Pinboard buys social bookmarking site del.icio.us and closes it down

The once-loved -- and much sold -- social bookmarking site del.icio.us (or just Delicious, if you prefer), has changed hands for one final time. Rival service Pinboard has snapped up the site for a mere $35,000, and plans to close it down. Warning that no one should "attempt to compete with Pinboard," a post on the company blog adopts a Trump-like tone in announcing the acquisition. In less than two weeks, del.icio.us will be switched to read-only mode. Del.icio.us was once wildly popular, and was something of a leader in the world of the social internet. Pinboard notes that it… [Continue Reading]