Ok, i've had it.
MyWeb, that service that i generally sing the generally unsung praises of? i've stopped singing.
In fact, the more clever of you may note that i've already switched stuff over to using del.icio.us.
Why the sudden change of heart? Well, to put it bluntly, i got fed up with trying to convince MyWeb to do what i want. Now, i get to try and convince Del.icio.us to do it. Notably, share my links in the right sidebar the way that i want them to, with descriptions.
Of course, switching everything over to del.icio.us is a painful battle. Although i can easily export MyWeb links out of MyWeb and into del.icio.us, all 47 pages of those newly included links are marked private, and no, it's by design that there's no way to swap them over to public consumption. Also, while MyWeb helpfully includes tags that are comma delimited, del.icio.us uses spaces and kinda chokes on them. Bad. So i'll be cleaning up those tags as i can.
On the other hand, del.icio.us is FAR more widely used than MyWeb ever is. That means more stuff is set up to use it. i'll probably write up a little greasemonkey script to add del.icio.us searches to my Y!Search results so i can get that increadibly useful feature back.
Am i completely divorcing myself from MyWeb? No, probably not. The search history is kinda nice to have, as is the ability to snapshot a page, and there are a few other things. i prefer to think of it more like 'having an illicit affair on the ice queen bitch'.
Hmm… perhaps a court ordered separation is due.
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Øystein Fledsberg2006-10-23 22:42:50On getting del.icio.us results into Yahoo search: http://www.fledsbo.no/wordpress/2006/02/03/goofd/
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Hetta2006-10-24 05:22:08MyWeb was immensely useful at first. Then they disabled their "block this domain" feature. I asked about it once or twice (no replies), and stopped using myweb after that. Really, is there a better way to get spam-free search results? Giving users the chance to filter them out as they find them is absolutely brilliant. Grumble.
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pmp2006-10-24 07:46:29We are one big happy company, right? I see no reason to have two competing technologies. Has the public answered the question for us? Can we just pick the winner, convert the loser, and be done with it?
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jrconlin2006-10-24 08:06:20Øystein: Oooh, thanks! That'll give me something to work with. Hetta: From what I heard, the blocker was "too successful" and had to be shut down because of data storage issues. Yeah, feel free to translate that as "someone f*cked up and took a shortcut on the design". I'm just as pissed, but all my ranting has fallen on deaf ears. Pmp: At first I assumed this was more like Flickr v. Y!Photos (Extrovert v. Introvert). I'm not so sure that's the case anymore.
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mookie2006-10-24 08:11:56I toyed with the idea of switching away from MyWeb, I still haven't. Maybe I'll give it a go. Yes, we are one big happy company :) MyWeb/del.icio.us, Photos/Flickr, etc, etc. Even though there are competing techs, I am glad that we aren't merging them together and just letting things run as they did before we acquired them.
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Anne Marie2006-10-24 09:26:37I've asked several times for My Web to take me directly to "My Bookmarks". I don't care about what is "Interesting Today".
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Callous2006-10-24 19:12:19Some terrible hack at iconophobia wrote code for integrating RSS feeds like del.icio.us into Wordpress blogs in whatever format you'd like. Ahem. Not to name names or anything. Cough.
