Comments on: Let’s Buy Delicious Back from Yahoo!

By: Jorn

Jorn — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:43:19 +0000

Chris Whipple predicts Google Reader is eating delicious’s lunch (?!) and as I explore its sharing options I’m starting to agree.

By: Brett O'Connor

Brett O'Connor — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:38:54 +0000

Thanks for your comments, everyone. If anything, I’m happy to see that this idea resonates with people besides me, even if it is probably both financially and technically impossible. As Les said, perhaps just making enough noise could get Y!s attention, which might be good.

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:54:08 +0000

Kickstarter as a viable buyback plan notwithstanding – the best extraction option, IMHO, is to buy back the data and rewrite the software. Not that there’s not good work there, but it’s entangled with a lot of Yahoo! tech and infrastructure that you’d spend a long time excising.

Beyond pinboard.in, the next best bet is to pick a self-hosted clone package and make it federate. Then, work hard to make it catch up to the last 3-4 years worth of social software developments missed (eg. kind of what Jorn said)

Of course on the other hand, I wonder if a loud enough noise would make someone at Y! wonder what was this delicious thing and why anyone cared about it? Naah…

By: Andy Baio

Andy Baio — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:44:04 +0000

I love the sentiment, but it’s definitely far beyond a community fundraising effort. Unless you can think of a way to raise eight figures, it’s off the table. And it’s particular poorly-suited for Kickstarter, since you’re raising money for an unknown sum and would have to refund everyone somehow when negotiations fail.

If you’re serious about this, I’d recommend approaching Yahoo before kicking off fundraising and document the process.

By: Nicola D'Agostino

Nicola D'Agostino — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:10:11 +0000

Would Yahoo! ever sell it? I’m afraid the answer is no.

nda

By: Brett O'Connor

Brett O'Connor — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:52:49 +0000

Yea, there are several good clones. Pinboard is another one. But Delicious is more than just it's software that makes it up at this point.

By: Marcus Ramberg

Marcus Ramberg — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:41:06 +0000

RJBS already made a clone of delicious called Rubric.

* You can see it in action at http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric
* The source is on CPAN – http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Rubric-0.144/

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:29:20 +0000

more twitter like? christ almighty…
anyway, i’ll totally spend my weed money on this.

By: jmb

jmb — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:06:47 +0000

id throw some money down

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:53:14 +0000

or maybe archive.org ? This is going to take a lot of money.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:43:48 +0000

We should try to get New Museum / Rhizome.org since they’ve been such big proponents of internet-based art around delish…

By: timb

timb — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:45:02 +0000

i think there is some precedent for this:

* webshots was bought back by the founders
* i believe webrings was bought back from yahoo
* stumbleupon was bought back from ebay by the founders

By: Jorn

Jorn — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:39:07 +0000

It needs some rewriting anyway, to make it more Twitter-like, flickr-like, and HypeMachine-like. I vote re-write… but I agree this is an important debate.