I wanted to. I said "yeah, whatever, I'll take a look at it later on" and wandered off. Surely this service wouldn't get off the net while I was away for a while? Wrong! They got eaten by fucking Reuters and shut down. Why? Why? Millions of victims demand answers, Reuters.
At this point, a few little doubts had started to come to my mind about the whole social bookmarking idea. People said "Ha ha! That's what you'll get for not doing the logical thing and using Delicious! We're old, we're established, we're a known brand. Yahoo! can't possibly kill us."
*sigh* *rueful headshake*
Folks, if you want a good example of my favourite Web 2.0 services, look at GitHub, because GitHub demands that you make local backups of your stuff, and you can migrate your stuff on another Git host in 5 seconds flat for whatever damn reason you happen to have in your head. Why can't we do the same thing to other Web 2.0 sites?
Do we have any actual sources other than a random blogger, a random tweet from a random twit, and a friend of a friend?
Digg is collapsing.
I think when the redesign came out, it was clear Digg was already dead.
Make sure everyone's vote counts: Verified Voting
Your bookmarks and data will be "safe" in the cloud.
If this is not a tailor-made argument for not trusting cloud-based services, I don't know what is. I don't care how "do no evil" your corporation-of-choice is; you're in their playground. They make the rules and break the rules at their whim (or the government's whim).
Export your bookmarks while you still can: curl --user petsounds:sebad0h -o delicious_bookmarks.xml -O 'https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all'
Can you think of a better time to do it? That's some bonus checks that didn't get inked. The savings probably went straight to the CEO's belly.
Yahoo to close! Delicious.
Export your bookmarks while you still can: curl --user petsounds:sebad0h -o delicious_bookmarks.xml -O 'https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all'
Sir, I pasted your command on my terminal and it works but all the bookmarks looks weird! I had 500 bookmarks but it only shown 21 here, and I don't remember bookmarking any forum called NeoGAF. NOOOO is my bookmarks all lost?? How do I do now?? Can someone help me plzzz!!!
Oh wait, sorry is that YOUR bookmarks, Sir?
You don't even have to ascribe evil intent here. All companies eventually die (except for banks that are "too big to fail", that is). Why trust your computing resources to an entity that might last as long as you?
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
<result code="access denied"/>
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fe07.api.del.ac4.yahoo.net uncompressed/chunked Fri Dec 17 01:28:29 UTC 2010
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Aawww....
Yup, paste fail. Sadly slashdot still doesn't allow post-submission editing.
Just look it up the delicious tag and you get 269086 Bookmarks!
As someone who pays for webhosting, I'm curious if there have been any decent open source del.icio.us variants created. I've used the site for years, but I could just as easily bookmark this stuff myself if I could just get some code running on my own site.
I guess I could code one if I need to. The social networking/web2.0 aspect of seeing what "the community" is bookmarking wasn't much of a draw for me so much as the multi-tag, shared-between-all-my-computers aspects were.
It makes a bit of a difference whether you actually pay for a cloud based service or not. If something is free, you can't really complain when it goes away. Gift horse, mouth, etc.
IMHO that's when they stuck some hollywood exec (Semel) in who knew nothing about the internet in 2001.
ISTM he was so enamored by AOL buying Time Warner he changed Yahoo from being the epitome fo the internet into a AOL-wanabe-clone.
This is the guy who turned down the chance to buy Google for one billion dollars; and then again for 3 billion; and the same guy who shared Yahoo confidential info with China's government.
Yahoo's Geocities could have been Facebook+MySpace.
Yahoo Mail could have been gmail.
Yahoo's Delicious could have been stumbleupon+twitter+digg.
Yahoo's Overture could have been Google Adsense+Adwords
Yahoo's Altavista could have been google search.
But instead Yahoo's turning into little more than a reseller of Bing search results.
They all joined a new nation of the Laid Off.
The idea that any cloud-based service is free is a bit of a misnomer I think. Any time you post data to one, you trade the use of the service for insight and/or facts about your life.
Can't they just sell the site to another company?
Why OpalCalc is the best Windows calc
In the future, the usual web host will be anonymous, have sql/php, be untrackeable.
Curious this comes just a couple days after RMS warned us about the dangers of entrusting others with our personal or corporate data: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/14/stallman-cloud-computing-careless-computing/
Carol Bartz is a bitch. She was insufferable at Autodesk, where she mastered the art of abusing her customers, and now she's moved on to Yahoo to whip the employees. Trouble is, she's completely unconcerned about the standards of normal human behaviour, because she lives in the fucked up world of CEO's and other self-important asshats where she's surely receiving high praise.
After all, the entire team with low morale will be miserable at home over christmas. The ones who still have a job in the rest of the company better pretend to be real happy or *makes sliding motion across neck*.
I don't use Delicious but I got the feeling it was way more hip than Yahoo! itself. Maybe there will be a memo about Yahoo! getting rid of Yahoo! Wait...they are using Bing for search now, right?
if anyone actually used Delicious? I have never heard of anyone utilizing it, ever.
Bwahahaha you think anyone who doesn't have an MBA gets a bonus??
Is that your Yahoo! password?
I guess it does make the argument that you shouldn't trust cloud services, but they are offering you an easy way to get your data, which sort of changes things around a bit.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
And MBA = Master of Bullshit Administration?
Firstly:
Overture is shut down (OMG, my blog money is finished!)
Then geocities is shutdown (my childhood! Web 1.0)
Now this?
This is too far!
Nope. Fortunately it was one of my lowest-tier passwords I used on sites where I was less concerned about hackery.
I agree that they get some bonus points for an export option (although it is not easily discoverable). But they easily could have not. They easily could have turned off the service tomorrow with a "thank you" e-mail. This is why I'm excited about the kind of paradigm that Diaspora suggests; a kind of distributed network of services where every user handles their own data.
Yahoo to close yahoo.com
If enithin kan gow rong it whil. (Murfey)
I don't understand why they just don't kill new development and stop adding new users, but essentially leave the site as it is for existing users.
I'm a big fan of Google Notebook - I use as a task manager, and I like it better than the task functionality they've built into calendar and gmail (I've built my whole "Getting Things Done" system around it). Even though Google EOLed that product like over a year ago, they still keep it live and working for existing users. I could move if I had to, but I really appreciate Google just leaving it as it is.
Honestly, why didn't they integrate it with Y! Bookmarks?
I really liked Yahoo Bookmarks until they redesigned it in the mid-2000s. Before the redesign, Y! Bookmarks was really useful and it really made the Yahoo Toolbar useful. Then they messed it up and it wasn't useful anymore. And then they acquired Del.icio.us for no apparent reason and did some kind of half-assed, not-really-caring, so-called "integration" with Y! Bookmarks that amounted to nothing.
I'm a big fan of centralized bookmarks sites, like the defunct Blink! service, but Yahoo really aborted this great product with no apparent market focus. Sigh.
Double-sigh!!
Kriston
What's with all the hosted bookmarks/social bookmarking sites looking like they are going to close down all of the sudden? XMarks nearly did, but they sold out to somebody else. Maybe that company (lastpass?) can buy delicious too and maintain both products.
It should be "Here's my public site, with all my nominally public links."
Not sure quite where you're headed with that note.
This seemed to me to be more about "corporate boredom" aka ROI calculations. Put another way, it's like the blockbuster mentality of movies.
I liked the Long Tail mood of the net for a long time. Get an idea, and sure enough, a 40 person forum already existed for it.
Now these megacorps are closing down iconic net stuff, *instead of giving someone else a chance to spin it off*.
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
Got this notice in my Yahoo email inbox on Dec. 15:
Dear Yahoo! Video user,
After careful consideration, we will be removing all general user-generated content upload capability and user-uploaded video from Yahoo! Video. As a result, your videos, user profiles, ratings, favorites, and playlists will no longer be available after March 14, 2011. User video content from Yahoo! Video that remains embedded on third party sites will no longer be playable after March 14, 2011.
Available on your profile page is a software utility that will allow you to download the videos you have uploaded to Yahoo! Video to your computer through March 14, 2011. You can find your profile by clicking on the 'My Video' tab or going to http://video.yahoo.com/mypage.
Once you download your videos, you may choose to upload them to another site such as Flickr, which now allows video uploads. You can find out more here: http://www.flickr.com/explore/video.
Thanks for your understanding and thanks for being a part of Yahoo! Video.
If you have any questions about this change, please visit our FAQ section, or contact Customer Care.
The Yahoo! Video Team
... Delicious and Flickr. They just killed Delicious, and I'm hoping Flickr isn't so far behind.
I used to use Yahoo Mail, which was a great webmail service for its time... in 2000. I also used Yahoo Auctions until that folded. Before Google, I relied on the human-assisted Yahoo Directory for my web searches. I liked Yahoo Games, when they didn't have much besides pool and scrabble and word games.
But all of Yahoo's services have turned into ad-laden, bloated interfaces with out-of-date technology. It seems that the company has been unable/unwilling to innovate and has just been milking their previously respected brand for ad revenue. Flickr and Delicious were the only two services that seemed to resist this trend :-/.
I guess it's time to export my Delicious bookmarks and find an alternative host for them :(. SimPy and Del.irio.us used to be a couple of pretty nice open-source clones, but seem to have disappeared. Anybody else have a recommendation for a site with similar functionality, clean interface, and good browser addon support?
My bicyles
I'm thinking it's time to update my back up of my Flickr pictures. I'm behind 20 or 30, and I'd hate to get a Christmas "gift" of this nature from Yahoo...
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Yahoo is a has-been. It was at its most useful when it was a maintained tree of useful sites, essentially spam free. Then they got slow about updating it. THEN they decided you should pay or they'd drag their heels and probably not even "get to" your submission. Then (surprise) no one wanted to play with them anymore, and they shut the whole thing down. That's the history of Yahoo's actual tech. Today, they are useful to me only because they bought Flickr. I appreciate the service, but I don't think of it as "Yahoo's tech."
Car analogy:
It's like the difference between a fellow who buys a car, and one who has built one of equal quality. They both end up with cars, so if you're simply looking for a ride, they're equal. But the guy who built his car deserves a lot more respect than the guy who bought one.
Yahoo built a car, fouled the paint job, ran it into a few immovable objects, junked it, and bought another. I respect the original build, and sincerely regret that they screwed it up. That they bought another, I don't find particularly notable. I do like to ride in it, though.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Google's searches really turn up a lot of trash for me most of the time. Google ranks pages by how much they're referenced from one another, and what that does is uses the average level of attention and interest of the crowd - but the crowd these days is the usual Gaussian, not at all the original crowd of technical people, and consequently -- Google's search results reflect that.
One thing Yahoo *really* did better was class types of sites and put them together into a sensible tree; if I was looking for a particular type of software, finding a really good selection of it - if one existed - was easy. On Google, it's refine, refine, refine because the search results are *loaded* with spam, link-farms, and just generally junk.
I run a few websites, some of which are quite popular, and a trend right now is people buying one line text ads - paying fairly dearly for them, too - so that Google will see that one of my popular sites references some other site, and so ups their search ranking. The link of course is nothing but financially driven, and really has no reflection at all on the value of the linked site... but that's how Google rolls. The end result is the sites with the money climb in the rankings.
On the original Yahoo index, if you offered, say, a C compiler, you were in the list with the other people who offered a C compiler. Alphabetically. Wasn't about who bought what. That was *great*. Then Yahoo got slow. Not so great. THEN Yahoo decided you had to pay to be listed. And that was the end of Yahoo's useful tech, just that quickly. Poof!
But Google hasn't replaced that original Yahoo functionality with something better. Google is fast, easy and mediocre. Which is, I suppose, where things generally tend to end up anyway. But I still miss the original Yahoo index, before they utterly screwed it up with pay-for-your-listing-or-wait-forever.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
... they will hold on to the TM corpse just in case, won't they!
In the meantime I'm left without a bookmarking service... f#$%wits...
I'm starting to get the feeling that unless you spill some 20 $/m for a host like in the old days, all this TB,TW,GM,yadda yadda is just low cost MTV entertainment, designed to hold you down while marketers shake the pennies out of the crowd's pockets.
Mi domando chi à il mandante di tutte le cazzate che faccio - Altan
Alternative: http://www.diigo.com/ you can import your delicious bookmarks, iphone/android apps etc
I absolutely rely on delicious to remember my bookmarks for me. I won't be able to function if this goes away. There are simply no alternatives that come anywhere close to competing.
I always thought that Delicious should have been a Google acquisition, instead of Yahoo. It fits much better into the Google style. Perhaps they'll be able to pick it up form Yahoo for a song?
I want my Cowboyneal
How much longer will this second rate search engine last if they close down their only decent apps? I hope they're going to help migrate user data to another system. I have hundreds if useful bookmarks on there.
Bwahahaha you think anyone who doesn't have an MBA gets a bonus??
At least when I worked there, the bonus was linked to your share options - and everyone got those.
Yes. Yes, they do. In fact all engineering at my company partakes in the bonus pie, provided the company's doing well enough to trigger the bonuses.
It looks like it should be easy to export your bookmarks from del.icio.us and import the file into Google Bookmarks.
I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
Looks like they are shutting down *anything* that isn't "yahoo" branded.
In other words, they are out of Money. Yahoo will be aquired or dead within a year.
Here comes the great purging of the internet. It's like car companies all over again. In 10 years, there will only be the big-three websites left on the internet.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
I love del.icio.us. I keep all my stuff there. Especially the webcomics I read. I keyword them by the day of the week they are updated so I can open them all at once.
Ok, fine. What's the best alternative.
Technoli
I've got a GED in bonuses, and doing just fine. Thank you!
When will AT&T come to their senses, and fire Yahoo?
Dale May
If you've made a backup of all your files, you can browse/filter them with filterous (disclaimer: I made it). It's a shell tool, but it's a lot faster than delicious.com ever was, and can do some searches that Delicious never could. With >13,000 bookmarks, Delicious+filterous have been my most useful knowledge management tools in the last five years.
Now how to get as much as possible of the Flickr metadata out?
I use it myself every day.
So now all of us lazy bloggers who simply tag stories on delicious and let delicious generate a blogpost for us -- we're all ultimately screwed. It's much harder to compose a blogpost all at once every 24 hours manually than it is to simply micro-blog your newsstory comments into delicious and have it poop out a meta-post to your blog every 24 hours.
Some of us depended on this service. Thousands, judging by the google results. This closure will reduce the content being posted in Wordpress!
Does anyone know what's going to happen?
-Clio
Karma: Bad (mostly from not giving a fuck)
Blog: http://clintjcl.wordpress.com
Management also could have terminated them on January 1st. This would have allowed them to avoid compensating them for any vacation time they hadn't used. "Oh, that expired on Dec. 31. Too bad." I've seen that happen.
Seth
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
Presumably though, there was a severance package, which would be quite a bit heftier than a bonus check. Although they are now stuck with the burden of finding another job, they get to spend the holidays with their families.
At least that's the company's view of it right?
Yahoo is killing Del.icio.us?
-insert "that leaves a bad taste in my mouth" joke here-
Invenio via vel creo
No, I think this is a tailor made argument for using cloud services with excellent data export abilities. Since you mention 'do no evil' I assume you are referring to Google, so it is worth noting that most Google services do satisfy this criteria:
http://www.dataliberation.org/
In the end, whatever type of software or service you are using, it comes down to lock-in. If the company providing the software or services doesn't provide a really good export facility then they effectively own your data.
No I mean WTF was Delicious?
Yes that was a rhetorical question.
I just successfully exported all 3,000 delicious bookmarks to my computer, then imported them into Firefox, and then imported them to Google Bookmarks through the Google Toolbar using these instructions:
http://techblawg.ca/2010/12/17/exporting-bookmarks-with-tags-from-delicious/
Worked great except that Google Bookmarks uses "Labels" instead of "Tags' so all my pre-existing Google Bookmarks have labels and all my imported bookmarks have the label "Tag:*" and all reside within the "Imported from Delicious" label...
Oh, and I lost all of the notes associated with my delicious bookmarks, none of those made the import although they did successfully make it out in the export... Lame.
It looks like there may be room for just a little hope: What's next for delicious? from the delicious blog.
from: http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delicious.html
Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We’re genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can’t answer each of your questions individually, we wanted to address what we can at this stage and we promise to keep you posted as future plans get finalized.
Is Delicious being shut down? And should I be worried about my data?
- No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive.
What is Yahoo! going to do with Delicious?
- We’re actively thinking about the future of Delicious and we believe there is a home outside the company that would make more sense for the service and our users. We’re in the process of exploring a variety of options and talking to companies right now. And we’ll share our plans with you as soon as we can.
What if I want to get my bookmarks out of Delicious right away?
- As noted above, there’s no reason to panic. We are maintaining Delicious and encourage you to keep using it. That said, we have export options if you so choose. Additionally, many services provide the ability to import Delicious links and tags.
We can only imagine how upsetting the news coverage over the past 24 hours has been to many of you. Speaking for our team, we were very disappointed by the way that this appeared in the press. We’ll let you know more as things develop.
Unfortunately, this is not the way it works. The board of directors is usually comprised of CEOs (and other top executives) of other companies, who vote the huge salaries under an "understanding" (call it a "gentlemen's agreement") that the beneficiaries -- sitting to their boards of directors -- will return the favour.
If I had the right friends (and the wrong morals) I probably would. The problem is, regardless of my skills at running a company, I can't rub their backs (read: pad their wallets) the same way Bartz can.
Were I to sit on the boards of Intel, Cisco, and NetAapp, perhaps my situation would be different.
s/Fact/Opinion/
s/skill and capability/connections and amorality/
Voting rights are proportional to the number of common stock shares one holds. I don't know about you, but <*a quick look at my portfolio*> the major Yahoo stakeholders are nothing like me.
"I haven't figured how to back up Yahoo emails because POP3 isn't free." ...switch to Gmail?
Seriously, I cringe when I walk into a computer lab and see people using Yahoo mail. Why would anyone want to use it instead of Gmail? It should be self-evident--I shouldn't have to post screenshots.
Google doesn't hold your email hostage, either.
"Those who consume the bulk of goods are those who make them. We must never forget this secret of our prosperity."
Why even make a separate Gmail account? You can use nested labels.
But really, this is what sites like Evernote, Springpad, Diigo, etc. are for. They even have smartphone apps, and have web clippers to save straight from the browser.
"Those who consume the bulk of goods are those who make them. We must never forget this secret of our prosperity."
Diigo looks like the best replacement I've found. The interface is slightly cluttered but otherwise it seems to support the features I liked about del.icio.us. And the ability to auto-add new bookmarks to del.icio.us simultaneously is really handy.
Good find.
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