Delicious Will Stay On But What Are The Lessons
Image via CrunchBase Yesterday the techworld went crazy with the news about Yahoo shutting down the popular bookmarking service Delicious. There were calls for keeping the service alive and, as it happened in the case of XMarks, many even offered to pay for the service. The agony didn’t last long as Yahoo’s PR realized the [...]
Diigo Annotations – A Tool For Spammers
Diigo, a powerful social bookmarking site, is a favorite app for most of us here in Cloud Ave. Ever since I started using Diigo after reluctantly converting from Delicious, I have started doing evangelism for their service. I have been trying to impress as many friends and colleagues to go with Diigo, showing some of [...]
The Problem with URL Shorteners: ow.ly Server Errors
If you currently click on a ow.ly shortened URL you will be shown a server error page at ow.ly – not the URL you or the publisher intended you to see. Proponents of these services have so far ignored the main problem; trusting a third party. I guess they see the problem now when potential visitors to their [...]
