Dec 16, 2010 22:26
Hi all,
We've seen the news that Yahoo is pulling the plug on Delicious, and we're currently investigating alternatives. The two mentioned most frequently are Pinboard and Diigo. If anyone has experience with Delicious alternatives, let us know!
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I am really surprised that none of the major alternatives I've seen so far have anything like tag bundling. :/
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Yeah, I've been surprised by that, too. I haven't yet waded through the big list of social bookmarking sites (and won't be able to until after Christmas), but I've got to believe there's something in there that lets you handle thousands of tags?
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Google Bookmarks has a much more efficient way to add things to lists, but it's still...not ideal.
So far most of the other sites I see recommended are very focused on visual thumbnails and caching...not the most useful features for indexing book reviews (I'm sort of baffled as to what visual thumbnails ARE good for--I can't tell from a thumbnail of a costuming website whether it covers 16th century Italian or 14th century Japanese, personally. That's what text notes and tags are for!).
I'm frankly surprised Yahoo isn't trying to raise capital to save or sell Delicious, as Xmarks did--especially given the foothold Delicious got in the education world. There are a lot of unhappy libraries out there.
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...and it might be that a bookmarking site isn't the best choice for indexing book reviews. But going away from finding a new bookmarking site means throwing away a decent chunk of the work that's been done. And I really don't want to do that.
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I dunno, but I'm not thrilled with any of the review sites out there, either.
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