Sunday, February 10, 2008

Migrate from Del.icio.us to Ma.gnolia

With one of two possibilities being the most likely outcomes of Yahoo, a. they become part of Microsoft, or b. they struggle around a while on their own and then become part of Microsoft, I knew I needed to migrate away from my Yahoo services. While as I mentioned in an earlier post, I basically new where I was moving my Flickr to Picasa and eventually my mail to Gmail. But I had no idea at the time what to do with my Del.icio.us bookmarks until now. I had read about other options, but most all seemed more to me like Digg or Reddit and while many use del.icio.us this way, I use it purely as a way to share bookmarks of useful sites and keep track of sites that I use on occasion but don't need in my local bookmarks. Now I don't know how I stumbled upon this (and no, no reference to StumbleUpon, I tried it and didn't like it), but I came across this post. Here is a helpful hint on how to ditch del.icio.us and move to Ma.gnolia in advance of a possible Microsoft take over of Yahoo....

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