Delicious To Shut Down: Export Bookmarks, Find Alternative Sites

Delicious is dead. How Can You Save Your Delicious Bookmarks and What Other Social Bookmarking Site Are There?

The social bookmarking site Del.icio.us is set to be shut down by Yahoo. Rumors have swirled that the recent round of Yahoo layoffs included all Delicious staffers and it now appears that the site is going the way of Geocities. 

According to TechCrunch, it seems that the handwriting had the been on the wall for a while. Other products affected by the Yahoo layoffs include Yahoo Buzz, MyBlogLog, Delicious, AllTheWeb.com, Yahoo Picks, and AltaVista.

The death of Delicious of particularly noteworthy as the site was considered a pioneer in social media. 

How to Save Your Delicious bookmarks

If you're looking to save all your Delicious bookmarks, there appears to be a relatively easy way to export them. Here is a link to export your Delicious bookmarks complete with tags and notes. 

Are there any Delicious alternatives?

If you're looking for a new bookmark management site to replace Del.iciou.us, there are options. Among the most popular is Diigo, which offers many of the same features as Delicious.

Lifehacker also provides some other Delicious alternatives.