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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