Delicious bookmarks service "sunset"

[J. Bobby Lopez]

Actually, the php based "scuttle" app also looks interesting..

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:57 AM, J. Bobby Lopez <jbl-mP51TAGdI9FBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I'm seriously pissed off about this, but it's yet another "back to reality"
> thing..   Never depend on some obscure company to house your important data.
>
> I think it's finally time to get Rubric installed:
> http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Rubric-0.145/lib/Rubric.pm<http://search.cpan.org/%7Erjbs/Rubric-0.145/lib/Rubric.pm>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:17 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY <
> clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> On 12/16/2010 05:43 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
>>
>>> It's "not dead, but it's smelling funny"...
>>>
>>> http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/is-yahoo-shutting-down-del-icio-us/
>>>
>>> I quite liked it; fair ability to back it up and push/pull bookmarks on
>>> demand.
>>>
>>
>> I've been using Diigo <http://www.diigo.com/profile/cilkay> since
>> Magnolia.com blew up and took a bunch of my data with it. One of the things
>> that appealed to me about Diigo was that every bookmark and its associated
>> tags that I saved to Diigo would also be saved to Simpy, which has since
>> died, and to Delicious <http://delicious.com/cilkay>, which is also
>> dying. That leaves me back in a position I didn't want to be in, vulnerable
>> to Diigo blowing up and taking my data with them. Yet another thing added to
>> the TODO list that I didn't really want to do. :)
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Clifford Ilkay
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