Earthling

Note: The below is an archived entry from Earthling, formerly EarthLink's official blog. The blog itself has been decommissioned and is no longer updated, and comments are trackbacks are no longer accepted.

I had seen earlier builds, but I hadn't seen how myFavorites handles importing your data from del.icio.us prior to Friday. Seeing it in action really pleased me, in terms of both the user interface and the way it talks to you. The language is plain and direct and friendly, and the information is organized in a way that's easy to understand at a glance. Here's a peek at it, cropped and resized. Click it to see an un-resized version:

If you're a del.icio.us user now, it's not explicitly called out yet but you can bring your tags and URL's with you. We don't yet bring in the dates, but that's apparently something we could do. To bring your favorites in to myFavorites (heh, not *my* favorites, but myFavorites):

1. in del.icio.us go to settings>>export and hit "export to HTML". That will spit out a file or a screen of data. If it does the latter, save it as source and remember what you called it.
   
2. Now log in to myFavorites, and go to settings>>import bookmarks. Decide if you'd like them all to come in as public or private, and click next.
   
3. On the next screen, use the "browse" button to find the file you created in step 1 on your computer. If it’s a bad file or the wrong file, you’ll notice an error message and you’ll stay on that same page. (update:) Click "next" after you've selected the right file on your computer.
   
4. You’re done. The interface above appears, and tells you everything that just happened.

There's more stuff like this at the myFavorites product blog.