★ Yahoo! Bookmarks to shut down in 2010
Well yeh that’s a prevision I’m making and to be fair it’s not a very difficult one. Everybody seems to be angry at Yahoo! shutting down MyBlogLog but well, I’m not so sure why. The widget was horrible and hideous. The service certainly was more flexible than Yahoo Profile but Yahoo! could clearly not continue using both. At least they took off the peanut butter quite quickly compared to other services…
… like bookmarks. So yes Yahoo! is gonna shut down Yahoo! bookmarks next year. The Delicious team has been working a lot on socializing Delicious with Twitter and Facebook. They recently introduced the ability link your Delicious account to your Yahoo! account in order to have a one sign in process.
Therefore we can safely say that the old new Yahoo! Bookmarks will be let go in the coming months. Now I would love to see them doing a smart move and, instead of just migrating Y!Bookmarks users over to Delicious, offer them a Yahoo-branded stylesheet by default. It’s a move I believe they should have done with all their acquisitions in order to simply integrate a third party product in the network with an optional CSS file to satisfy both Yahoo users and those who are reluctant to see the service linked to the Yahoo network. 2 CSS, 2 sign in methods, one databasis. Can it be so hard to implement? I dont think so honestly.
