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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