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Pioneering Link-Sharing Site Del.icio.us Shuts Down (thenextweb.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader brentlaminack writes:
One of the first and best social bookmarking platforms, Del.icio.us has changed hands about four times, one was to Yahoo for >$15M. Its most recent relaunch was over a year back, which was their last blog entry. Now images are broken, little "advertisement" blocks show up with no advertisements, things seem moribund. What's the deal?
The Next Web reports: It's the end of the road for social bookmarking website del.icio.us. After almost fifteen years, the site has been acquired by rival Pinboard, and will be shuttered on June 15, when it goes into read-only mode. While the site will continue to be viewable, users won't be able to save any new bookmarks. Del.icio.us pioneered the social bookmarking paradigm. Its influence can be seen everywhere, from Reddit to Twitter...
After del.icio.us was acquired by AVOS Systems in 2011, users fled to Pinboard in droves over complaints AVOS was fundamentally changing the makeup of the site. By purchasing del.icio.us, Pinboard is able to coax the few remaining del.icio.us users to jump ship. Depending on how much Pinboard paid for the site, how many users remain, and how many users Pinboard is able to convert, this could be a financially lucrative move. A Pinboard subscription costs $11 per annum.
A late update to the article includes a quote from Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski. "In a statement, he said 'I am the greatest.' Ceglowski also confirmed the purchase price for del.icio.us, which was $35,000."
The Next Web reports: It's the end of the road for social bookmarking website del.icio.us. After almost fifteen years, the site has been acquired by rival Pinboard, and will be shuttered on June 15, when it goes into read-only mode. While the site will continue to be viewable, users won't be able to save any new bookmarks. Del.icio.us pioneered the social bookmarking paradigm. Its influence can be seen everywhere, from Reddit to Twitter...
After del.icio.us was acquired by AVOS Systems in 2011, users fled to Pinboard in droves over complaints AVOS was fundamentally changing the makeup of the site. By purchasing del.icio.us, Pinboard is able to coax the few remaining del.icio.us users to jump ship. Depending on how much Pinboard paid for the site, how many users remain, and how many users Pinboard is able to convert, this could be a financially lucrative move. A Pinboard subscription costs $11 per annum.
A late update to the article includes a quote from Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski. "In a statement, he said 'I am the greatest.' Ceglowski also confirmed the purchase price for del.icio.us, which was $35,000."
I won't believe it's dying until Netcraft confirms it.
Been a while since I've seen it. Just hopped on their homepage to look at it.. Good lord is it uninviting.
Poorly defined business model leads to bankruptcy. Much like how domain name squatters ended up with very little in most cases. Companies simply made up words (Pinterest, Wikipedia, etc.) -- left off a vowel (Tumblr) -- or strung words together (Facebook, YouTube, Craigslist), and saved themselves a king's ransom.
Link-sharing sites are the scourge of search results. The worst ones like Pinterest which actually "demand" that you make an account to view their content? They have to shut down.
#DeleteFacebook
There is supposedly a bookmarks export function in delicious, but
"We're sorry, but due to heavy load on our database we are no longer able to offer an export function. Our engineers are working on this and we will restore it as soon as possible."
They've been "working on this" for about 6 months now. In other words the message is BS by unscrupulous site owners.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
It's one of many sites that have sadly suffered the same fate.
Looking at you Twitch, Slashdot Beta. Let this be a warning, don't piss off your users with stupid UI changes. There's nothing wrong with simplicity.
That's Dis.gust.ing
I'll bet Pinboard makes upwards of $0 per year on subscriptions.
Of course, and rightly so! Why in the world would we tax them for losing money? Wait, why did you even comment. Wait... why I am feeding a troll?
Mike @ The Geek Pub. Let's Make Stuff!
the shit spams good image search and 1/2 of the images lead to Pinterest. Its like using search back in the mid 2000's with SEO companies fucking up the search results.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Fu.cki.ng stu.pid na.me.
This is nonsense. There's no such thing as a "Pinboard subscription". You pay a one-off fee to sign-up.
However, the more people who sign-up, the higher the sign-up fee gets.
I think I paid about $5 for mine back in the day and haven't paid a cent since.
I still remember when reddit was simply a hole in the wall. Now they are the new fad like myspace, digg, etc. Trust me, in 10 years nobody will know what the fuck you mean when you say "reddit". The site is simply terrible.
Agreed.
with profit no human should have but as a whole.
You don't get to decide what's too little or too much. That's not how this works at all.
Slashdot will still be trucking along.
I'm honestly shocked they haven't crashed and burned already.
Mike @ The Geek Pub. Let's Make Stuff!
wants to be the first monkey to touch the monolith
It was all goofing around, in the end, to hope for branching tubes where no Gopher would get lost. Veronica tried to help, poorly, but at least, hey, she was no Archie! Then a Mosaic of possibilities spread wide, and some cowboys tried to rein in all the cattle, Yahooing it in minuscule pens to make every stick count. That is, 'till it was clear no wall was going to dam *that* Netscaping herd, so they rather searched from a box--ExcitedLy'cos the Altavista gave them the Jeeves. But townsfolk are not so easily swayed by quick fads, so they kept fencing around their tiny pastures, trying to figure out the Keywords that would allow multi-dimensional carpeting.
Explorers came and went, carrying handy books to mark places nobody ever went on purpose. And the robots rediscovered academia: a handful of references are warmer than a Googol of matches. So the box grew referential and exponentially, but still people preferred to Stumble Upon the Wild Wide West, and corraled their most Del.icio.us recipes by hand, helping each other to stack them in the right places--and now their tiny parcel had it's own box!
It was the heyday of careful web treading, each little sliver of chaos piled up in immense haystacks witch just a pair of pitches from your ball-bearing fork.
And then, from such unfathomable heights, it all came, predictably, down. What could not be foreseen is not that no one saw it coming, but that no one saw it crash either.
The war of the box was so brief as the war of the enclosing box so all that what was left was the space in between. Some produced pretty squares that could be plastered everywhere, but as any entrepreneur knows, it's more cost effective to plaster *everyone* in the same space.
And so the new race became about herding everyone into My one Space, and in such constrained confines every Face and Book started spewing facile trivia and emotional facts, birds barking their every Pinterest and dogs Tweeting whenever they Digged their every hole, the Wide Web made a whirling of urgently unimportant fast food for thought. The Wide Web, but not the World? No. In the center of all of it, watching everything fly to pieces, the box stands, alone, proud of its monolithic certainty.
But still a few irreductibles tried to remember the golden days of yonder, to break outside the box. And failed to. So the wheel spun once more, and reinvented itself, allowing us to once more XMark the spot of the things we really Diigo, and forEver take Note... until the next spin around...