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Can social bookmarking services prevent a bookmark from becoming dead links?

27th January 2006

My answer to Can social bookmarking services prevent a bookmark from becoming dead links? on Ask MetaFilter

Yahoo!’s MyWeb 2.0 can do that. (Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo!, but not directly on that product).

Posted 27th January 2006 at 9:50 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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