It looks like Yahoo’s cost-cutting efforts go beyond its recent layoffs. The company plans to “sunset” (i.e., shut down) a number of products including social bookmarking service Delicious, according to what looks like a leaked slide from a company-wide presentation.
The risk of losing data when a company closes a service is a very real part of cloud computing.
Update: Here’s how to move your Delicious links over to Google’s cloud. Which is probably a little more stable than Yahoo’s at this point.