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Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is my favorite social bookmarking system. It’s simple and unassuming. It’s also one of the first web apps that used tags for organizing content. But there are recent speculations that Delicious is being shutdown by its owner, Yahoo!The service started small, and started gaining momentum when “Web 2.0″ first became popular. Since acquired by Yahoo!, the big Y has tried integrating Delicious into its other services, such as a common login system. However, Delicious has largely stayed more or less the same, in terms of interface.A recent screenshot leaked by a former Yahoo! employee might suggest that Delicious is among Yahoo!’s “sunset” services, along with Buzz, Yahoo! Picks, AllTheWeb, AltaVista, MyBlogLog and Yahoo! Bookmarks. “Sunset” items are those that are planned for discontinuing over time.