(optional.is) Link Rot
Following on from my recently-lost long bet, this is a timely bit of data spelunking from Brian analysing the linkrot of 1400 links over 18 years of time.
Link tags: delicious
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Did I Make a Mistake Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo?
For once, Betteridge’s law of headlines is refuted.
This is a fascinating insight into the heady days of 2005 when Yahoo was the cool company snapping up all the best products like Flickr, Upcoming, and Del.icio.us. It all goes downhill from there.
There’s no mention of the surprising coda.
Pinboard Acquires Delicious
Oh my goodness! Maciej is channelling Jason Scott:
Delicious has over a billion bookmarks and is a fascinating piece of web history. Even Yahoo, for whom mismanagement is usually effortless, had to work hard to keep Delicious down. I bought it in part so it wouldn’t disappear from the web.
Delicious Changes | The Official Delicious Blog
The first big change you’ll notice is our transition from the javascript front-end framework that has been powering the content at https://www.delicious.com. The engineers who crafted this version of the site are incredibly talented, and their code is amazing. It’s beautiful and powerful, but it has posed several significant challenges for us. For example, the search engines have a real problem reading our content, hindering users’ efforts to use Google or Bing to find what they’re looking for on Delicious.
Fan Is A Tool-Using Animal—dConstruct Conference Talk
Maciej has published the transcript of his magnificent (and hilarious) talk from dConstruct 2013.
Infovore » A Year of Links
I really like what Tom has done here, printing out his bookmarks.
They capture a changing style of writing. They capture changing interests – you can almost catalogue projects by what I was linking to when. They capture time – you can see the gaps when I went on holiday, or was busy delivering work. They remind me of the memories I have around those links – what was going on in my life at those points.
Link Rot « The Bygone Bureau
Brilliant; just brilliant. Connor O’Brien remains skeptical about the abstract permanence of “the cloud.” The observations are sharp and the tone is spot-on.
If your only photo album is Facebook, ask yourself: since when did a gratis web service ever demonstrate giving a flying fuck about holding onto the past?
ASCII by Jason Scott / Yahoo!locaust
A viciously accurate assessment of Yahoo’s scorched earth policy towards our online collective culture:
All I can say, looking back, is that when history takes a look at the lives of Jerry Yang and David Filo, this is what it will probably say: Two graduate students, intrigued by a growing wealth of material on the Internet, built a huge fucking lobster trap, absorbed as much of human history and creativity as they could, and destroyed all of it.
notes.husk.org. The Post-Delicious World.
Paul has some further thoughts on self-hosting bookmarks while trying to retain the social aspect.
notes.husk.org. Sticking With Delicious.
Paul explains why he won’t be moving from Delicious: the social network is too valuable.
delicious blog » Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here
Delicious has finally launched its redesign. It feels weird linking to it from Magnolia.
3spots: del.icio.us as color tool
Did you know that you could use del.icio.us to bookmark colour palettes? Neither did I.
BBC NEWS | Help | Social bookmarking links
Et tu, BBC?
suda.co.uk/projects/microformats [Planet]
Planet Microformats: Brian aggregates blog posts, upcoming events, del.icio.us links and Flickr pics tagged with 'microformats' (which means this link will also appear there... I mean here).
The Social Customer Manifesto: The "First Mile"
An interesting take on the recent round of acquisitions by Yahoo.
del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!
Yahoo! does it again. Now they've gone and snapped up del.icio.us.