Time to Say Goodbye to Yahoo! MyWeb
- Posted February 13th, 2009 at 9:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: News/Announcements
Back in 2005, we launched Yahoo! MyWeb with the goal to help our users save valuable information they discover on the Web. As we have continued to innovate with the 2.0 release of Delicious and the upgraded Yahoo! Bookmarks, we saw that MyWeb users’ needs are being served by our newer products. To streamline our bookmarking services, we will discontinue the MyWeb service starting March 18, 2009 and focus our efforts on improving Delicious for social bookmarking. We are working on many Delicious product enhancements for 2009 – in the meantime, we’ll make the transition for our MyWeb users in the least disruptive manner possible. MyWeb users have three choices to migrate their bookmarks:
1. Yahoo! Bookmarks. For users primarily interested in private bookmarking, the switch is simple – all MyWeb bookmarks are already available in Yahoo! Bookmarks.
2. Delicious . For users who enjoy sharing their bookmarks and exploring the bookmarks of other users, we recommend migrating to Delicious. The migration is a three-step process – see details here.
3. Export. For users who choose to use other bookmarking services, we recommend using our export tools, which will provide an archive of your bookmarks that is easily readable by 3rd party services and browsers such as Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
For publishers using the MyWeb Bookmark button or the MyWeb badge, we recommend migrating these to the Delicious button or badge.
If you have any questions about the migration, please contact us at the MyWeb Feedback page.
Ariel Seidman and Craig Taylor
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It’s a pity! I really liked myweb, more than delicious.
I really liked myweb, more than delicious!!
oh god..
Yes it’s sad somehow although I generally like Delicious more because there is more of a community (more people using it).
However, could you please implement the archiving feature (aka “My saved copy”) in Delicious! And maybe also a screenshot for all bookmaks (not just the ones on the front page). Then Delicious would be perfect.
I’ve been a user of Delicious, that’s why I believe this is a good decision. Delicious is still in beta and stops daily blog posting sometimes, so please concentrate on fixing issues and make Delicious out of beta, I hope …
Excellent news. I hope this doesn’t mean (too many) people will be out of a job – but My Web / Bookmarks / Delicious is just one of the many services Yahoo! owns that overlap in function. It just makes sense to merge / get rid of one! Ideally Yahoo! would take further steps to take the best developers from the Bookmarks team and move them over the Delicious team, get rid of the Bookmarks service and develop Delicious as a Yahoo! Front Page brand like Flickr.
Next stop is to take the MyBlogLog team / site and merge them with Yahoo! Profiles, scrapping the MBL brand, because it’s not strong enough? Or possibly splitting the team and having some people work together with the Yahoo! APT / Web Analytics (http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/) team to create a publicly available websites stats and advertising facility akin to Google Adsense / Analytics.
Although I have moved to delicious now, I find this is a bit of a sad day. My first project when I worked at Yahoo! was working on launching My Web in Europe. Having the ‘web page xerox’ function in delicious would be the best of both worlds.
Bon voyage My Web!
One thing sure when it comes to the Internet is change…those who don’t will be left behind.
Its very disappointment to see yahoo my web being closed ..
well this is sad news…i know many guys hurt from it..i am sure yahoo will come again with new concept..:)
I believe this is a good decision.
Why Yahoo cannot last anything? If you invest in delicious, why you did also invest on Myweb?
Why did yahoo ended Yahoo Photos service when they also invested in Flickr.
It is a huge vaste of resources. That is why I don’t like Yahoo anymore… Yahoo always starts some services, you start using them, then Yahoo stops and offer you another service… I don’t like it…
The the above ranting commenters’ – trimming the fat is just necessary at times, particularly these times.
Ian (not a Yahoo! employee)
I know whatever the decision all of from the Yahoo Management, I believe it will come the new concept and better than delicious…and yummy..
It is good service.
1 month ago,i have use the http://delicious.com/,so i have a user ofdelicious,my delicious Bookmarks url is http://delicious.com/dashshopping/,about chinese electronics,welcome to visit it
Delicious is still in beta and stops daily blog posting sometimes, so please concentrate on fixing issues and make Delicious out of beta, I hope …
I really liked myweb, it’s sad to see it go. I was never drawn to delicious but I will give it a try
MyWeb users are NOT supported in delcious.com. There is no page caching feature which in some use cases makes Delicious useless as a bookmarking archive. PLEASE get that feature added before you force everyone there.
Delicious kicks ass :)
i know many guys hurt from it..i am sure yahoo will come again with new concept
I really liked myweb, it’s sad to see it go. I was never drawn to delicious but I will give it a test for all my activities