Moving to a New Online Bookmarking Service: RainDrop.io

RainDrop bookmark manager home page highlighting the two-pane interface.

In 2006, after years of saving bookmarks in the browser, I started using an online bookmarking service.

I was tired of opening up one of the three browsers I used, only to remember the bookmarks I saved were in another browser.

An online bookmarking service meant I wouldn’t need to use one specific browser, which was one of my goals.

As well as being better able to tag, organize, and collect my bookmarks.

Continue reading Moving to a New Online Bookmarking Service: RainDrop.io

How to Use Pinboard to Search Your Twitter Likes

As I was reading my Twitter stream this morning, Nathan Smith’s tweet caught my attention.

I agree, Nathan. It makes no sense that Twitter doesn’t allow you to search your favorited, what are now called “Liked,” tweets. Continue reading How to Use Pinboard to Search Your Twitter Likes

Delicious, the Social Bookmarking Service, is Bought and Shut Down

Colorful bookmarks commemorating, Martin Luther King, Jr Day, National Geographic, and Reading Rainbow strewn across a wooden table.

After being neglected by its owners for more than a year, Pinboard bought Delicious and will shutter the site. On June 15, 2017, the Delicious site will change to read-only.

Delicious users won’t be able to save any new bookmarks, but will be able to export their bookmarks.

Read on for more background about my experience with Delicious in 2016, their lack of communication, and what I believe they could have done to maintain the loyalty of their users.

In early February 2016, I couldn’t log in to Delicious, the online social bookmarking site. I figured it was my Internet connection, and I would check later in the day.

I have thousands of bookmarks on Delicious, accumulated since the mid 2000’s, on web design, accessibility, user experience. All kinds of bookmarks to sites, tips, and blogs, that I use weekly. And I regularly add to the bookmarks.

So, when I checked Delicious later in the day and I still couldn’t log in, I began to get concerned. Continue reading Delicious, the Social Bookmarking Service, is Bought and Shut Down