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Owen Densmore

Fwd: Yahoo! To Close Delicious

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Roger passed on the news that Delicious is being closed by Yahoo. It was of interest to me because I was converting to Delicious, along with generally revamping my digital ecology to better integrate between all the parts: tv, laptop, mac mini home server, phone, ipad, .. and so on. So bookmarks in the sky seemed part of that.

Well, as we've seen from Google, stuff often gets dropped and you Just Can't Trust the Bastards!

My solution for bookmarks in the sky was two fold: try Chrome's bookmark sync, and to make sure I had a Plan B for delicious. My plan B looks to be a winner: Pinboard: http://pinboard.in/howto/

Its sorta interesting: a one man shop that aims for simplicity over just about everything else, with a free account, but also a very interesting upgrade that includes archiving all the sites you bookmark so that if they go 404 you get a backup, sorta like Google's "cached" pages.

BTW: along the way of all this fussing with stuff, I converted to Chrome full-time, and started using the "search engine" feature. I've found that putting in several useful sites, along with an "I'm feeling lucky" search, that my use of bookmarks has diminished considerably.

-- Owen

Begin forwarded message:

From: Roger <[hidden email]>
Date: December 16, 2010 9:50:38 PM MST
To: Owen Densmore <[hidden email]>
Subject: Yahoo! To Close Delicious

Hope you haven't transitioned too many bookmarks,

-- rec --

Sent to you by Roger via Google Reader:

Yahoo! To Close Delicious

via Slashdot by timothy on 12/16/10

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."

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Jochen Fromm-5

Re: Fwd: Yahoo! To Close Delicious

That's sad, del.icio.us is the only useful service
from Yahoo which I still use. I have heard Diigo
should be good: http://www.diigo.com/

Here are 11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks
http://lists.econsultant.com/top-10-ways-delicious-backup.html

-J.

----- Original Message -----
From: Owen Densmore
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 6:26 PM
Subject: [FRIAM] Fwd: Yahoo! To Close Delicious

Roger passed on the news that Delicious is being closed by Yahoo. It was of
interest to me because I was converting to Delicious, along with generally
revamping my digital ecology to better integrate between all the parts: tv,
laptop, mac mini home server, phone, ipad, .. and so on. So bookmarks in
the sky seemed part of that.

Well, as we've seen from Google, stuff often gets dropped and you Just Can't
Trust the Bastards!

My solution for bookmarks in the sky was two fold: try Chrome's bookmark
sync, and to make sure I had a Plan B for delicious. My plan B looks to be
a winner: Pinboard: http://pinboard.in/howto/

Its sorta interesting: a one man shop that aims for simplicity over just
about everything else, with a free account, but also a very interesting
upgrade that includes archiving all the sites you bookmark so that if they
go 404 you get a backup, sorta like Google's "cached" pages.

BTW: along the way of all this fussing with stuff, I converted to Chrome
full-time, and started using the "search engine" feature. I've found that
putting in several useful sites, along with an "I'm feeling lucky" search,
that my use of bookmarks has diminished considerably.

-- Owen

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Owen Densmore

Re: Fwd: Yahoo! To Close Delicious

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Great pointers, thanks!

Listen: how about some of us try the new bookmarks-in-the-sky systems and report back on your experiences?

Now all this said, I gotta say someone is likely to buy delicious from yahoo. Or somehow it will survive. But none the less, its worth our community being free from these sorts of disasters.

-- Owen

On Dec 17, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:

> That's sad, del.icio.us is the only useful service
> from Yahoo which I still use. I have heard Diigo
> should be good: http://www.diigo.com/
>
> Here are 11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks
> http://lists.econsultant.com/top-10-ways-delicious-backup.html
>
> -J.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Owen Densmore
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 6:26 PM
> Subject: [FRIAM] Fwd: Yahoo! To Close Delicious
>
> Roger passed on the news that Delicious is being closed by Yahoo. It was of interest to me because I was converting to Delicious, along with generally revamping my digital ecology to better integrate between all the parts: tv, laptop, mac mini home server, phone, ipad, .. and so on. So bookmarks in the sky seemed part of that.
>
> Well, as we've seen from Google, stuff often gets dropped and you Just Can't Trust the Bastards!
>
> My solution for bookmarks in the sky was two fold: try Chrome's bookmark sync, and to make sure I had a Plan B for delicious. My plan B looks to be a winner: Pinboard: http://pinboard.in/howto/
>
> Its sorta interesting: a one man shop that aims for simplicity over just about everything else, with a free account, but also a very interesting upgrade that includes archiving all the sites you bookmark so that if they go 404 you get a backup, sorta like Google's "cached" pages.
>
> BTW: along the way of all this fussing with stuff, I converted to Chrome full-time, and started using the "search engine" feature. I've found that putting in several useful sites, along with an "I'm feeling lucky" search, that my use of bookmarks has diminished considerably.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
>
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