Over winter break, one of the most discussed technology stories has been rumors of del.icio.us being either shut down outright or sold off by Yahoo. I have been a user of del.icio.us for a few years after years of using Furl. Nowadays, Zotero is clearly the best choice out there. I have only been archiving my academic research on Zotero, but perhaps it is time to move everything over there. Zotero is the best citation manager and document manager I have encountered yet, which will get even better once it is available as a standalone program, and saves copies of any page you save, which was one of my favorite features of Furl that is unfortunately not available for del.icio.us.
del.icio.us On Firefox
As the TechCrunch post says, if you aren’t using del.icio.us yet, this new Firefox extension they are reporting on should convert you. I have been using del.icio.us on and off for awhile. Recently I began to implement all of my bookmarks and links into it. Conveniently, this extension has come along that extends even further what I was doing and augments it by allowing tagged bookmarks to completely assimilate Firefox. Cool.