When Yahoo announced it was to get rid of Delicious, trunk.ly sprang up as a neat alternative and users flocked to it in panic. It would allow you to save all the links you posted on Twitter, Facebook and various other services, I adopted trunk.ly and let it collect my links (more than 7000 of them) for the best part of a year. In the meantime, Avos bought Delicious and promised to maintain that service, albeit it in a different form. I do still use Delicious to feed selected news into Robert Slinn’s column on ChemSpy.com.

But, then the bombshell, trunk.ly just announced it too is selling out to Avos. Not such good news. That means that we’ve come full circle as its systems are now simply to be subsumed into the new Delicious.

Well, that’s a little annoying, to say the least, so I exported my trunk.ly repository as an html bookmarks file and imported them with “trunkly” as a tag into yet another bookmarking service that I’d been registered with for years – Diigo.

You can now check out my backed up links, all 7082 of them here.