Automatically Backup and Host Your Delicious Bookmarks

If you believe in open data, I urge you to email support@favbot.com, and ask that the delicious data is made available outside of favbot. That way, it isn't just put in another walled garden.

[Disclosure: I want to hack more code that uses social tagging data.]

Here was my email:

Dear FavBot,

Could you update your delicious importer, and please add an option to allow users to publicly share their delicious links?

There are a bunch of researchers who would like to use social tagging data. Getting a clean data set, from consenting users, would be awesome. So if you could help this process, since you have built the data collector, that would be great. It would also be a good way to promote your site.

If you can collect the data, I can get you hosting for the bulk dump.

Best, Joseph

The submission title should clearly state that this is an importer for a different service, not an independent delicio.us backup tool as it currently claims. There are several easier ways to backup delicio.us that don't require handling the password to an external site.

If you want to promote a product that's perfectly fine, but at least do this openly.

backup is not a verb