all (web 2.0) things mustn’t pass

just some thoughts about delicious' change of ownership...there was some doubt for a while about whether or not yahoo would find a buyer.  yahoo had gone through this before with geocities, a web hosting service - it went out of fashion, became unprofitable for them to maintain so they closed it down and lots of people lost a lot of content...I think the bad press they received about that episode probably made them less inclined to do the same thing with delicious, and in the end it found a home and all worked out fine…yay…but it could have been bad...boo...

for the most part i really like web-based tools but they do have implications for content storage and preservation...the sites or companies hosting it may not do it forever...a lot of the time maybe storage isn't a priority but other times it might be...last month library of congress committed to preserving twitter’s entire archive...it seems like a good model for getting around some of those problems...i oh i don't know...leave me alone...

by the way, is anyone else's blogger still playing up on them a bit?  maybe it's just out to get me...