This week we discovered that Yahoo was “sunsetting” Delicious, the social bookmarking service. Does that mean shutting it down? Selling it? Who knows, but Marshall Kirkpatrick’s lament for the potential loss was our top story. As part of our annual year-end series on top products and developments we looked at Richard MacManus’ Top 10 Web products of 2010 as well as the year’s top 10 Internet of Things developments. And in our coverage of location issues, we looked at what Foursquare’s search for a data scientist means. Read on for more top stories!
Top Stories of the Week
- R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me
- Apple’s Best Kept Secret: Ad Hoc Installs for Testing Purposes
- 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2011
- Top 3 Code Editors For the iPad
- Delicious’s Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on Fire
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