[NTLUG:Discuss] The End For Delicious?

[Kenneth Loafman]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Kevin E. Ivey <ik04 at isot.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
> Until recently, I used XMarks.  When they threatened to shut down, I
> switched to Mozilla Sync.  They work pretty much the same way.
>
> I have all my bookmarks since 1996 stored online now.  You can always
> back them up as an html file also.
>
>
XMarks is alive and well, thank goodness.  They really work well and even
have Android presence.

...Ken