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'''Delicious''' is a social bookmarks site where you can post and tag sites using [[Yahoo!]]'s servers. The shutdown of the website was seemingly announced when an image from a Yahoo presentation was posted online, however, Yahoo soon said that Delicious was to be sold, not shut down.
'''Delicious''' is a social bookmarks site where you can post and tag sites using [[Yahoo!]]'s servers. The shutdown of the website was seemingly announced when an image from a Yahoo presentation was posted online. Then Yahoo agreed to sell it, not shut it down, and in April 2011 it did so to AVOS, a company run by the founders of Youtube.
 
'''However''', users are required to accept the AVOS terms of service before their bookmarks are migrated to AVOS's system. All bookmarks that are not migrated by July 2011 will be lost.
 
 


== Backup Tools ==
== Backup Tools ==

Revision as of 17:47, 27 April 2011

Delicious
Delicious mainpage in 2010-12-16
Delicious mainpage in 2010-12-16
URL http://www.delicious.com
Status Unstable (being sold)
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Delicious is a social bookmarks site where you can post and tag sites using Yahoo!'s servers. The shutdown of the website was seemingly announced when an image from a Yahoo presentation was posted online. Then Yahoo agreed to sell it, not shut it down, and in April 2011 it did so to AVOS, a company run by the founders of Youtube.

However, users are required to accept the AVOS terms of service before their bookmarks are migrated to AVOS's system. All bookmarks that are not migrated by July 2011 will be lost.


Backup Tools

  • General Overview of backing up Delicious using the XML API. Up to date as of Sept 2008.
  • When logged in: Settings -> Export - "creates a list of all your bookmarks in a format understandable by most browsers".
  • XML Dump (requires username and password). Delicious doesn't like it if you try to call this more than once an hour or so. API details.

Vital Signs

Delicious was forseen to be closed when an image of a Yahoo presentation leaked on the internet stating it for "sunset", however Yahoo soon stated the site was to be sold.

However, if the website does not find a potential buyer, there is still the chance it may shut down. If that happens, fingers to the keyboards for backups, people!

--BlueMaxima 14:22, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

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