I’ve been using delicious since 2004. It’s no surprise to see Yahoo abandon delicious finally but it still hurts to see a promising product failing to get the attention/resource it deserves. Back in 2005/06, when tagging and folksnomies were at their peak, I could see delicious as the “central” memory for links.<p>Fast forward to 2008. I was in foocamp. There was a night session called “Computational Photography” and it was Joshua who hosted it. I went there and found PG, Tim O’Reilly and a couple of other folks interested in AR were there. Joshua wanted to show cool videos on youtube but just couldn't find it. Here is the conversation between Joshua and Tim that has stuck in my mind ever since.<p><pre><code> > J: Forget it. I just can’t find it.
> J: I wish there is a service I can share my links with others.
> T: That’ll be delicious!
</code></pre>
3 months ago, @timbull and I started developing trunk.ly. To me, it’s picking up the torch of delicious and delivering a promise of “never forget a link again”. Trunk.ly pulls in all the links you’ve shared on different social networks, twitter, facebook, and of course delicious, and make them full text searchable.<p>Trunk.ly is still in its invite-only pre-beta stage. It's not as aesthetically attractive as we'd like it to be. It still has minor bugs. But we'll try out best to send out as many invites as possible so that you can pull in all of your delicious bookmarks before Yahoo completely shut it down.<p>Here are what others have said about trunk.ly:<p>Fenn Bailey, founder of Adioso, YC09 alumni<p><pre><code> > I honestly thought I'd only need to use it
> sporadically ... however within the day of
> installing it I was already reaching for
> Trunkly to find something I'd said
</code></pre>
Rand Fish, founder/CEO of SEOmoz<p><pre><code> > Trunk.ly is a deceptively simple …
> I've been surprised at how often I use
> it just to find the things I tweeted!
</code></pre>
@bootload, fellow entrepreneur<p><pre><code> > with #delicious rotting and rumours of shutting
> down this makes #trunkly a great #geek #christmas present</code></pre>
This is funny. Tim and I woke up this morning thinking about the contract job we've been working on. Then we saw the delicious thing and I wrote this post. Not expecting anything major. But 3 hours later, we're on the HN front page. And our invite queue is jammed with requests.<p>What the heck. Tim and I just decided to pull out our credit cards, remove the invitation thing and open up the registration.<p>A big Thank You to the HN community. You've made our day.<p>We just launched!
On "import links from delicious"<p>In trunk.ly, you can pull in all your delicious links and notes with only one step. Your tags will be imported as well.<p>For 99% user, your links will be imported very smoothly. However, trunk.ly is still pre-beta, a fews of things I worth mentioning:<p>1. If, very unfortunately, you've merged your delicious account with your yahoo accounts, you won't be able to import.<p>2. Trunk.ly is not https just yet. Yes, we're working on this right now.<p>3. If you have over 50,000 links, you may have problems importing them. We're using lxml's DOM to process the yahoo message while we really should'of used the SAX model to deal with super large messages.
alex, very cool.<p>so I used to use delicious to track others bookmarking and I have a nice group of people that I followed. is trunkly able to import my connections from delicious? this is how I used it mostly and I think that it is a very valuable source of info that I'm losing
The invite form Submit button on your front page won't work without JavaScript enabled.<p>I hope you fix that, but more importantly I hope you make sure trunk.ly works correctly without JS enabled. Delicious does, which is very nice.<p>Note that I'm not some anti-JS gremlin. I've been using the web since 1997 and have only disabled JS in my primary browser (Opera) last month. Wish I'd done it sooner. (I browse JS-heavy pages in Chromium or FF; previously they were reserved for pages that depended on Flash).
Neat! Do you plan to add the ability to add new links (and add tags to them)? I saw your trunk.ly page (<a href="http://trunk.ly/alexdong/" rel="nofollow">http://trunk.ly/alexdong/</a>), and the first thing that struck me was - besides building a searchable index of all the links that I shared on different services, if you give people the ability to tag/bookmark new links, you might just be the service that Yahoo failed to grow out of Delicious.
A suggestion: When I submit my email address for the invite, the email field does not get cleared, and instead a small message appears underneath saying "Thank you for your interest!" - I completely missed it, and kept trying to submit again and again!<p>Looking forward to using the product, good job.
I wish you luck! Check out archivd.com and dowser.sf.net; there are lots of good ideas to steal. (I wrote them both, but they are not under active development.)