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[nonethefewer]

I use Delicious to manage my bookmarks.  My reasons:

* Yay tags.
* Yay bookmarks that are not bound to any one computer.
* Bonus, the Firefox addon stands in for the usual Ctrl-D behaviour, which is a win for me.

I don't really care about the social aspect of it, to be honest, and have never quite understood it to begin with.  (What the hell do I care that 502 other people have bookmarked this one thing, apart from that it might make it easier for me to find?)  Doesn't make it useless, mind, just not a criterion in my webapp shopping.

Should I move over to something else, like Google Bookmarks or Diigo?

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[brynndragon.livejournal.com]

I also want to know, since I too have no use for a social bookmarking tool, but would love a cloud-based bookmarking tool.

[insert rant about how not everything on the internet needs to be a social network]

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Fandom is upset because Delicious is used a lot by them, but Yahoo! is waffling on buying vs. destroying it, or so I found.  Me, I was just curious if there was something that might be better out there.

(Also, I agree with you entirely re social things.  There was some spoof page in the world, of an antisocial social app with no join button, which I loved forever.)

I'm probably going to migrate over to Google Bookmarks, as I use Google for a million other things anyhow, but I figured I'd check-see if there was some Awesome Thing I was missing.  (Like something that would let me post daily snippets to DW, like Delicious used to do.)

[brynndragon.livejournal.com]

That's why I'm mad at Yahoo about the whole thing (I mean, on top of destroying my bookmarks and all). They're giving up because bookmarks fail as a social app, when that already seemed like the least-likely useful function of Delicious for them in the first place. I figured they were going to at least try a recommendation function ("given the links you have bookmarked, you might like these links too" - I would love something like this for my webcomics), or a way of enhancing search by making it more about what you-specific want rather what you-general wants. Trying something wacky and seeing if it works is fine, but ditching the whole project as useless before trying other obvious and probably more fruitful avenues of utility is stupid as hell.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

http://bookshop.livejournal.com/1080038.html?format=light

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Apparently some professors use Delicious to share links with their students, or have their students come up with a set of class resources.

[tori04.livejournal.com]

I have found http://www.xmarks.com/ to be very functional.