Google saves del.icio.us! February 18, 2011 3:56 PM Subscribe
As a follow-up to this thread, Google debuts tool to save your del.icio.us bookmarks.
More info here. Thank god, I didn't want to have to deal with the various workarounds mentioned in the original thread.
More info here. Thank god, I didn't want to have to deal with the various workarounds mentioned in the original thread.
I found the same thing. My Google Bookmarks had a single link to a location on a map that I accidentally clicked on my phone once over a year ago.
I'm guessing they turned some sort of internal link-storage system into the product and probably figured, "People are going to be stoked to be able to finally access their previously 'bookmarked' links here!" Maybe? Yeah, makes for a bad first experience with the site.
posted by pb (staff) at 4:25 PM on February 18, 2011
I'm guessing they turned some sort of internal link-storage system into the product and probably figured, "People are going to be stoked to be able to finally access their previously 'bookmarked' links here!" Maybe? Yeah, makes for a bad first experience with the site.
posted by pb (staff) at 4:25 PM on February 18, 2011
John Cohen: "Question: I just went to Google Bookmarks to see what it's like, and I see it already has about 20 bookmarks for me, mostly from 2008 and 2009. How is this possible, since I don't remember ever using (or even knowing about) Google Bookmarks in the past? Is this one of those Buzz-like things where Google starts using your own social site for you in order to get you to feel like you're already in the middle of using the site"
Where you using Chrome at the time?
posted by boo_radley at 4:31 PM on February 18, 2011
Where you using Chrome at the time?
posted by boo_radley at 4:31 PM on February 18, 2011
Mine all full of porn! Why is that?
posted by cjorgensen at 4:33 PM on February 18, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by cjorgensen at 4:33 PM on February 18, 2011 [4 favorites]
Not sure about the saved bookmarks issue mentioned above, but I did the import and it worked seamlessly. (I don't work for Google, btw.)
posted by hampanda at 4:39 PM on February 18, 2011
posted by hampanda at 4:39 PM on February 18, 2011
Chrome has a bookmark sync feature available from the application preferences.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:44 PM on February 18, 2011
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:44 PM on February 18, 2011
Mine all full of porn! Why is that?
And why aren't you sharing?!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:20 PM on February 18, 2011
And why aren't you sharing?!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:20 PM on February 18, 2011
There may well be no consistent logic behind it, but I'd rather not share my bookmarks with google. They corral a large slab of my digital self already, but I'm going to remain a holdout on bookmarks until I'm quite sure that delicious won't continue in some guise or other.
Of course, I am probably just waiting for the inevitable news that google has bought delicious from yahoo.
posted by peacay at 7:08 PM on February 18, 2011
Of course, I am probably just waiting for the inevitable news that google has bought delicious from yahoo.
posted by peacay at 7:08 PM on February 18, 2011
Well - I just did it, but can't say much for the interface. Still, glad to have them backed up somewhere - this is something that's been in the back of my mind since the news broke. Another little chore. Now, it's done. That's Googly!
posted by Miko at 7:38 PM on February 18, 2011
posted by Miko at 7:38 PM on February 18, 2011
There's been some other products (toolbar maybe? Chrome 2 Phone?) that used the same backend, if you ever touched any of those it might explain the bookmarks you saw. I'm pretty sure there was no other pre-populating.
posted by wildcrdj at 7:50 PM on February 18, 2011
posted by wildcrdj at 7:50 PM on February 18, 2011
Where you using Chrome at the time?
Nope. I have tried Chrome more recently, but back in 2008-2009, I used a Mac OS that was incompatible with Chrome.
posted by John Cohen at 9:01 PM on February 18, 2011
Nope. I have tried Chrome more recently, but back in 2008-2009, I used a Mac OS that was incompatible with Chrome.
posted by John Cohen at 9:01 PM on February 18, 2011
This makes a lot of sense for Google; I don't know why they didn't provide a tool like this before. So I imported my bookmarks into Google Bookmarks just to see how it works, and then I decided to try out the "Lists" feature...and the first thing that came to mind was to make a list of my favorite bookmarks and quotes about Delicious. Hehe.
posted by dreamyshade at 9:32 PM on February 18, 2011
posted by dreamyshade at 9:32 PM on February 18, 2011
I like the general idea of a Delicious-like site run by Google, but I can't use this site. I'm too afraid Google will make weird additions that are beyond my control, albeit possibly based on my search history. Google is so good at so many things, it's unfortunate they keep botching their attempts to make "social" sites.
posted by John Cohen at 9:37 PM on February 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by John Cohen at 9:37 PM on February 18, 2011 [1 favorite]
Is the internet just about aggregation of metaphor?
posted by parmanparman at 9:55 PM on February 18, 2011
posted by parmanparman at 9:55 PM on February 18, 2011
For what it's worth, I use the heck out of Google (search, mail, MX for my domains, docs, reader, maps, Chrome browser) and it doesn't have any bookmarks helpfully preloaded for me. I'd be curious where that came from.
posted by cj_ at 2:30 AM on February 19, 2011
posted by cj_ at 2:30 AM on February 19, 2011
I don't like this at all, but only because I gave up on delicious a couple of years ago and manually added everything I had in delicious into Google Bookmarks. If I had to do it that way, so should all of you ;-)
posted by dg at 2:53 AM on February 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by dg at 2:53 AM on February 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
This is rather belated of them... I used a bookmarklet that went up the same day the news did.
What's the current status of Delicious anyway?
posted by Gordafarin at 6:23 AM on February 19, 2011
What's the current status of Delicious anyway?
posted by Gordafarin at 6:23 AM on February 19, 2011
Gives me a 500 error. Has anyone imported 10,000+ bookmarks successfully? Because I am both a jerk and a coder, I've resubmitted a few times just because I like to think there's a server crying out under the load. Probably at Yahoo.
posted by yerfatma at 6:45 AM on February 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by yerfatma at 6:45 AM on February 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
Don't know about the future of Delicious, but it's certainly still up right now and there have been no warnings that they might close - I'd like to think there would at least be a 24 hour SAVE YOUR THINGS NOW! note or some such.
I got a Pinboard account back at the first Delicious scare, but right now it pretty much just serves as an $8 Delicious backup system. (So, nice job, Yahoo. That $8 could have been yours.)
posted by maryr at 9:23 AM on February 19, 2011
I got a Pinboard account back at the first Delicious scare, but right now it pretty much just serves as an $8 Delicious backup system. (So, nice job, Yahoo. That $8 could have been yours.)
posted by maryr at 9:23 AM on February 19, 2011
I for one welcome my new bookmarking overlords. Yahoo is notorious for just fucking things up by killing them without warning or ceremony. Google can be weird / patriarchal / make bad decisions, but at least they've not arbitrarily destroyed my content (unlike Flickr, which killed a friend's photos with no warning, which is uncool).
posted by Medieval Maven at 11:31 AM on February 19, 2011
posted by Medieval Maven at 11:31 AM on February 19, 2011
(unlike Flickr, which killed a friend's photos with no warning, which is uncool).
Is his name Mirco Wilhelm? Because Flickr restored his photos (over 3,000 of them) after accidentally deleting them. If his name isn't Mirco Wilhelm, maybe your friend can contact Flickr and get similarly happy results.
posted by John Cohen at 1:20 PM on February 19, 2011
Is his name Mirco Wilhelm? Because Flickr restored his photos (over 3,000 of them) after accidentally deleting them. If his name isn't Mirco Wilhelm, maybe your friend can contact Flickr and get similarly happy results.
posted by John Cohen at 1:20 PM on February 19, 2011
I'm staying at Delicious. I mean Yahoo is a bit of a digital shitwagon and all, but.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 12:50 AM on February 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 12:50 AM on February 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
I don't think the importing option is new. I checked my Google bookmarks and there are a bunch I imported back on 12-17, the day after the "leak".
posted by soelo at 6:37 PM on February 20, 2011
posted by soelo at 6:37 PM on February 20, 2011
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