According to an article on The Next Web, Yahoo might be looking at closing down or possibly transform the social bookmarking service Delicious into some other Yahoo branded product. If you are like me, and have half your online memory archived on Delicious (I have more than 3,000 bookmarks), the thought of losing all those links is not all that attractive. But fear not, it is easy to do a backup and also to import the data into other services.
Backup your Delicious bookmarks
To backup your bookmarks, first log in to your account at Delicious.com. Then go Settings and then Export/Backup Bookmarks. There you can save all your bookmarks as an html file and by clicking the boxes for “include my tags” and “include my notes” you also will save that data. Press “Export” and save the html file to your computer.
Import to Diigo
If you don’t have an account, first join Diigo for free by selecting a username and password. Then (after activating your account via email confirmation) you got to Tools and Import Bookmarks. There, press the icon for Delicious and on the next page you will have two options. Either you select the html file on your computer, that you just saved from Delicious, or you import via API by filling in your Delicious username and password. (I actually did both by mistake, but luckily it didn’t import twice.)
If you have many bookmarks, the import to Diigo will take several hours, but it worked really well. The only thing that I have noticed so far that didn’t work, is that the bookmarks marked “private” in Delicious are not private in Diigo after the import and you will have to change that manually, which of course most people won’t do.
Also, the old tags are imported, but you can’t filter via old tags in the Library, unless you search for it. However, if you add a new item to Diigo with a new tag, it automatically finds your old stuff from Delicious with the same tag.
There are other ways to import your old Delicious bookmarks to other services or browsers, but with Diigo at least now you have a backup plan in case Delicious will disappear.
Posted in Other.
Tagged with backup, bookmarks, Delicious, Diigo, export, import.
By kullin
– December 17, 2010
Cision has published a ranking of the top 10 PR and Communications blogs in Sweden and I’m proud to announce that I have two blogs on the list. This blog, Media Culpa, is ranked at #3 and my Swedish language blog Sociala Medier is ranked #10.
Congratulations to Johan Ronnestam who claimed the top spot, and to all the others on the list. Well deserved, all of you.
1. ronnestam.com
2. joinsimon
3. Media Culpa
4. SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT
5. jardenberg unedited
6. FYRA NYANSER AV BRUNT
7. Doktor Spinn
8. bisonblog.se
9. Pers Värld
10. SOCIALA MEDIER
Similar lists from Cision include top PR blogs in Finland, Norway and the UK.
Posted in Blogging, PR.
Tagged with cision, PR, PR blogs.
By kullin
– December 6, 2010
Oh, the irony. Swedish tea brand Kobbs launched a competition in which consumers were challenged to stay off of Facebook for a week. To take part in the competition, users had to connect via their Facebook profile. The competition was supposed to last for a month, but was closed down today, after being live only for a few days.
There is no publicly available information explaining why Facebook shut down the contest. My guess is that there could be several reasons that the contest was in breach of Facebook Promotions Guidelines, but the use of the brand Facebook in the contest headline is a prime suspect.
For some tips on how to run a successful contest on Facebook, check out these tips.
Posted in Business.
Tagged with Facebook, guidelines, Kobbs, promotions.
By kullin
– November 29, 2010
The British newspaper industry is fighting tooth and nail to stop commercial services from aggregating links to newspaper content for free. In January 2010, The National Licensing Agency (NLA), which is owned by eight newspaper publishers in the UK, started charging sites that link to newspaper’s online articles as part of their paid-for services.
Today the High Court in the UK ruled in favour of the National Licensing Agency in the case against Meltwater. The Court concluded that aggregated web links taken from newspaper websites are protected by copyright law.
Separate Copyright Tribunal proceedings on the matter are expected to take place in February 2011.
Full story on the Press Gazette.
Posted in Media & Journalism.
Tagged with Meltwater, NLA, UK.
By kullin
– November 26, 2010
The Swedish band jj are the second most blogged artists this week, according to The Hype Machine, which tracks artists on more than 1,000 music blogs. Sweden’s Robyn is moving up two spots to #4.
Most blogged artists on November 21 at 10 am GMT:
- Girl Talk (no change)
- jj (no change)
- Bikini (+3)
- Robyn (+2)
- Gorillaz (re-entry)
- Chromeo (re-entry)
- Patrick Wolf (new)
- The Morning Benders (re-entry)
- Jay Electronica (new)
- Jay-Z (new)
Listen to jj’s new single Let Them on The Hype Machine.
Source: The Independent.
Posted in Blogging, Statistics.
Tagged with blogs, jj, music, Robyn, Sweden.
By kullin
– November 22, 2010
According to statistics from ComScore, 71.5% of the Swedish online population visited online retailers in October 2010. That ranks Sweden number 8 among the top 10 countries in Europe. UK is the clear leader with 89.3% of the online population.
Posted in Statistics.
Tagged with ComScore, retail, Sweden, UK.
By kullin
– November 22, 2010
MyCube Vault is a new tool for backing up your content on different social media sites,or as the company puts it in the press release, “the first of a suite of services that will give users complete control of their online lives”. It is the brain child of internet entrepreneur Johan Staël von Holstein, who presented the Vault this morning at a meeting in Stockholm. The tool allows users to take ownership and control of content they have shared on social networks such as Facebook. The reasoning behind the need for this procedure is that MyCube predicts an increasing need for users to be in charge of their content, in terms of privacy, security and control. Who really owns your data on social networks will be a critical issue in the future, MyCube assumes.
In January next year, MyCube will also launch a beta of MyCube Exchange, a social network that will let users create and share content, not only on MyCube, but also on other sites. In other words, the plan seems to be to allow users to download all of their content with MyCube Vault, upload it to MyCube Exchange and then share it to all the places they choose. This will give users more control and in the long run an option to actually leave sites like Facebook and take all that content to some other place.
The Vault is an open source project and free of charge for users who use the tool to download their content to their own computer.
So far, the only service you can back up is Facebook, which of course you can already do directly inside Facebook. Hopefully more services will be added shortly. This is how you back up your Facebook content, using MyCube Vault.
How to backup content on Facebook using MyCube Vault
Give the application access to your Facebook account. Then backup your friends, albums, statuses, events, links and/or notes. You can also let MyCube Vault do a backup on a daily or weekly basis.
The Vault then downloads your content, for example the names of all your friends and a link to their profiles (I have erased their last names and full links in the image below).
Status updates are downloaded, including comments.
A question that MyCube will probably face is the definition of who actually owns content. For example, I downloaded “my” content on Facebook but not only did the Vault download all my photos, it also downloaded all photos I am tagged in, which of course includes photos that aren’t mine.
Posted in Other.
Tagged with back up, Facebook, Johan Staël von Holstein, MyCube.
By kullin
– November 18, 2010
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