del.icio.us keels over

Technology — By on December 19, 2005 7:34 am

Social bookmarking site, del.icio.us, has been down since at least 10.00pm PT Sunday night. Recently acquired by Yahoo!, the service suffered a power outage late last week, which according to the del.icio.us blog, has affected the database indexes which need to be rebuilt.

Not a great week for Web 2.0 companies following Typepad’s outage on Friday. But judging by the 226 comments on its blog, del.icio.us has a faithful and loyal following.

Sidenote – some users are threatening to swap to digg, which isn’t a social bookmarking service, but a news ranking engine where visitors vote (or digg) for the content they like. They’re not really competitive – I use both.

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  • http://mindvalley.blogspot.com Mike

    If you are considering to swap or try another service, check out http://www.blinklist.com. Perhaps you might find it to be a delicious alternative. We are working hard at improving our service so if you do check us out, I would love to hear your thoughts. Mike

  • http://www.morganmclintic.com Morgan McLintic

    Hi Mike – thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check it out more fully but from an initial glance it looks a bit like del.icio.us meets digg?

  • http://mindvalley.blogspot.com Mike

    Hi Morgan, there is actually LOTs of important reasons why you might enjoy BlinkList over del.icio.us. They become very obvious once you start using the system. If you would like to see a list, you can also just go here:
    http://www.blinklist.com/about/category/general/blinklist-vs-delicious/
    Look forward to hear your thoughts once you have had a chance to play around with our site for a bit more.
    Mike

  • http://helzerman.com/wp/?p=344 Helzerman’s Odd Bits

    del.icio.us down and out

    Morgan McLintic is writing about del.icio.us which apparently has been down since Sunday. I have to confess that I never really got the point of this site or its value. Apparently, Im in the minority however since it was aquired by Yahoo!
    …