A letter to the del.icio.us folk at Yahoo!
Dear Yahoo!,
Things on the Internet die way too quickly. I was just going through my Liferea feeds list today, and noticed about half a dozen blogs that had died. Domains don’t resolve any longer, they’ve decided to stop blogging (and remove their blog posts), and so on. Highly annoying, seeing that I have bookmarked some of these sites in del.icio.us.
I’d pay a reasonable sum for del.icio.us (say, like how I pay for my Flickr Pro account) to take snapshots of the page when I add it to my del.icio.us feed. Something like a cache (like one from your competitor in search, Google Cache; heck even your search engine caches pages!). If I visit the link again via del.icio.us, it will ideally update (via a smart diff) the snapshot, if there’s new content. However, if the content is gone, I’ll always have the original snapshot to refer to.
I know I can muck around with Google Cache or even the Internet Archive, but its just added work. Worse, sometimes blog entries aren’t cached in either :(
Hope you implement something like this in the very near future.
Kind Regards,
Colin, long-time del.icio.us user
Technorati Tags: del.icio.us, yahoo!, suggestion, cached pages, snapshot, del.icio.us pro
why dont you tell them about furl bookmarking service? or better yet, use furl heh
I’m sure I’ve heard of a service like that, although I can’t remember the name of it right now. I’m sure it’s out there though, seek and ye shall find! :)
http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/archives/2004/06/furl_bookmarks.html — http://furl.net
I'm sure I've heard of a service like that, although I can't remember the name of it right now. I'm sure it's out there though, seek and ye shall find! :)