Note to del.icio.us: Sorry to see you sell out
Last week I briefly discussed del.icio.us and how the service has replaced .mac as my bookmark sync. Essentially, I have my bookmarks in my browser, but also would like to have them available when I am not at my computer. Most of the time this translates to when I am at work. I liked del.icio.us for my own bookmarks, but did not really care about the whole community thing.
I am rethinking the service ever since I read that Yahoo! bought them (Yahoo! will be written as Yahoo because punctuation in a name is rid.culo.us!). I am not a fan of Yahoo and I got rid of my Yahoo account long ago when I was getting more SPAM than I could count. I have tried several Yahoo services which I have found to suck. This is also the reason why I have not jumped on the flickr bandwagon. I have read good and bad comments about flickr and thought that this would be a good way to share photos.
But to use flickr I would need a Yahoo account, which I really do not care to get. I try to avoid Yahoo the same way I avoid AOL. All my bookmarks that are on del.icio.us are located in my browser in case the site were to go down for any reason, which is possible with Yahoo. For now, I am not going to be adding any more bookmarks to del.icio.us and will be using .mac sync for my bookmarks until I can find a replacement.
For the developers of del.icio.us the big paycheck from Yahoo is wonderful, but for some of the users this may not be so wonderful. From what I have been reading, it is a mixed bag. Currently flickr is going to Yahoo accounts and I know that del.icio.us will go the same route. It would not shock me if Yahoo starts a pay service with flickr and del.icio.us. Such as a premium account would allow you more features for bookmarks and photos that are not allowed with a basic free account. Of course if that does not happen then they will probably slap you with so many advertisements that you will think SPAM is great.
Let’s look at a Yahoo service. Y! Music is not a service I have tried for the fact that I use a Mac and Yahoo Music does not support Macintosh. Not that it matters because I use iTunes which blows away Yahoo’s service. Not sure why anyone would use that piece of shit. I can leave that rant for another day.
It is too bad that a good idea has to be swallowed up by a giant. It seems that Yahoo and Google are fighting head-to-head on centralizing internet services with Microsoft not far behind. I fear that any good small company that has a great service will be gobbled up by a larger company to the point where small players have no chance. Also seems as though the great services come out of smaller companies.
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