I noted my love for Mitch Hedberg when he died a year and a half ago. I was pleasantly surprised to see this Mitch Hedberg random quote generator among Charlie’s del.icio.us links.

Sshhh… you hear that? That was my productivity walking out the door.

I switched from to del.icio.us to Yahoo’s MyWeb awhile back because MyWeb saves cached versions of each page I bookmark. I recently decided to switch back to del.icio.us (I wasn’t using the cached versions enough to sacrifice the ease of use of del.icio.us). However, when I imported my bookmarks they all defaulted to private. I was told by del.icio.us support team that I would have to share each link individually (the reason, which is fair, is that if the import tool, as it currently stands, allowed bulk sharing it would be abused by link spammers).

I have over 1700 links currently bookmarked.

Has anyone “found” a faster way to do this?

Update: According to del.icio.us support (who, I might add, are really quick to answer emails!) they are working on a solution to this problem.

I just logged into Del.icio.us and noticed that all of my bookmarks are gone. I was about to send an email to the team but figured I should do my due diligence before blaming the mass deletion on their end. I sincerely doubted that I had managed to delete all of my bookmarks (300-400), I don’t even think Del.icio.us allows users to delete all of their bookmarks in one fell swoop (outside of deleting one’s whole account).

But I managed to do it.

You see, I recently downloaded Flock and one of its highly touted features is its integration with Del.icio.us. While I understood the idea of sites I favorited in my browser being added to my Del.icio.us account, I didn’t get that if I deleted a site from my favorites folder in Flock, it would be removed from Del.icio.us account. While it makes perfect sense in retrospect (yes, I feel like an idiot), Flock might want to make that “total integration” concept a bit more clear.

If you don’t want to integrate your flock bookmarks and your del.icio.us account go to Tools -> Accounts and Services and uncheck “share favorites.”

I have primarily been using Yahoo’s MyWeb, so I didn’t lose all that much data. However, if I didn’t make the connection between deleting seemingly local data and its effects on my remote data, the more technologically inept users that follow me will certainly have some accidents that they may not so easily shrug off.

I am interested to hear mroe about this deal. Yahoo’s MyWeb2.0 seemed to have most of the functionality that del.icio.us had and it had the added benefit of saving a cached copy of the web page - a feature that del.icio.us was sorely lacking.

I wonder if they bought it for the brand or if del.icio.us has something on the inside that the average user is not aware of (besides a ton of data). I do hope that they consolidate the two services.

I am becoming a bigger and bigger fan of Yahoo as they acquire some of the web’s most useful services - del.icio.us, flickr, upcoming.

Update:

I just realized that almost no one is using Yahoo’s MyWeb2.0 (what an awful name). As of today, the entire service only has 459,842 pages and 110,620 tags. I just misplaced the stats for del.icio.us but they tower over that. So, Yahoo wasn’t only buying data, they were buying users.

I think del.icio.us just updated its interface while I was on the site.

Very disorienting.

Very cool.

However, knowing me it could have been that way for weeks and I just didn’t notice.