Extra Future[Apparently Maciej acquired it for $35,000][link]. Former Delicious community manager (and fellow [waferbaby][wafer] alumni) Britta Gustafson is running [the twitter account][twitter].
[link]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/12/15746916/pinboard-founder-maciej-ceglowski-interview-yahoo-delicious-fandom “The founder of Pinboard on why understanding fandom is good for business – The Verge”
[wafer]: https://waferbaby.com “waferbaby”
[twitter]: https://twitter.com/delicious “Delicious on Twitter”
[I doubt it’ll do much good, but I’m really glad to see Yahoo! trying *something*.][link]
[link]: http://yahoopolicy.tumblr.com/post/60753842342/yahoo-files-suit-demanding-greater-accountability-from “Yahoo Files Suit Demanding Greater Accountability from the U.S. Government | Yahoo Global Public Policy”
[Jason Scott][link]:
>Yahoo! are about to delete all user-generated content on Yahoo! Video and that is really busting my crank, as well as the crank of a lot of people that have joined Archive Team to rescue it. We’re now to the point that the whole process is pretty smooth, and we’re getting in the end-time amount of stuff left to do, but we need your help, UNIX-knowing person with a server having more than 500gb free. Oh, you know who you are.
The Archive Team do important work that is worthy of your money and time.
[link]: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3011 “ASCII by Jason Scott / Archive Team Yahoo Video Final Push (and a rousing speech)”
You were responsible or many of the most retch-inducing websites on the internet, and you only got worse with time. We’ll miss you.
[xkcd is GeoCities-ified][xkcd] ([saved image][image]).
[link]: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/10/geocities-closing.html “GeoCities’ time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today | Technology | Los Angeles Times”
[xkcd]: http:xkcd.com “XKCD”
[image]: http://extrafuture.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/xkcd-geocities.jpg “xkcd’s homage”
[Jesper answers my call][link]. Makes sense, now.
[link]: http://waffle.wootest.net/2009/07/29/pr-speak-msft-yhoo-bing/ “waffle → Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Microsoft and Yahoo!’s Joint Choice. Value. Innovation. Announcement About Sharing Search Engine and Advertisement Technology”
[Earlier today Yahoo and Microsoft signed a 10 year deal][deal] which sees Yahoo not developing any new search technologies, and using Bing for it’s algorithms. Like most of you, I fail to see how reducing the main Search players from 3 to 2 creates “more innovation”, but does anyone even read these press releases anymore? [The official site for the deal][site] is begging for a PR-Speak-To-English translation.
Also important: [What happens to BOSS, Delicious, Search Monkey and Yahoo’s other search products][link]? (via [Andy Baio][andy])
[link]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_of_yahoo_news_delicious_boss_more_innovation.php “Yahoo’s Bing Deal Puts Delicious, BOSS & More at Risk”
[site]: http://www.choicevalueinnovation.com/thedeal/Default.aspx “Press Site for the Deal”
[andy]: http://waxy.org “Waxy”
[deal]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/its_official_microsoft_and_yahoo_announce_search_deal.php “Microsoft and Yahoo announce search deal”
[The Yahoo! Query Language is strange][link].
[link]: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/07/yql_insert.html “YQL: INSERT INTO internet (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)”