Back in December of last year Yahoo released a statement that they would close down several of their web properties. Among them popular social bookmarking site Delicious. The statement turned out to not be entirely true, as Yahoo later reassured Delicious’ users that they would keep the service running. Yesterday now we read on the [...]

Categories: Yahoo

It’s a sad day for search as Yahoo! have announced they’re to close the AltaVista search engine.  AllThingsDigital report that cutbacks at Yahoo! are responsible for the decision. Other products to be closed include MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Picks, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Buzz and Delicious. AltaVista was launched in 1995 and, for a great many people including [...]

Categories: Yahoo

The popular bookmarking service Delicious has been in business for several years. In that time, features have changed and the service even moved from its old domain del.icio.us to delicious.com. At least one major feature has been missing ever since the service was created, despite the changes that have been introduced throughout the years. It [...]

Categories: Online Services, Tutorials Basic

Users of the social bookmarking service Delicious were only able to use a bookmarklet in combination with the Google Chrome web browser if they wanted to improve their workflow when bookmarking new websites. The Delicious team has been hard at work to provide their Google Chrome users with an extension that would offer them the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

You need to search on multiple search engines if you truly want to research a search term, as opposed to simply finding a solution to it. Some users might think that searching in Google is enough to find all the relevant information about a search term and while that may be true more often than [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google

Worio is a clever mashup of several search engines, social bookmarking and personalization features. At its core stands the feature to add related information to searches performed by the user. Currently Google, Yahoo, Live and an internal search engine are at the user’s disposal. The search results are displayed on the left including their title, [...]

Categories: Online Services, Search Engines, The Web

While looking for something completely different I found a handy little tool called Bookmarked Reporter which can parse your site (or use an XML sitemap) and create a report of the delicious bookmark count for all the sub pages. This is great for blogs with many posts, it makes everything easier to track. Once you [...]

Categories: Tools

Alexa announced a new service a few days ago. Their What’s Hot on the Web service aggregates data from all Alexa toolbar users to provide a list of the hottest, i.e. the most visited, links of users who have the toolbar installed. One could say that it is similar to Digg but with a lesser [...]

Categories: The Web

It’s been a long time now since Yahoo acquired del.ico.us. Like most Yahoo acquisitions it was a great service and grew rapidly in popularity, but unfortunately was left to stagnate somewhat. Frankly del.icio.us was one of the founding Web 2.0 services, along with Wikipedia, Amazon and Ebay. It’s the most popular social bookmarking service, even [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web