Three small things about the rumored impending sunsetting of Delicious.
First, it's easy to grab an archive of all your bookmarks, and there are plenty of services that you can import them into. But I never used Delicious as something to "store" things, I used it as a place for link blogging. Delicious wasn't about personal utility, it was about public performance.
So I just grabbed my archives and put them up here, where it's back to being about personal utility. Bookmark activity back to 2003! Kind of fun, actually.
Second, one of the things I found there was a December 2003 bit in NTK, the fantastic brit email newsletter from the early aughts, about del.icio.us itself. I've screenshotted the paragraph because if you were around the web then and read NTK, it will send you down a nostalgia tunnel so deep and long as to have no end.
Third, while having no clue what the hell Yahoo!! (so great now it deserves two exclamation points) is doing shuttering one of their Web 2.0 darlings, I absolutely loved this tweet from @fakecarolbartz.
I'm kind of the opposite - I barely use the social aspects of delicious - it's just the best way to unify bookmarks across four computers and three browsers on each. Even if alternatives emerge, it's going to take a long time for the quality of browser plugins for the alternatives to evolve to the point where the delicious plugins are today. I'm not nostalgiac about delicious - just wondering wtf I'm going to do about excellent distributed bookmarking.
Posted by: Shacker | Dec 16, 2010 at 04:44 PM
I shoveled my links into
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/delicious-20101216.htm
all umpty-ump thousand of them. Thank goodness that the export format is also a reasonably readable web page; all we need is a spiffy style sheet and we're on our way.
Posted by: Edward Vielmetti | Dec 16, 2010 at 08:20 PM