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11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks

by Jordan Running on March 15, 2006 at 09:30 AM

Backup del.icio.usWe've talked about data lock-in before, that sorry state when a web service won't give you your data in a useful, standard format. del.icio.us, I am happy to observe, is no such web service, and by way of proof I direct you to 11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks. In addition to the obvious—export HTML or XML—you can backup to Gmail or straight to a MySQL database, safe them to an Excel spreadsheet, automatically sync them with a whole pile of other bookmarking services, and more.

Tags: backup, bookmarks, del.icio.us, delicious, export, lock-in, lockin

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