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Delicious has been sold to AVOS. From the Delicious FAQ:

What will happen to my public and private bookmarks?

By agreeing to the AVOS terms of service, you will allow us to send your account information, bookmarks, and all the data associated with your Delicious account to AVOS when they re-launch Delicious. Your public and private bookmarks will be maintained as they are today. The information transferred would include:

Delicious username
Delicious password
Email address
First Name
Last Name
Bookmarks, Tags and Notes
Inbox items
Tag Bundles
Tag Descriptions
Network Members
Subscriptions
Blogpost jobs
Twitter Auth credentials (if supplied)

What if I don't opt-in to migrate my bookmarks to AVOS?

You will no longer be able to use Delicious or access your bookmarks after the transition is complete.

cme has recommended Freelish.us, from StatusNet, "the world's leading Open Source social software."

From http://status.net/2011/04/01/new-federated-social-bookmarks-service-freelish-us:

Freelish.us is a social bookmarking service, similar to dozens of other similar services.

You can import a bookmark file from delicious.com into your freelish.us account. You can use the bookmarklet to post new URLs to the service. And you can use the AtomPub API we introduced in StatusNet 0.9.7 to post ActivityStreams-encoded bookmarks to the service.

Most importantly, you can set up your own site. Freelish.us is built using StatusNet 0.9.7 with the Bookmark plugin enabled. The statusnet-freelishus theme works pretty nicely for bookmarks. If you set up your own site, you can follow people on Freelish.us (and other OStatus-enabled services), and they can follow you. That's what “federated” means.

Anyway, I haven't transferred my bookmarks yet, so I can't speak to functionality or user experience, but I do have an account, same name as on Dreamwidth and Twitter, but not the one on LJ. I figured I'd signal-boost.

ETA: I've now uploaded my bookmarks--I think--but I'm finding the documentation unsurprisingly sparse and unhelpful. I'm going to keep poking at it to see if it ends up being useful. More updates later if I can get it working.

Comments

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Can I quote your post to spread the word?

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Well, you can certainly quote my post, as it's public, but I'm feeling somewhat less than eager to recommend it right now because I can't actually see whether my bookmarks have been uploaded.

So until I get some more help from someone on this I can't say I give it much of a thumbs up.

[flit.livejournal.com]

I migrated over to diigo.com when Yahoo announced that they were sunsetting del.icio.us, but this federated freelish thing looks pretty nifty so I'm kicking the tires right now. Diigo took at least a few hours to import my bookmarks, probably because of all of the people leaving del.icio.us, so it might take a while for freelish to batch them in. I just tried uploading an older save of my bookmarks so we'll see what it does with that and how fast. Then I'll upload a newer iteration from diigo and we'll see if it chokes on it or double-posts the older items.

Youtube is one of the more miserably designed social networking sites so I'm not that interested in migrating over to anything run by the same designers. I haven't really liked del.icio.us since Yahoo bought it and crufted it up. Diigo's a little bells-and-whistly for my tastes so going back to something more old school would definitely be to my tastes.

I love federation as a concept, too; I've been playing around with Diaspora and really like it so far, and it's just in alpha. I hadn't heard of this project before... I wonder if they're working with the Diaspora folks at all?

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely interested in your experience, because when I tried to import my bookmarks I got no confirmation of it working. I read in the bug reports that an email confirmation is supposed to go out, but I got nothing. So I really don't know if it's just overloaded or if it failed silently.

Can't say whether StatusNet is working with Diaspora. I don't think so but as I have no invite, I wouldn't be in a position to know. Identi.ca is another site using StatusNet, though, if that gives any more info.

One of my friends--cme, who I mentioned--pointed me at freelish.us. I don't know offhand what her connection is with them, other than a very early user.

StatusNet's main site is at http://status.net/.

[flit.livejournal.com]

I did another attempt today and it didn't work, so I've posted on the most relevant bug. Another user told me that his import worked... the things I have different in mine are that I had about 5 times as many links, and also I use some punctuation marks in my tags that might be choking the import.

It looks cool but I really want a place to store all of my bookmarks, so import really has to work.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's good to know. That's pretty much what I'm using delicious for now myself, so import definitely has to work for me, too.

Thanks for taking a look at it!

[flit.livejournal.com]

Okay so I found this SUPER confusing... I did eventually find my bookmarks, by looking under the 'profile' link.

So under http://freelish.us/flit/all -- no imported bookmarks.
Under http://freelish.us/flit -- imported bookmarks.

*scratches head in confusion*

I've updated my bug to reflect that the UI could be a little clearer as to where it's putting the bookmarks in question; I would normally only click 'profile' if I wanted to, you know, change my profile settings or look at my profile.

It silently removed the '/' characters from my tags rather than converting them to '_' as diigo did, which makes those tags really hard to read. (Not that the '/' was a brilliant idea, but I'm too lazy to change it now.)

It duplicated several hundred of my links between the two uploads. Not sure why only some were duped.

Also, and this is the actual show-stopper, as far as I can tell I cannot search on MY bookmarks with a specific tag. So if I search on a tag that is commonly used by other users, I see everyone's bookmarks with that tag. That's fine but a major thing I used delicious for was searching for my own bookmarks with specific tags, so not having a way to do it (that I can tell; it might be hidden under profile somewhere to) makes it basically unusable for me as a bookmark repository.

I guess I'll keep an eye on it to see if it matures (I do really like open source federated software, after all, and the mashup between twitter and delicious they have going on is pretty compelling) and continue using diigo in the meantime.

As far as I can tell your import didn't go through. (At least, you're showing as having no notices.)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell your import didn't go through. (At least, you're showing as having no notices.)

Okay, good to know. I was wondering where to find them, but if my import didn't go through, there's nothing to find. :)

Sounds like it's not ready for prime time yet.

And thanks for the pointer to diigo! I just signed up, same username as my Dreamwidth, Twitter, and freelish.us. And, for that matter, same as Classic, Islandia, Too, etc. :)