This has obviously sent a ripple of uncertainty around Yahoo and it's other properties that it has purchased over the years in attempts to stay relevant. Flickr is the latest one that may or may not be on shaky ground. Either way, Delicious' future is uncertain. If Yahoo cannot find a buyer it's lights out for this site.
If you use Delicious you are one of two types of users. The first is the true social networking bug and uses the site to share and get new bookmarks, the other is the user that uses Delicious as a cloud storage for their bookmarks. I don't know the stats but I assume most people are the storage kind. They probably use Firefox and have the Delicious plugin to get their bookmarks at work, at home and anywhere else they have a computer.
Regardless it's probably a good practice to backup now.
As I read about this mass Exodus away from the sinking ship, I have seen many alternative sites come up and mentioned except one. Google. If you are a Google user you can and don't care about the social aspect of a bookmarking site, you can use your Google account in partnership with the Google Chrome browser and store all your bookmarks in the 'cloud'.
Within Chrome there is an option to sync with your Google account.
Select to sync the bookmarks and it will store them in your Google Documents just as they are stored in Chrome. Then when you have multiple computers with Chrome it's instantaneous when you save or delete a bookmark, it's synced across all the browsers. That's because the bookmarks aren't stored on the one computer, they are stored up on Google that the browser then pulls down. Easy, fast, efficient.
This is what I use and have been for well over a year now. I used to use Delicious but dumped it when I moved to Chrome and there wasn't a matching plugin for Delicious that compared to the Firefox one.
End of Line.
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