It’s a sad day for the many people who have come to rely on del.icio.us, a very popular social bookmarking site. A Web giant Yahoo now going to close their web properties Delicious, Yahoo Buzz and AltaVista.com. Yahoo, which bought the site in 2005, is now in the midst of shutting it down after deeming it “off-strategy product.” This news comes to us via TechCrunch who verified the story with a WSJ reporter as well as with Yahoo itself, mere days after announcing it had layed off 4% of its staff in a recent downsizing exercise. Some people will remember delicious as one of the sites that kicked web 2.0 into high gear back when it launched in 2003.
"Part of our organizational streamlining involves cutting our investment in underperforming or off-strategy products to put better focus on our core strengths and fund new innovation in the next year and beyond," a Yahoo spokeswoman said via e-mail. "We continuously evaluate and prioritize our portfolio of products and services, and do plan to shut down some products in the coming months such as Yahoo Buzz, our Traffic APIs, and others. We will communicate specific plans when appropriate."
Source: Yahoo closing delicious
So Delicious users are requested to Export their current bookmarks. Use https://secure.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export link to export your bookmarks.
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