Instead of creating a shopping list for this season, Yahoo! has created a “chopping” list to shutdown many of its services. There was quite of a buzz around it and finally, they have declared that they are going to shutdown their social bookmarking service Del.iciou.us.
The story does not end their. Yahoo! has decided to chop down many other great service like Altavista, MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Picks which were announced in a presentation posted on twitter. Unfortunately, now the image has been removed from ImageShack. Nevertheless, here’s the image which was posted in TechCrunch.
It’s clearly visible that Delicious is listed under “Sunset” which are going to be shutdown soon. Yahoo! reveals that it’s stated in the part of their organizational streamline to cut off the investment to underperformed or off-strategy services. Well, as far as I know Delicious was a popular social bookmarking site since 2003 which really made a mark of its kind.
This must be really embarrassing for regular Delicious users and it’s sad to see such a great service is going down!
The rumor was quite an issue which aroused many readers’ curiosity and embarrassment due to the fact Delicious was going to shut down. But Yahoo! officially declares that eventhough they fired the Delicious team Delicious will see the light of the world, outside Yahoo! nonetheless. You can read more on their official statement. Very well, Delicious will have to regain its trust it had in its users again.
Source: techhamlet.com
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