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 <[email protected]> > Date: December 16, 2010 9:50:38 PM MST > To: Owen Densmore <[email protected]> > 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." > > > Read more of this story at Slashdot. > > > > > Things you can do from here: > Subscribe to Slashdot using Google Reader > Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites > >
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