Concern about social bookmarking?
Submitted by robingrant on Fri, 2007-02-23 19:00.
On a personal note, I love the idea of delicious for keeping up with websites for reserach projects. I do a lot of research for writing projects and have found it difficult to organize the material and sites I find. I might be a little concerned, though, if I were researching a dissertation, for example, that delicious might go bankrupt or sell out or crash--and there would go my research. Maybe this is a little far-fetched if it's a fairly big concern like delicious. Then again, life's uncertain. I guess I'm used to thinking of how to back up everything! Any thoughts?
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Extremely valid concern, and
Extremely valid concern, and definitely something to keep in mind: "can I get my data out of this thing?"
In the case of del.icio.us, hit the "settings" link, and you'll see an "export/backup" option in the second column of links. This will give you an HTML representation of all your bookmarked URLs, including (if you wish) tags and notes.
JINX!!!! Are we always on
JINX!!!!
Are we always on the same wavelength or what?
You're the good twin. :)
You're the good twin. :)
Robin, you do make a very
Robin, you do make a very good point. While this may not be a significant concern with del.icio.us (since it is owned by Yahoo!), it is a good idea to consider the viability of any social software service when deciding which one to use. About 18 months ago, I switched from del.icio.us to Blinklist (moving my bookmarks over) and became disappointed later on by service outages. So I recently exported my bookmarks and imported them into del.icio.us. The beauty of del.icio.us is that you can actually export your bookmarks to a standard format that will allow you to import them into another tool. It also provides you with a backup of everything you bookmarked that you can store locally. When logged in, click on settings and then look for export / backup.
Great advice, as usual!
Great advice, as usual!