Delicious is dead, long live Delicious!
Dec. 16th, 2010 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mollyporterDespite the fact that I'm still a little bit in denial, and I'm still hoping Delicious will be saved somehow, I find it necessary to figure out where I'm going next with all my web-based bookmarking needs. So I'm writing up a series of posts to review and compare other social/web based bookmarking tools to Delicious, to see if I can find my next social bookmarking tool.
In order to find a suitable replacement, I first need to layout my criteria.
Things I Need From A Delicious Replacement Tool
. Obviously, it needs to let me bookmark things so that I can return to them later
. Tags are a must - I need to be able to organize my bookmarks so I can find them again or sort by category.
. I need to be able to access them from anywhere, even if I'm using a device that isn't mine, so it has to be web-based.
. I really do use Delicious socially - not in the sense of having conversations, but in the sense of sharing content. I need a tool that will let me navigate my friends bookmarks as easily as I navigate my own, and allow them to do the same.
. I also want to be able to search everybody's bookmarks by tag or keywords - and the chance to see how popular any given bookmarked URL is. I'm going to trust a bookmark tagged "Recipe:guava" saved 100 times way more than I'm going to trust a bookmark with the same tag saved only twice.
. That being said, I don't necessarily want EVERYONE to see EVERYTHING I bookmark! For one thing, the Holidays are here and I can't let people I'm shopping for peek at the product reviews I save! So an option to save selected bookmarks privately is a necessity.
. I'm not really ready to go through a whole lot of hassle to bookmark things - Delicious lets me click a button in my browser's toolbar (or just hit Apple+D), enter my tags (plus a title or some notes if I want to), and hit save! Easy peasy, pumpkin pie! The replacement needs to have a comparable level of simplicity
. It's gotta be free. Sorry, Pinboard.in, but there's enough things in my life to pay for, and social bookmarking is not going to be one of them.
. Must support high-volume bookmarking. Bad luck, Historio.us. I currently have 1126 bookmarks on Delicious, and that number will only grow as I continue to bookmark. There's no way the 300 bookmark limit on your free trial will cut it for me.
I've compiled a list of websites/applications/services to look into, from various sources on the web. Those two-sentence write ups aren't going to do it for me, I need to evaluate these services and see how they stack up against Delicious.
. Google Bookmarks
. Firefox Weave/Sync
. Xmarks
. Diigo
. Evernote
. Zootool
. Mister Wong
Edited: So, as it turns out, Delicious is not facing imminent demise and will likely continue in a post-Yahoo! life. Which is AWESOME news! Because I am a huge Del.icio.us fan and don't want it to go away. What that does mean is that this project is much less urgent that I felt it to be when I initially made the post. So, due to that and the fact that I have recently started a second job and no longer have quite so much free time to research and write blog posts (because I was really good at it before) - this project will proceed, but at a much more leisurely pace. Expect reviews to come sort of eh, whenever.
In conclusion: DELICIOUS LIVES!
In order to find a suitable replacement, I first need to layout my criteria.
Things I Need From A Delicious Replacement Tool
. Obviously, it needs to let me bookmark things so that I can return to them later
. Tags are a must - I need to be able to organize my bookmarks so I can find them again or sort by category.
. I need to be able to access them from anywhere, even if I'm using a device that isn't mine, so it has to be web-based.
. I really do use Delicious socially - not in the sense of having conversations, but in the sense of sharing content. I need a tool that will let me navigate my friends bookmarks as easily as I navigate my own, and allow them to do the same.
. I also want to be able to search everybody's bookmarks by tag or keywords - and the chance to see how popular any given bookmarked URL is. I'm going to trust a bookmark tagged "Recipe:guava" saved 100 times way more than I'm going to trust a bookmark with the same tag saved only twice.
. That being said, I don't necessarily want EVERYONE to see EVERYTHING I bookmark! For one thing, the Holidays are here and I can't let people I'm shopping for peek at the product reviews I save! So an option to save selected bookmarks privately is a necessity.
. I'm not really ready to go through a whole lot of hassle to bookmark things - Delicious lets me click a button in my browser's toolbar (or just hit Apple+D), enter my tags (plus a title or some notes if I want to), and hit save! Easy peasy, pumpkin pie! The replacement needs to have a comparable level of simplicity
. It's gotta be free. Sorry, Pinboard.in, but there's enough things in my life to pay for, and social bookmarking is not going to be one of them.
. Must support high-volume bookmarking. Bad luck, Historio.us. I currently have 1126 bookmarks on Delicious, and that number will only grow as I continue to bookmark. There's no way the 300 bookmark limit on your free trial will cut it for me.
I've compiled a list of websites/applications/services to look into, from various sources on the web. Those two-sentence write ups aren't going to do it for me, I need to evaluate these services and see how they stack up against Delicious.
. Google Bookmarks
. Firefox Weave/Sync
. Xmarks
. Diigo
. Evernote
. Zootool
. Mister Wong
Edited: So, as it turns out, Delicious is not facing imminent demise and will likely continue in a post-Yahoo! life. Which is AWESOME news! Because I am a huge Del.icio.us fan and don't want it to go away. What that does mean is that this project is much less urgent that I felt it to be when I initially made the post. So, due to that and the fact that I have recently started a second job and no longer have quite so much free time to research and write blog posts (because I was really good at it before) - this project will proceed, but at a much more leisurely pace. Expect reviews to come sort of eh, whenever.
In conclusion: DELICIOUS LIVES!
