When is yahoo shutting down delicious

We'll let you know more as things develop," the blog post reads. Yahoo had a chance to clarify the matter Thursday and did not, contributing to the press coverage that the Delicious team found so upsetting.

On Thursday, a Yahoo corporate slide popped up on Twitter that showed Delicious among the services Yahoo plans to shut down, prompting an outcry among its loyal fans, who use the service to store, categorize and comment on links to websites. Asked to comment on the slide Thursday, a Yahoo spokeswoman sent a statement acknowledging that the company plans to cut what it considers "underperforming or off-strategy products" in the coming months.

She confirmed that social news site Buzz and Yahoo's Traffic APIs will be shut down, but didn't comment about other services listed on the slide as slated for closure, including Delicious and the geolocation tool Fire Eagle. Delicious is emblematic of the Web 2. I have emailed Yahoo for more information and verification and will update this post when I hear back.

Yahoo Product Manager Blake Irving has threatened to fire whomever leaked the slide. We continuously evaluate and prioritize our portfolio of products and services, and do plan to shut down some products in the coming months such as Yahoo! Buzz, our Traffic APIs, and others. He studied at the University of Georgia.

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