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Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes]

Jon Dron
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By Jon Dron 16 December 2010 @ 4:34pm Comments (3)
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/is-yahoo-shutting-down-del-icio-us/

Alas. 

Many years back I cursed del.icio.us for taking ideas many others (including me) had created and building something brilliant and profitable out of them. But it was a fine site and, dammit, they did build a really great system that justly deserved its success and that was streets ahead of anything the rest of us were trying to do. So now I curse Yahoo (as usual) for giving it their inimitable kiss of death.

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  • Mark A. McCutcheon
    Mark A. McCutcheon December 17, 2010 - 9:57am

    Boo!

    Good thing the Landing has bookmarking. Most of my Delicious bookmarks may well migrate here.

  • sarah beth
    sarah beth May 8, 2011 - 11:33am

    I knew this was on here somewhere (has the search function improved, or have I just gotten better at using it?)... Delicious has been acquired by AVOS, which is nice for me because I use it to organize bookmarks into researchable tag bundles, but their terms of service have changed to include the following, which is not so nice for me, since most of what I'd like to collect in researchable bundles is 'obscene content':

    Current (and about to be former) Delicious Terms state:

    The linked websites’ content, business practices and privacy policies are not under the control of Delicious, and Delicious is not responsible for the content of any linked website or any link contained in a linked website. (…) In accessing Delicious or following links to third-party websites you may be exposed to content that you consider offensive or inappropriate. You agree that your only recourse is to stop using Delicious.

    The New AVOS-Delicious Terms have new rules - rules that change Delicious in a serious way:

    You agree not to do any of the following: post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any Content that: (…) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (iii) is fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive; (iv) is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive (…)

    Punishment for posting links that violate the new Terms: AVOS-Delicious has the right to remove all your bookmarks/content at its discretion and without notice.

    Also note in that excerpt regarding violating laws or regulations: does this mean linking to GeoHot-like issues, Torrent Freak topics, or links pertaining to the organization of revolutions?

    My bookmarks might have to migrate just for the sake of being able to bookmark them without risking losing a goldmine of media representations of (fear of) sexuality, revolution and cyborgs with no notice. 

  • Mark A. McCutcheon
    Mark A. McCutcheon May 8, 2011 - 12:34pm

    Thanks for noticing that; I thought I had read the AVOS fine print. Boo again.

Jon Dron

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