News regarding delicious.com

[wistfuljane]

There's some bad news for newsletters who used delicious.com automated script for generating newsletter issues [eta: or just used delicious.com for general organization/archiving purposes]:

I don't know how many of you still read this comm, but I'll post anyway! On Tuesday Yahoo laid off the entire Delicious team and today it announced at a company all-hands meeting that it will be "sunsetting" Delicious [eta: smaller version of the screencap], aka shutting it down, although there are no details yet on when or how, from any of my sources inside Yahoo. It could be months or years - although they'll almost certainly announce it ahead of time (at some point), like Geocities.

- Goddamnit, dreamyshade aka Britta from delicious.com

And from TechCrunch: Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes].

Although the closing of delicious.com may be a long time off, I think there's currently limited alternatives to delicious.com in terms of being able to generate links into a customized format. I don't know, what are your thoughts on the feasibility of Diigo, AO3's bookmarks feature and other alternatives? bluemeridian has a related discussion on this here [eta: there's also a links roundup there].

Addendum: renay discussed here about the would-be impact of delicious.com closing on ff_press, the Final Fantasy newsletter, and possible alternatives to delicious.com.

Other links:

• AlternativesDelicious (big collaborative Google Docs, geared toward educators/education usages)
• merlinkinkmeme: Delicious discussion forum (discussion of delicious.com alternatives)
• hermitsoul: some whining and some contemplating (list of pros & cons for delicious.com alternatives)
• cupidsbow: diigo vs delicious, and how to set up diigo