Why I Left Del.icio.us

By Daniel Miessler on August 16th, 2007: Tagged as Internet | Social

Speed mostly. It was just too damned slow. Many of my Firefox Quicksearch queries took several seconds.

I’ve moved to Google Bookmarks. It lacks some features — most notably the social element and the ability to share all feeds over RSS — but I’m sure Google will eventually catch up and then surpass Yahoo! in those respects.

So I can still search all my bookmarks (I imported them from Del.icio.us) using the Firefox URL field, but now my queries are instantaneous.

What bookmark solution are you guys using?

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http://www.mindspill.org/ Mike

I use foxmarks. It basically synchronizes my firefox bookmarks with the foxmarks server. In this way I can keep bookmarks at home, work and other machines in sync just by using the foxmarks extension. Works a wonder for me.
http://www.mindspill.org Mike

I use foxmarks. It basically synchronizes my firefox bookmarks with the foxmarks server. In this way I can keep bookmarks at home, work and other machines in sync just by using the foxmarks extension. Works a wonder for me.
http://zhasper.com/ Zhasper

del.icio.us for linkblogging – feedburner has a thingy that fakes a blog post every day with my latest links and sticks it in my feed. I’d rather have a script that pulled them into drupal and made a real blog post, but I’ve never found one for drupal (and del.icio.us’s “thingies” don’t work -iirc, because they’re using an inccorect format for one of the fields)…

gBookmarks for my own bookmarks: there’s a whole bunch of extensions to keep them in ynch with browser bookmarks (although I’m not using any of them lately)
http://zhasper.com Zhasper

del.icio.us for linkblogging – feedburner has a thingy that fakes a blog post every day with my latest links and sticks it in my feed. I’d rather have a script that pulled them into drupal and made a real blog post, but I’ve never found one for drupal (and del.icio.us’s “thingies” don’t work -iirc, because they’re using an inccorect format for one of the fields)…

gBookmarks for my own bookmarks: there’s a whole bunch of extensions to keep them in ynch with browser bookmarks (although I’m not using any of them lately)
http://del.icio.us/britta britta

have you guys tried the new-ish del.icio.us bookmarks extension? http://del.icio.us/help/firefox/extensionnew – it synchronizes your del.icio.us bookmarks into firefox, which means you can search them from within firefox, so it’s usually quite a bit faster than searches on the website. (we know the website can be super-slow sometimes…we’re really working on that.)
http://del.icio.us/britta britta

have you guys tried the new-ish del.icio.us bookmarks extension? http://del.icio.us/help/firefox/extensionnew – it synchronizes your del.icio.us bookmarks into firefox, which means you can search them from within firefox, so it’s usually quite a bit faster than searches on the website. (we know the website can be super-slow sometimes…we’re really working on that.)

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