Please, 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.
The 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.
Noooo! 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.<p>Where should I put all my bookmarks? What other bookmark service has a nice browser plugin, APIs, etc?<p>After this I'm also convinced that Yahoo is hopeless.
It seems a bit crazy that they're shutting down services like delicious and especially Uproar (which is actually in a growth market!).<p>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).<p>What's the justification to shareholders to shutting down as opposed to selling ?
Well 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.<p>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.
Any idea on how much money Yahoo's actually losing by just running Delicious?<p>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.<p>Side side note: Seriously, what company does layoffs a week before Christmas!?
Damn, 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?
One 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.<p>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.
Regardless of whether or not Del.icio.us is being shut down, Blake Irving's reaction to his screencast being "leaked" was completely uncalled for:<p><a href="http://twitter.com/Blakei/status/15488532072103936" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/Blakei/status/15488532072103936</a><p>"@bpm140 @joshu Really dude? Can't wait to find out how you got the web cast. Whoever it is, gone!"
Open question: How could Yahoo have monetized delicious?<p>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.
It will be sad to see Delicious go, if it indeed does.<p>I would also like to point out <a href="http://pinboard.in/howto/#import" rel="nofollow">http://pinboard.in/howto/#import</a>
Automatically backup your Delicious bookmarks here : <a href="http://www.favbot.com/import-delicious.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.favbot.com/import-delicious.html</a><p>OAuth import will be up soon.
This 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...
Welcome to the Cloud!<p>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.<p>In my opinion the best way to solve this is to set up an auction for the "delicious asset".
I wonder if it'd even be possible to donate it to some foundation that preserves influential websites.<p>It'd be a pity to leave delicious and just trash it, instead of archiving it somewhere.
I've gone to use Delicious several times but stopped short at the login screen.<p>There's no way I'm going to use a service when I have to create a Yahoo account.<p>Same goes with Flickr.
This 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.<p>Another advantage is that I can share links form multiple machines.<p>I am avoiding chrome until they have something like noscript plugin (which will likely not happen) in firefox
What are the chances we can talk Google into buying it? I just started using it and it's beyond amazingly useful!<p>I don't want to lose the ability to save bookmarks this way.<p>Is there anything out there on the web that duplicates the functionality?
I'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?<p>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.
Also hiding in there: Altavista. Now there is a venerable piece of web real estate—fifteen years ago it was <i>the</i> place to go for web search. I didn't even know it was still around....
What'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.<p>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.<p>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. :)
It 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?
Interesting 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.<p>Say what you mean, Yahoo.
Time to move my bookmarks from Delicious.<p>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.<p>Does anyone have an working instructions for migrating to Google Bookmarks? Most sites refer to this page which appears to be broken - <a href="http://persistent.info/delicious2google/" rel="nofollow">http://persistent.info/delicious2google/</a>
Very sad news. At least, delicious has the export option.<p>For someone with almost 9000 bookmarks it came out to 1.7MB .html file. (and yes, tags are in the source)<p>I wasn't using Delicious to full extent, as my needs were simple, just cross browser, cross platform, cross machine bookmark service.<p>Will have to check out Pinboard, Historious and other alternatives mentioned in this thread.
First 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?<p>Now that's exactly why I am -- and always was -- against webapps and my data being in a cloud.
I 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?<p>Am I missing something here?
I have a been working on a replacement <a href="http://toadjaw.com" rel="nofollow">http://toadjaw.com</a> but haven't opened it up to the public. It allows importing from delicious.com. Anybody interested in using it?
Dumb question, but couldn't they try to sell it again? Is that never an option, once a startup has been bought?<p>I realize they probably have added some Yahoo specific stuff, like single sign on, so disentangling it might be too costly?
I 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.
If you're looking for a Delicious alternative, then also worth checking out is:<p><a href="http://www.shareaholic.com/services" rel="nofollow">http://www.shareaholic.com/services</a><p>(a list of over 50 bookmarking services)
So I guess they don't make enough money on it, then ?<p>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 !!!!"...
Some alternate bookmarking services...<p>Google Bookmarks, Pinboard, Historious, Diigo, Netvouz, Favbot, Favilous, Licorize, Wonderpage, Wheatt, Wajam, Markr, Xmarks.<p>Please add others which I may have missed...
I 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...
On 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.<p>Shameless plug: I run <a href="http://feedjit.com/" rel="nofollow">http://feedjit.com/</a> 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.
AllthingsD is confirming that Del.icio.us will be shut down: <a href="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101216/following-layoffs-yahoo-cuts-products-mybloglog-delicious-yahoo-buzz/" rel="nofollow">http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101216/following-layof...</a>
Is 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).