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Unconfirmed reports that Yahoo has sold Delicious for $5 Million+
- hassy 16y agoso having joshu and not selling in desperation is worth at least $13 million
- nostrademons 16y agoIt's funny that multi-billion-$ Yahoo seems more desperate than angel-funded joshu.
- movingahead 16y agoI have been sticking with Delicious in the hope that Yahoo will sell it off to a good team, who can revive Delicious. Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously. Google Bookmarks is a joke - it doesn't even sync with Chrome.
- polynomial 16y ago>Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously. Cannot uparrow enough. Anyone care to shed some light on this?
- pclark 16y agoGoogle Search killed bookmarks, it's faster and easier to simply Google a vague string you remember from the page, rather than type a tag into a different service, or trawl through six hundred sites you have incoherently organised.
- gruseom 16y agoTrue, but I use Delicious for grouping things that I don't remember, so it saves me not a one-off search but an entire search session on a topic. Also, the graph aspect of seeing who else bookmarked a page, then what else they've bookmarked and tagged, is still a killer feature (if it weren't so slow) after all these years. Given how rarely I'm the first to add any page, for me Delicious is basically a database of everything interesting on the web. That just has to be valuable. If only some deep thinkers and hard workers would do something with it.
- Alex3917 16y agoThat was true five years ago maybe, but these days Google is pretty much a cesspool. It often takes me over an hour just to find something vaguely related to what I'm looking for, even if I remember three or four different strings from the page. Especially for things like academic journal articles, if you don't bookmark it then it's pretty much gone forever.
- StavrosK 16y agoYou would like http://historio.us/ http://historio.us/
- didip 16y agoCare to try http://mybucket.co http://mybucket.co? When you found that precious article, it's a bookmarklet click away. And tagging is not a chore at all, simple use #hashtag in the description.
- sid0 16y agoWhy should I use it over Firefox's native bookmarks?
- didip 16y agoI asked that question for myself, and the answer (for me) is because of the hassle of switching browsers. I switch browsers somewhat often, and I'd like to have all my bookmarks in the same place (not to mention the terror of migrating all bookmarks when getting new laptop). That's the main reason. And of course there are little reasons such as: * native bookmark doesn't give me preview or little snippet of what the link is about. * I want to replay Freddie Mercury songs on YouTube in loop. * It's always a pain to download photos of myself, tagged by family on Facebook.
- sid0 16y agoFirefox sync means I don't have to worry about losing my bookmarks, and I doubt I'm going to use anything but Firefox for a long while. Your other points are interesting, but I don't really see how they beat the awesomebar integration Firefox has.
- jokermatt999 16y agoIf you keep history, I've found Firefox's AwesomeBar is incredibly useful for finding stuff if you can remember a fragment of the page title or url.
- code_duck 16y agoAlso, the Google Chrome bar is notably less useful for this. Chrome supplies completions assuming what you have typed is in the beginning of the URL, while Firefox searches within the URL, title, and so on.
- code_duck 16y agoMy #1 use for bookmarks is to save particular page while researching a topic. I might do 20 searches with variations of terms, and find a useful page perhaps through a link on a page that came up in the search. Then, a few days later when I need that page again, Google search is not going to help I'd have to recreate the exact query that led to me finding the site in question. That is why bookmarks are still useful.
- teyc 16y agoPeople value things they already seen and know more than things they haven't. This is why bookmarking is always necessary. It is to aid recall.
- lkozma 16y agoMaybe because bookmarking is a bit like TODO apps: not technically difficult to do but everyone hates using someone else's system. Of course, Delicious was the exception :)
- Groxx 16y agoI've been using a combination of Pinboard and XMarks. Overall extremely happy so far - Pinboard manages about a thousand and has tags and one-click "read later" and offline searching and is my primary backup, and XMarks keeps my dozen browsers and 500 bookmarks in sync transparently (stable + beta + dev + sometimes nightly versions of a number of browsers).
- dabent 16y agoI joined Pinboard.in a while back and love it.
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- davidwparker 16y agoI use Chrome bookmarks and they sync to Google Docs... I'm not quite sure why they don't sync to Google Bookmarks. Nonetheless, I'm pleased with it as I'm on multiple systems and I still have my bookmarks built into my browser. Added bonus that when I start to "search" in the url/search bar, it brings up relevant bookmarks.
- Tycho 16y agoI swear by historio.us And they might just get my subscription once I use up my last 70 or so free bookmark slots. The two best features are that you get a good search function, and it caches the page for you in case the original one falls off the net.
- voxmatt 16y agoMy problem with delicio.us was always the amount of time I had to devote to managing everything. I had to manage the links, the tags, my page, the plugins, etc... It's a wonderful service, but I always froze in that moment of bookmarking: what do I tag this? Where am I going to put this that I remember? To that end, I've been trying historio.us. I'm not so sure about it, but I like that I just click one button and I know that if I really have to find it some day, I can. They killer feature that would make it truly useful is some sort of auto-filtering for what you're inputting.
- pclark 16y agoI much prefer manual tags over automagical tags, as tags I create seem to resonate with my memory far better.
- bostonvaulter2 16y agoI just wish that delicious wasn't so exact when searching tags. For example, something a search for plugin would not match the tag plugins.
- didip 16y agoIf you like convenience, I think you will like http://mybucket.co http://mybucket.co It operates and accessible via bookmarklet. Care to give it a try? Oh, and tagging is as simple as #youruniquekeywords
- dustingetz 16y ago"create bucket" gave me a 500. fortunately i want this enough that i will come back later today! edit: works now. two bookmarklets please! one thing that annoys me about trunkly and delicious is that i have to click twice to save: once on the bookmarklet, and once to save.
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- taken11 16y agohope the will use the old domain again, del.icio.us was so much better than delicious.com
- brk 16y agoHow exactly was that a better domain? I always thought that part of the issue with delicious was that you couldn't easily tell someone about it. "Del dot". "No, D-E-L, not Dell, it's not a Dell site". "DEL dot icio dot US". "Right, there is no www and no .com. It's just D E L dot I C I O dot U S. I don't know why they didn't use www or .com, maybe they wanted to seem hyper confusing to new users"
- _delirium 16y agoI kept mistyping it even when I was a semi-frequent user: del.icio.us, deli.cio.us, de.licio.us, del.ici.ous, etc. For some reason I kept doing the latter out of some sort of symmetry (3.3.3), even though obviously I know that .ous isn't a valid TLD. The even dot spacing is one reason I find cr.yp.to easier.
- teaspoon 16y agoNow that it's 2011, I'd probably say, "Google 'delicious'."
- cpeterso 16y agoOr bookmark it!
- chrisboesing 16y agoI wonder who the "competitor" is that bought delicious. The first one that comes to mind is Digg, since Kevin Rose said he would like to buy it and Yahoo contacted Digg if they would by it[1]. The second one that comes to my mind is StumbleUpon, especially two days after raising a Series B of $17 Million[2]. [1]: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/kevin-rose-yahoo-contacted-digg-to-see-if-we-wanted-to-take-over-delicious/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/kevin-rose-yahoo-contacted-... [2]: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/stumbleupon-stumbles-onto-17m-from-accel-and-others/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/stumbleupon-stumbles-onto-1...
- cmer 16y agoI doubt Digg (the company) would bother. They are having more than enough trouble keeping their own ship afloat. EDIT: then again, I wasn't aware of this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/kevin-rose-yahoo-contacted-digg-to-see-if-we-wanted-to-take-over-delicious/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/kevin-rose-yahoo-contacted-...
- mckoss 16y agomahalo?
- raganwald 16y agoTo save RiderOfGiraffes a few moments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2313351 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2313351
- barredo 16y agoIt's deleted now
- alanh 16y agoHmm what’s the story here?
- notaddicted 16y agoRiderOfGiraffes: unofficial #1 flagger of duplicate submissions (a.k.a dupes).
- zaidf 16y agoStumbleUpon may be? They just raised 17M...and seem to enjoy buying stuff back.
- runevault 16y agoHm if they are really moving it, should probably make a more recent backup of my bookmarks just in case. Though I've not used the service much since word came down they are selling or sunsetting it.
- blazer 16y agoOnion? Why so under valuated?
- rinnku 16y agoOne day after we launch a new social bookmarking and community news site - http://www.rinnku.com http://www.rinnku.com - and Yahoo calls it quits! The cowards... :)
- jcslzr 16y agogood site there, good luck seems the secret its to fake the traffic at the begging, let me know if you find out how ;)
- nivertech 16y agoI interested to know, how much is OPEX per month to keep afloat a consumer web service, like delicious?
- idlewords 16y agoI think it depends on how aggressive you want to be about spam fighting. The marginal cost of running delicious is not high for Yahoo (especially now that they fired the entire dev team), but you need someone to go in there and tidy up after the spammers.
- amitraman1 16y agoBad missteps at Yahoo!. Apparently they have a new faster e-mail. Yahoo email in Flash/Javascript + visual ads really ruined my experience with Yahoo.
- u48998 16y agoI want my browser to develop and improve the History feature so I don't have to rely on manual bookmarking. Strangely, no one is paying attention.
- mckoss 16y agoI've been running social bookmarking service Faves.com for a couple of years. We had to cut our team as we were not making enough money to support it. This year we've actually been cutting features to emphasize performance. I'd like to transition to a subscription model, myself. Prior to pinboard I wouldn't have thought that was an option.