Yahoo to close the Delicious bookmarking service

Those who have been on the Internet long enough to remember the heyday of social bookmarking will understand this news to be a sign of the times for Yahoo, an aging portal seemingly in search of new direction. The still popular Delicious.com service -- which at the time of this writing shows an Alexa ranking of 255 -- was one of the first wave of high-profile acquisitions during the "Web 2.0" era, along with photo-sharing service Flickr, another Yahoo property.

The promise of social bookmarking was both to provide central, cloud-based storage for your web bookmarks as well as open up your bookmarks to social interaction and discovery. The shuttering of both Delicious and Yahoo's oddly competitive Yahoo! Bookmarks properties seemingly heralds the end of the company's experiments in this sector, and it will be interesting to see whether another player emerges to innovate the next era of social bookmarking.

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