1 month ago
deusx : From Delicious to Mozilla at Spindrop - Welcome aboard, Dave! "Today I said my good-byes to Delicious.com and Yahoo! and tonight I went to the Addons Meetup @ Mozilla to get a sneak peak at what I'll be working on in less than two weeks. ... I'm also happy to be joining an organi
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Jeremy Zawodny : on url shorteners - on url shorteners: they are fail
nelson : URL shorteners bad - Thoughtful essay on how tinyurl, etc are bad for the Web
deusx : joshua's blog: on url shorteners - "So there are clear benefits for both the service (low cost of entry, potentially easy profit) and the linker (the quick rush of popularity). But URL shorteners are bad for the rest of us.I feel that shorteners are bad for the ecosystem as a whole. B
Andy Baio : Joshua Schachter on the dangers of URL shorteners - interesting that Archive Team is already working on crawling the TinyURL db
cobra libre : joshua schachter on url shorteners - Besides, there are plenty of services that are intended to be used for publicly pointing to links -- unlike Twitter. #
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deusx : V2 suggestion on WeGottaEat - "We did pull a lot of the design and functionality of V2 from the delicious website. We really like the simplicity and usefulness of that layout. ... Yeah, and it would be great if that layout was public domain, and not the work of many hours of many
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philgyford : Adactio: Journal—Magnoliloss - On backing up his Magnolia links and wondering how to back up the rest of his distributed online life. (via Blech)
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deusx : delicious star rater for Greasemonkey - "rate your most favourite bookmarks on delicious.com with an awesome star-rater. Rated bookmarks will be highlighted within the bookmarks list for easy recognition. The rating is processed with star-tags (★)."
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nelson : Magnolia outage - Such a shame
philgyford : Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline | Epicenter from Wired.com - Another week another case of people losing data they've entrusted to a hosted service. (via Lee)
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deusx : Joshua Schachter - Lessons Learned in Scaling and Building Social Systems | Kris Jordan - "Joshua Schachter is the creator of del.icio.us, creator of geoURL and co-creator of Memepool. Built delicious in 2003, sold it to Yahoo! in 2005, and left Yahoo! just a few years ago. 4+ million users. 100s of millions of urls indexed. He was there
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deusx : Delicious Founder Schachter Joins Google? (GOOG) - "Delicious founder Joshua Schachter left Yahoo (YHOO) last June, about 2.5 years after Yahoo bought his social bookmarking service. So what's he doing next? Schachter is joining Google (GOOG), according to a Twitter message sent by First Round
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deusx : Take that, Clamato beer. I made you be delicious. I win. on TwitPic - "Take that, Clamato beer. I made you be delicious. I win."
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deusx : scraplab : when i was younger... - "# Slurps down my delicious bookmarks tagged with a certain thing, such as ‘forgranny’. # Fetches the articles/blog posts in question. # Runs some heuristics on the HTML to drop as much of the advertising/navigation fluff as possible. # Generates
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deusx : Using del.icio.us as a writing summarization tool (by Jeremy Zawodny) - "It occurs to me that with a sufficient number of people bookmarking an article and selecting a short passage from it, I have a useful way to figure out what statement(s) most resonated with those readers (and possibly a much larger audience). It
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10 month ago
deusx : 0xDECAFBAD - UbiquityCommands - This page houses my experiments in creating Mozilla Labs Ubiquity commands. Feel free to subscribe to them, and hopefully I won't hose your browser. Oh yeah, and the first command posts to delicious.
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11 month ago
deusx : mitten muses, rants and raves about life, the internet, web design and art » link posts - I've had thoughts similar to this: "I’ve avoided having an automated bookmark posting plugin here, but now that Delicious allows 1000 character comments, it makes a good micro-blogging tool. So some Delicious posts should appear here and I’m
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11 month ago
deusx : Recent system:has:via Bookmarks on Delicious - All bookmarks with a via:* tag, voluntarily showing where the goods were first found.
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11 month ago
deusx : Recent system:has:shortcut Bookmarks on Delicious - "Recent system:has:shortcut Bookmarks" Still one of my favorite hidden Delicious features, partially because I wrote a version of it. Essentially a server-side rendition of Firefox's keyword shortcuts. Bookmark something tagged shortcut:
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11 month ago
deusx : Twitter / Delicious / favourites - "I'm Britta Gustafson, community manager intern. I find people talking about Delicious, and sometimes I talk back."
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11 month ago
deusx : How Yahoo dropped the del.icio.us ball with a pointless 3 year rewrite (from mod_perl to PHP) : reddit.com - I'm on pretty much the same page as Joshua. I was amazed it launched, which is a credit to the remaining team. It'll be interesting to see what happens now—given a 2-3 year innovation time-debt, a brand-new bespoke infrastructure, and a load
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11 month ago
deusx : Offer Personal Content Recommendations for Free with New MyBlogLog Plug-in - ReadWriteWeb - Hey, Delicious should finally do something like this: "When a MyBlogLog visitor visits a site with the plug-in running, the system looks at the tags that user provided for their interests when they created their MyBlogLog account. It then finds blog
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11 month ago
deusx : osunick · Delicious 2 = new hotness - "To me this is a great moment as I spent virtually all of the last 18 months preparing for this launch. While I did my best to make sure that my absence didn’t affect the launch, I still wondered if there was some loose end that I forgot to tie. If
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11 month ago
deusx : Aaron Mentele, Charisma 18 » delicious redesign - "I have no idea why Yahoo took so long to beat the ugly out of delicious. I’m just glad they didn’t beat the good stuff out in the process."
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11 month ago
deusx : deliciouslymad: Let's hear it for the... girl! - "THANKS SO MUCH, BRITTA, FOR ALL YOUR EXCELLENT HELP!" No longer working with Britta was one of the big sad bits of my leaving Yahoo!
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11 month ago
deusx : Stephen Hood's d2launch Bookmarks - "These are my bookmarks regarding coverage of the Delicious 2 launch"
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11 month ago
Andy Baio : Del.icio.us 2.0 goes live as Delicious.com - tag combos still work perfectly, so I'm happy
Linkorama : Oh happy day the new Delicious is here - I just had to boorkmark this
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13 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo - It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo: I saw this coming a mile away...
deusx : It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo - "The development of the new version of delicious seems to have almost stalled within Yahoo, and Joshua cited recent frustrations with the process as playing a part in his resignation."
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