okay, i could live without the pony

[seperis]

Via email from Yahoo:

Dear Delicious User,
Yahoo! is excited to announce that Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. As creators of the largest online video platform, Hurley and Chen have firsthand expertise enabling millions of consumers to share their experiences with the world. Delicious will become part of their new Internet company, AVOS.

To continue using Delicious, you must agree to let Yahoo! transfer your bookmarks to AVOS. After a transition period and after your bookmarks are transferred, you will be subject to the AVOS terms of service and privacy policy.



Reasons to let Yahoo! transfer your bookmarks
• Continue uninterrupted use of Delicious.
• Keep your Delicious account and all your bookmarks.
• Enjoy the same look and feel of Delicious today plus future product innovations.

What happens if you do not transfer your bookmarks
• Delicious in its current form will be available until approximately July 2011.
• After that, you will no longer be able to use your existing Delicious account and will not have
access to your existing bookmarks or account information.

About AVOS
AVOS is a new Internet company founded by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen who, in 2005, founded YouTube, the world's largest online video platform. Before YouTube, Hurley and Chen were early employees at PayPal, a leading online payment service that is now part of eBay. Delicious will become a part of AVOS, based in San Mateo, California.


Learn more about moving your bookmarks.
Thank you for using Delicious. Yahoo! has appreciated having you with us, and we are pleased to be able to transfer Delicious to an incredible new owner -- you're in good hands.
The Yahoo! Delicious Team

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...right.

Sure, this may be premature, or maybe the person who wrote this is incompetent with public relations (by that I mean, I started reading this thrilled to know we wouldn't lose delicious entirely and came out of it rather hostile), but we build our own archives and websites; maybe we should consider building our own place for bookmarks.

Also, I want a pony. Either/or.

Moving On

In other news, the first trailer for X-Men First Class did not inspire me. Oh, I was going to watch it, because hello, Eric and Xavier and also, McAvoy is hot like burning, but more like the same way you read [insert classic novel here] or watch [insert pop-culture required media here]; for the former, so I could say I did it and survive it; for the latter, because I'm media fen and it's like a compulsion.

But now I'm committed. And now it is not the fannish equivalent of a historical documentary on current canon; now it's going to hurt, and fine, I knew about Xavier and Erik, that I was ready for, whatever, but I wasn't ready for Mystique and Beast.

Comments

Sigh

[thejeopardymaze]

I'll transfer my accounts, but eventually delete them afterwards, I'm rather fond of Diigo and will probably use it permanently after I transfer all the bookmarks to Diigo that I still find useful-despite my irritation with how they implemented the bookmarklet function.


...maybe we should consider building our own place for bookmarks.

I plan on using either pbworks or wikidot for a personal project of mine that will contain tons of links (but not all the links out there I'm using Diigo for), but your mileage may vary.

[hermitsoul]

This part of the TOS worries me:

You agree not to do any of the following:

1. Post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any Content that: (i) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party’s patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (iii) is fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive; (iv) is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive; (v) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (vi) is violent or threatening or promotes violence or actions that are threatening to any other person; or (vii) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances.

Vulgar? Seriously? And who decides what's infringing or pornographic?

[apatheia_jane]

What other tone would you expect from a company that has an exclamation mark as part of its name? Actually, I felt the letter was pretty concise and useful, compared to some of the issues and resulting communications I've had with Yahoo! owned Delicious.

[neotoma]

My objection is that in the AVOS version of Delicious, other members will be able to see your screen name *and* real name. There is no mention of an option to keep yourself pseudonymous, which is why I've not yet signed on.

[out_there]

In other news, the first trailer for X-Men First Class did not inspire me. Oh, I was going to watch it, because hello, Eric and Xavier and also, McAvoy is hot like burning

Hmmmm. That's making me frown a little. Because, well, Eric and Xavier + McAvoy should = most awesome and slashy film. I think I need to watch that preview this weekend and come up with my own opinion.

[amalthia]

I'm a bit curious as to when you first noticed McAvoy??? He's also one of those actors I love to watch on screen but I discovered him in Children of Dune.

[angels3.livejournal.com]

Huh, cause I thought it was pretty great. I've already set both mine up to move over, I've just got to figure out if it will take what I bookmark between now and when it moves.

It seemed very informative for the site not to be up and running yet and easy to use as far as getting yourself in line to get your stuff moved and saved.

[nianeyna.livejournal.com]

If there was a bookmarking service that is to delicious what dreamwidth is to lj, I would be all over that. But I think I'd probably stick with delicious as well, just like I'm on both lj and dreamwidth. Just because, you know, not everyone would move to the new digs.

THAT SAID, for now I am just crying epic whoretears of relieved joy over the fact that delicious is not shutting down and/or being bought by stumbleupon, which I had heard floated as a possibility and like, stumbleupon, I like you and all, but my delicious bookmarks are MILITANTLY ORGANIZED and I do not see you being very conducive to that.

[sian1359.livejournal.com]

What bothered me about the email is you're basically agreeing to a future TOS that isn't detailed -- at least in the email at all. And considering South Park's episode tonight ...

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

I was already going to see First Class, but that trailer nailed it.

I've got a weird relationship with the movies. From 1994-2000 I was a HARDCORE X-Men fan. Owned the comics, was all over usenet, and very very into it.

But I went cold turkey in 2000, before the first movie. So for me the movies are a lovely AU- and far better than they had any right to be.

But that first group. OH. MYSTIQUE! MYSTIQUE. My only regret is that they probably won't have Destiny in it. Not a huge deal as in movieverse, Rogue doesn't have two mommies. But still.

ETA: Icon picked not for sentiment, but because it's my only icon of the main team.

[tricksterquinn.livejournal.com]

X-MEN FIRST CLASS!!!!!!! OH FANDOM OF MY HEART, PLEASE BE ALL I COULD HOPE!!!!!!!!!!!

[pressdbtwnpages.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, First Class does look good. But, and I know it's Marvel and Fox and all of that, but, ugh, the lack of logic!continuity makes me unhappy.

[al-hazel.livejournal.com]

I think what bugged me about that email was that you had to choose between allowing the transfer and losing your bookmarks. Like it was their way or no way.

I do think it is because of bad PR though, and hopefully it'll improve.

[beyondallreason.livejournal.com]

Agree and agree on the reaction to the xmen trailers.... I can't wait (now)

[mir8lle.livejournal.com]

Emma Frost! Yay!

[eccentrikita.livejournal.com]

http://avos.com/terms/

So I'm pretty sure that the User Responsibilities section at the bottom there frowns upon both transformative works and porn. Did the original delicious TOS have those overtones?

Fanmirror time, indeed.

[cyprinella]

FLAPPY HANDS OF GLEE AT THAT TRAILER!

Oh please, please don't suck.

[faithharkness.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about Havoc until I saw the trailer.

There is no squee big enough