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Aw yeah! I used to use this site all the time, I had quite a lot of bookmarks in here. I think I have an export floating around somewhere but it will be great to see the site up again.

I always found the folksonomy model for aggregating and finding content very interesting, unfortunately it seems to have fallen out of fashion as sites like del.icio.us disappeared.

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I still use pinboard.in Just a single guy programming it, and asking a small fee. No ads. No extra stupid features. The web like it should be IMHO.

Maciej, the person who posted this update to del.icio.us, is the owner and maintainer of pinboard.

I wonder how that's going to work, whether he's going to keep both as-is in parallel or what the plans are.

I believe he's said he will run Del.icio.us read-only.

I wouldn't say that the model itself has disappeared, folksonomy is still the foundation for hashtags after all. It's just that few people are working on crowdsourced bookmark directories ala del.icio.us these days. Hopefully we'll end up with a federated standard for web directories, where users and trusted organizations can "endorse" their bookmark collections and put their reliable identity behind those endorsements.

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