YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious 66
An anonymous reader sent in a link to the Delicious blog, which reads, "Today, we're pleased to announce that Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. As creators of the largest online video platform, they have firsthand experience enabling millions of users to share their experiences with the world. They are committed to running and improving Delicious going forward."
If you haven't logged in lately... (Score:5, Informative)
If you haven't visited in a while and want to make sure your links get moved to the new site once the current site shuts down in July, go log in and agree to have your account & links moved to the new home.
Exporting your bookmarks (Score:5, Informative)
New terms [avos.com] and privacy policy [avos.com] Don't want to have your data switched? Worried about the transition? You can easily download all your bookmarks using their API with a command like this:
curl --user username:password -o bookmarks.xml -O 'https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all'
The XML format you get it out in is pretty easy to parse into something else.
Re:Exporting your bookmarks (Score:3, Informative)
For those of you without cURL with SSL support:
- You can also navigate to that site in your normal browser and save the resultant file (XML file)
- Or you can log into the site and go to the Settings Page > Export / Backup Bookmarks (HTML file)
Re:Exporting your bookmarks (Score:5, Informative)
I found the AVOS terms of use to be disappointing. 8 pages of 'me me me' and boiler plate.
"YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE ... YOU ARE INDICATING THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE REGISTERED WITH THE SITE."
That's interesting. In the agreement they want me to agree to, they state I have already agreed to it.
"You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information during the registration process and to update such information to keep it accurate, current and complete."
You want to make it legally binding that my street address stay up to date? I call that legal overkill. I can see wanted to get accurate information but I take legal agreements seriously and I dont want to worry about what contracts I'm breaking by forgetting to keep my street address up to date.
"We may, in our sole discretion, permit Members to post, upload, publish, submit or transmit Member Content. By making available any Member Content through the Site and Service, you hereby grant to AVOS a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view..."
We *may* allow you to post stuff, but we own everything you post. Status.net has a similar model of collecting and distributing user content and they use a Creative Commons license.
"You agree not to do any of the following: ... 6. Attempt to access or search the Site ... through the use of any engine, software, tool..."
So much for an extensible platform.
What are some good bookmark apps that I can install on my own server?