i might just hack something together with drupal. I got 70% of the way there (took like an hour) once before and gave up when I realized it was easier and more useful just to, you know, use del.icio.us.Don't tempt me to make a distro, man. DON'T TEMPT ME.
Email? The homepage? search ? mobile? advertising? Yawn.It seems to me that focusing on mediocre, yet currently profitable products at the expense of your innovative best-of-breed offerings is not a path to long-term success.
You know what I don’t see in there? Flickr. Photos. I’m assuming that you consider Flickr one of those “underperforming and non-core products.”
there are worse things than being DDOS'ed by people trying to give you moneyposted by zamboni at 4:34 PM on December 16, 2010 [8 favorites]
What went wrong? The problems that hosed Yahoo go back a long time, practically to the beginning of the company. They were already very visible when I got there in 1998. Yahoo had two problems Google didn't: easy money, and ambivalence about being a technology company.posted by zamboni at 5:04 PM on December 16, 2010 [4 favorites]
"Describe the process involved in creating for yourself a social bookmarking site on Delicious, Connotea or other Web 2.0 site in order for you to catch and retain your favourite websites. Marks – 5%"That's a direct cut'n'paste from an 'advanced' info retrieval course I've recently done. I was reading MeFi, goofing off from answering that exact question, when I saw this post.
Tonight I thought I'd go loot a little from a burning building owned by a company not interested in putting out the fire. Specifically, I went to extract the top 50 links to pages that had been tagged by users with both the words "Twitter" and "International". Where else are you going to find a reading list of the best collected written works and other multimedia about almost any given topic? Unfortunately, automated extraction is blocked by the site and the rickety, antiquated API appears focused on returning you little more than your own bookmarks. If there's a clear way to accomplish export of not just my bookmarks, but all bookmarks with one or more tags, from all users - I haven't been able to find it yet.posted by zamboni at 9:13 PM on December 16, 2010 [1 favorite]
What you do with it afterwards, that's a different question.https://api.del.icio.us/v1/tags/bundles/all?
Retrieve all of a user's bundles.
Arguments
&bundle={NAME}
(optional) Fetch just the named bundle.
Example Response
<bundles>
<bundle name="music" tags="ipod mp3 music" />
</bundles>
"They really get this social software stuff; they're No. 1 in that," he says. "They've done a largely competent job of absorbing other companies and products without ruining them. Flickr still stands--it's huge, and they continue to put resources into it. They understood my vision, and they didn't argue with it. They led with 'We want you to come here and tell us where to go.'"posted by lodurr at 4:28 PM on December 19, 2010
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