"It’s been a San Francisco icon for more than a decade. It’s graced our skyline through the dot.com boom and bust. And it’s one of the most recognizable pieces of advertising the city has seen in a long time. But the San Francisco Egotist has learned that in two weeks, the Yahoo! billboard will be no longer."

"The Delicious API makes it quite easy to post links so I’ve added that into my own bookmarking code. Whenever I post a link here, it will also show up on my Delicious account. If you’re subscribed to my Delicious links, you should notice no change whatsoever." When both Les Orchard and Jeremy Keith are saying something similar, I listen.

"TL;DR: Don’t depend on Delicious; host your own, pay for it elsewhere, or hope for the best. Use real-time feeds to stitch the bookmarking diaspora back together into topical aggregate indexes." When both Les Orchard and Jeremy Keith are saying something similar, I listen.

"Delicious may or may not have a future as a service, but regardless we can still 'save it' by extracting and preserving its collective memories." A call to export the public delicious data corpus to the Library of Congress, or similar.

Charlie O'Donnell on the Delicious fallout: "[It's] unfortunate because it really hurts Yahoo!’s ability to make purchases in the future.  To shut off such an important asset in the history of Web 2.0 really means they’ll pull the plug on anything.  I certainly wouldn’t want anything I built winding up there (unless they were the only bidder on the face of the earth), given how well they’ve proven to be able to take care of things.  And they wonder why they couldn’t get deals done for Facebook, Groupon or Foursquare."

YQL really does make the concept of an "API join" far more obvious. Personally I think I still prefer manipulating JSON results, but then I'm not really one for English-like query languages in the first place.

A writeup of Yahoo's YQL, with special attention paid to the fact it outputs in JSON (yay JSON!). It certainly does a good job of making what I've been calling "API joins" for a while explicit, both in terms of the fact they're like database joins, and also the fact that they're really slow.

"The YQL platform provides a single endpoint service that enables developers to query, filter and combine data across Yahoo! and beyond. YQL exposes a SQL-like SELECT syntax that that is both familiar to developers and expressive enough for getting the right data." A fairly interesting experiment, if nothing else.

"It does look kind of like a little armoured dog after all." "You may have to obtain a special permit."

I think I'm going to move to using all the tags he mentions here, as well as offering to put in "proper" location data (with the flickr.geo methods). Also- nice hack, and a really good prod for me.

"here’s a whacky idea my Yahoo friends. Why not define yourself by your news services and the other stuff where you destroy the competition?" He's not the first person to say this, but concentrating on news not the Flickr/delicious axis is new.

I know Joshua isn't del.icio.us, so I hold out hope that the site will potter along fine, but for all that I'd hoped Yahoo would be a good home for the small companies it took over, that doesn't seem to be true.

Speaking of Yahoo, it's hard to see how they're going to be able to refuse a 62% premium, even if the cash part of the offer doesn't quite cover the current valuation.

"Yahoo has reached a deal to start running advertisements in Adobe's popular PDF document-reading format." "The advertisements will not appear if the PDF document is printed." Raises more questions than it answers. Will Preview show the ads?

Nice, but I still want HTML blog front ends to have a category: "everything minus the delicious cruft". (I do this, but in two chunks of "everything", because I am a bit wonky.)

A(nother (see Zonetags)) Yahoo! Research project. Looks obvious in hindsight. Wonder if I'll ever get around to buying a phone that's shiny enough?

Rather longwinded, but admittedly accessible, intro to contextually aware photo uploading. I like the tinyurl hack (don't non-US Yahoo! people get fed up defending their "not-US don't-count" attitude?) but thought it was worth noting the alternatives.

Also compares to Feedburner, Google