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murklins in deliciouslymad

Delicious & AVOS: Points of discussion

Apr 28, 2011 11:26

I don't have a lot of time, but I wanted to highlight a few things I've seen people saying in the comments of my last post and around fandom in general. (Note: I did not exactly cast the net very wide, this is not a comprehensive list or anything, it's just stuff I saw on my flist & rlist.)

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vickyblueeyez April 28 2011, 22:34:46 UTC

Back when people thought Delicious was first going to be shut down, some moved to Diigo.com. I made a post highlighting some items from their TOS here http://vickyblueeyez.livejournal.com/85801.html

murklins April 28 2011, 22:57:31 UTC

Thanks for the link!

grrgoyl April 28 2011, 23:08:30 UTC

Glad you posted this. I was all worried about what the new Delicious would do about all my slash fic links, but I've had them on Diigo since December and no one has made a fuss, so....

flyingcarpet April 29 2011, 15:00:51 UTC

This is really helpful, thanks.

murklins April 29 2011, 17:04:56 UTC

No problem, glad it was useful to you!

turlough April 29 2011, 17:19:35 UTC

To me the AVOS TOS looks like it was designed for a completely different sort of website. It doesn't seem applicable to a bookmarking site at all. I mean, links in themselves can hardly be considered vulgar or offensive.

murklins April 29 2011, 18:12:53 UTC

Yeah, that seems quite possible, that it could be some boilerplate TOS, or something they cribbed from their YouTube days, or, most interestingly (worryingly?), something designed for where they see the site heading. Yahoo claims to have had "numerous parties interested in acquiring the site" and they say they chose AVOS because of their "unique vision for Delicious". So maybe their vision requires a TOS like that? Maybe we'll bee more content actually getting stored on Delicious itself?

murklins April 29 2011, 18:13:53 UTC

*bee = see

turlough April 29 2011, 19:38:05 UTC

Yeah, I'm more worried about what future plans the new owners have for the site than I am about them starting to censor our bookmarks.

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kaizoku April 30 2011, 02:47:03 UTC

Just saw this article by Violet Blue Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer (linked on delicious, natch.)

murklins April 30 2011, 03:05:04 UTC

Oh, it's good to see a news source calling AVOS out on their silence regarding the new TOS and privacy policy. I would really like some answers from them.