[NTLUG:Discuss] The End For Delicious?

[Steve Baker]

On 12/20/2010 10:17 AM, Robert Pearson wrote:
> {Suspicions Confirmed}
> Former Yahoo Exec: “Delicious Is in Peril,” Sale Unlikely
> <http://mashable.com/2010/12/19/delicious-yahoo-exec-opinion/>
> [Article excerpt]
> While rumors and responses about bookmarking service Delicious swirl
> around the web, one former Yahoo and Delicious employee who maintains
> close ties with relevant teams says the service’s future is most
> certainly in jeopardy — in fact, he speculates that while the data may
> end up stored somewhere, the service itself has a slim chance of
> survival.
>
>
> Since I have years of bookmarks on Delicious (~4000 of them), I am a
> little concerned.
> Anybody else have this situation?
> What are you looking at for alternatives?
> Any easy way to move 4k of bookmarks?
> I know I can export my Delicious bookmarks to a CSV file on my home
> computer. Would this be a good thing to do?
>
>   
Sure!  Save them in whatever form you can - edit them into an HTML doc
and save to your own website someplace.   Most browsers can import
bookmarks from HTML and export them back out again - so what I do is to
keep my bookmark list on a web page - then, periodically, as I
accumulate more bookmarks in my browser, I import the HTML list (which
merges the old bookmarks with the new ones I've been creating) - then
export again to keep the website updated.

That way I always have all of my bookmarks no matter whether I'm
browsing from a phone, my Kindle or a PC.   If you don't want anyone
else to see your bookmarks - then it's pretty simple to protect the web
page.

  -- Steve