We’ve just reported that Yahoo may be closing down Delicious, its popular bookmarking service along with Yahoo Buzz and the Traffic APIs.
Here at The Next Web, we’ve gotten together a list of other great bookmarking services that are if you will, “healthy alternatives” to soon to be gone Delicious.
1. Google Bookmarks is one of the most popular bookmarking tools that is incredibly easy to use. It lets you sort by date and title and organize your bookmarks into lists.
2. Pinboard.in, while not free like the others ($6.98) is one of the most popular bookmarking sites out there, in which users are guaranteed to never lose their data.
3. Diigo is better known as “social bookmarking 2.0″ because it’s both a collaborative research tool and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site.
4. Historio.us: is a dead simple, easy to use one-click bookmarking site.
5. Zootool this creative and awesome web application places an emphasis on saving visual content, so it’s pretty much like if FFFFound, Tumblr and Delicious had a baby.
and how could we forget…
6. Mister Wong this European based social bookmarking tool has been around almost as long as delicious and should have an archive size equal to Delicious’. You can also connect Mister Wont to twitter and have it automatically import links. Oh and it’s also available in six different languages too.
Ironically, Google Bookmarks still tells people to use Firefox to import bookmarks — there’s no simple way to do it in Chrome, apparently. And likewise, Diigo does not have native Chrome support.
I’m really bummed about this. The list of these ‘solid’ alternatives doesn’t appeal to me much either. By the look of the features mentioned on their websites none of them can offer the solid feature set Delicious has to offer.
Google bookmarks looks really Google-ugly, and I thought the Delicious website could look smoother!
Pinboard.in sounds appealing, but their frontpage doesn’t really give me much information about the service itself. Why, Yahoo, why?!
@Jasper Pinboard.in is very much like del.icio.us, but forked at around 2008 and developed with many of the features I wish would have made it into del.icio.us since then.
@Jasper (But not really forked, because the source isn’t open, of course)
@Jasper There’s a pretty good rundown of Pinboard’s features at: http://pinboard.in/tour/.
Wow, Yahoo lays off of a ton of employees and kills one of their social products. What’s next on their strategy?
I’m going to start using Google Bookmarks more (I’m on Android and using a Chrome Notebook), but any way to make them more social? I loved the crowdsourcing aspect of Delicious, especially tags.
I’m using twitter for bookmarking and then I can easily search my tweets and bookmarks via
http://jetwick.com?u=timetabling&q=javascript
I love Delicious. The tool is very handy for the work I do, so I’m disappointed that Yahoo! is discontinuing it. Guess I’ll have to go tool shopping. :(
No love for Xmarks (formerly FoxMarks), just acquired by LastPass? Also a great alternative.
@Rick Castello i don’t think it’s a bookmarking service – it’s just a sync service no?
@Zee @Rick Castello I use Xmarks for both social bookmarking and cross-browser sync. Xmarks unseated delicious as my primary bookmarking resource over a year ago. Go to xmarks.com and do a search for a topic. It’ll return results for the most bookmarked sites on that topic. Social Darwinism at its best, independent of the influence of Google’s SEO algorithm. My only concern is, I’m not sure that part of the service remians now that it’s a LastPass company.
Don’t forget to mention FunMarx, which is owned by Fun.ly URL Shortener.
http://funmarx.com
http://fun.ly/bookmarks
Easy import from delicious!
We’ve been working on a collective/collaborative Google Doc re: Delicious alternatives. We’d love to have your options here: http://bit.ly/g3uaeR
Favbot offers automatic import and free hosting for your Delicious bookmarks. Once imported, you can use your bookmarks just like before except for the small change in the url http://www.favbot.com/import-delicious.html
You should check out the other features of Favbot too : http://www.favbot.com/ – it makes bookmarking obsolete, actually. The tool automatically bookmarks for you.
Favbot offers automatic import and free hosting for your Delicious bookmarks. Once imported, you can use your bookmarks just like before except for the small change in the url http://bit.ly/gH56wr
You should check out the other features of Favbot too : http://www.favbot.com/ – it makes bookmarking obsolete, actually. The tool automatically bookmarks for you.
Where in the hell is Diigo? They rock. http://www.diigo.com
@Scott Sirrom-Beemer uhhhh… #3?
@Scott Sirrom-Beemer uhhhh… #3?
@Scott Sirrom-Beemer uhhhh… #3?
@Scott Sirrom-Beemer uhhhh… #3?
The main reason I used delicious was for their popular bookmarks. It allowed me to quickly see what is hot on the net on any given day. The quality had dropped lately, but it was still useful. I dont really see that feature in any of the above services. What are the options here?
@rezzy
Pinboard has it: http://pinboard.in/popular/
As always…helpful and informative!
http://www.seobybert.com
With Delicious shutting down, I recommend everyone try YourVersion http://YourVersion.com. With YourVersion you can import both your Delicious bookmarks and tags. YourVersion is a real-time discovery engine that lets you discover, bookmark and share tailored web content (news, blogs, webpages, tweets and videos) by your specific interests. In addition to the website, we have free mobile apps (iPad, iPhone and Android) and browser tools for all browsers. I invite you to try it today!
My suggestion is to try http://licorize.com, it offers the possibility to import your delicious bookmarks and it has also a Firefox plugin, a Chrome or Safari extension and an Opera custom button.
I should add Evernote, a cloud / local storage superb piece of software which also imports ypur delicious bookmarks along with their tags. I am just now importing my +1400 bookmarks in. Having a tag organized Offline backup makes me a lot more relaxed now..
I also suggest Licorize: http://licorize.com/ great tool
The last two months I have been using http://historio.us I never looked back to delicious
This is all very well and good but (a) what happens when these services get pulled or die? Are any of them open source so someone else could host them? or (b) the value of our collective bookmarks decreases when they get thrown to a million different sites — you might as well google.
What is really needed is a webcrawler that will scrape Delicious’ tag or popular pages etc. and basically rebuild the entire database from them somewhere else. Unfortunately delicious’ API is completely user-centric so you’d have to scrape the HTML. Anyone interested in building or know of such a project please contact me via https://github.com/ericgj
@E G
I cannot recommend Pinboard highly enough. I find the fact that there is a small, one-time subscription fee very reassuring. It means that the developer is making money and the service is unlikely to disappear overnight. And it’s becoming popular enough that apps like Reeder and Instapaper have support built-in.
just discovered them, and now they’re going away..
We’ve launched http://trunk.ly as well – still an early beta product, but it’s a little different from some of the others, the focus is on collecting bookmarks from across the social web rather than a pure bookmarking site. There’s been a lot of request to add direct bookmarking in, so we’ll get that in today.
You should check out http://www.rinnku.com
We’re a social bookmarking + community news site (kinda like Digg + Delicious).