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Pinboard

Yahoo! are shutting down del.icio.us, ending their careless stewardship of a once-great service.

If you’re still using the bookmarking service, I recommend jumping ship to Pinboard. It will happily import all your del.icio.us bookmarks, and works very much like del.icio.us used to, minus the social aspects. At the time of writing, signing up will set you back $71.

See my (gushing) Pinboard review for more info.

Update: It turns out Yahoo! are planning to sell del.icio.us, instead of killing it off. This is good news. But as someone who switched to Pinboard in 2009, having used (and loved!) del.icio.us for six years, I can safely say that Pinboard is the better bookmark manager.

  1. Pinboard has an interesting pricing model: ‘The fee is based on the formula (number of users * $0.001), so the earlier you join, the less you pay.’ I’m no good at maths, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the price hit $10 come Monday. ↩