What are the Delicious alternatives again?

[neotoma]

Because this does not make me happy:

Registered Users. When you register through the Site and submit your Personal Information to create a profile webpage, Delicious Users will see your “Screen Name” and first and last name (“Required Member Identifiers”). You can choose what other Personal Information you provide as part of your profile (“Other Member Information”) and in some cases you can choose whether to share that information publicly on the Site by making selections via the “Settings” section of your profile webpage. Providing Other Member Information is voluntary and should correlate with the degree of interaction you want to have with Delicious Users. We recommend that you guard your anonymity and sensitive information.

-- from the AVOS Privacy Policy, under Information Sharing and Disclosure

Do I want people to see my real name linked to my fannish bookmark collection? No. Does the new Delicious TOS imply that they will? Yes...


:P

Comments

[fyrdrakken]

and in some cases you can choose whether to share that information publicly on the Site by making selections via the “Settings” section of your profile webpage.

I hit the "Settings" section and the options included name, e-mail, and website address, each of which you could fill in yourself. There was also an option not to have any public profile at all.

[neotoma]

You did? On the AVOS site, or on the current Delicious site, because I don't think AVOS has taken control of Delicious just yet?

[fyrdrakken]

AVOS has taken enough control that certain AVOS-specific items are showing up on the Settings page -- and, even more noticeably, in that I can log in the regular way again instead of having to route through an extra couple of steps to use my Yahoo! log-in, as happened after I made the mistake of linking my Delicious account to my Yahoo! account.

OTOH, I went to have another look at the Settings page last night to see if I could tell, and the changes I had made to my public profile had vanished and it was back to the default of displaying my given name. I thought maybe I hadn't clicked the save option after changing it the first time and did so again -- but when I had a look just now, it had again defaulted to showing my first name. I tried unclicking the option to have any information displayed at all -- I'll have to see if it's still there next time I log in.