Close social bookmarking site del.icio.us after acquiring it for $ 35,000

Do you remember the era of social bookmarking sites? The site of the month of del.icio.us and then came to an end after being acquired by rival Pinboard for a small amount of $ 35 thousand dollars only.

Del.icio.us was founded 15 years ago and was sold five times during his life was the first to Yahoo, which paid an unknown amount between 15 to 30 million dollars !.

Pinboard announced that it will suspend the site on June 15 so that it will not receive new entries and will be available for read and display only.

The acquisition of Pinboard on del.icio.us is very logical as a large number of users of the latter moved to the first use after the acquisition of AVOS Systems owned by the founders of YouTube on del.icio.us, and under this acquisition, it will be able to transfer the rest of the users to the full .

But the most important question is, is there still interest in social preferences? For those who do not know it are sites where you put your favorite links to see the general public, such as a favorite web browser, but published on the Internet in general privacy.

Social favorites are suitable sites to explore content, find new links and interesting sites in an easy way and can be evaluated.