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The API let you get your own data out. Everyone else's data wasn't yours to have. And that sort of crawling tended to knock down the site.

• PaulHoule 16y ago
  Perhaps you're right, but in some sense that data belongs, collectively, to all of us. In my mind, delicious represents everything that was great and everything awful about 'Web 2.0'. Yes, it did something that everybody assumed was impossible because bookmarking sites failed so consistently in 'Web 1.0'. Although delicious provided a useful current awareness service, it never did any of the interesting things with the data that would have made it possible to move onto 'Web 3.0'. And it probably never will -- but maybe that's fine because it opens up an opportunity for the rest of us.
  • AgentConundrum 16y ago
    I just want to make sure you know who you're replying to. Joshu is the guy that wrote/founded delicious. Perhaps "in some sense" you feel that that data belongs to all of us, but it's not really your place to decide. Delicious had terms of use, and you violated those terms. Your argument sounds a bit like the "the internet is public domain" cookbook lady from last month. It was wrong then, and it's wrong now.
    • PaulHoule 16y ago
      I know who he is. As I've said, I've dealt with him before. He's free to put up whatever defenses he wants to put up. Other people are going to try to tear them down. That's the way of the world.