I’ve been using delicious since 2004. It’s no surprise to see Yahoo abandon delicious finally but it still hurts to see a promising product failing to get the attention/resource it deserves. Back in 2005/06, when tagging and folksnomies were at their peak, I could see delicious as the “central” memory for links.

Fast forward to 2008. I was in foocamp. There was a night session called “Computational Photography” and it was Joshua who hosted it. I went there and found PG, Tim O’Reilly and a couple of other folks interested in AR were there. Joshua wanted to show cool videos on youtube but just couldn't find it. Here is the conversation between Joshua and Tim that has stuck in my mind ever since.

  > J: Forget it. I just can’t find it.
  > J: I wish there is a service I can share my links with others. 
  > T: That’ll be delicious!

3 months ago, @timbull and I started developing trunk.ly. To me, it’s picking up the torch of delicious and delivering a promise of “never forget a link again”. Trunk.ly pulls in all the links you’ve shared on different social networks, twitter, facebook, and of course delicious, and make them full text searchable.

Trunk.ly is still in its invite-only pre-beta stage. It's not as aesthetically attractive as we'd like it to be. It still has minor bugs. But we'll try out best to send out as many invites as possible so that you can pull in all of your delicious bookmarks before Yahoo completely shut it down.

Here are what others have said about trunk.ly:

Fenn Bailey, founder of Adioso, YC09 alumni

  > I honestly thought I'd only need to use it 
  > sporadically ... however within the day of 
  > installing it I was already reaching for 
  > Trunkly to find something I'd said

Rand Fish, founder/CEO of SEOmoz

  > Trunk.ly is a deceptively simple … 
  > I've been surprised at how often I use 
  > it just to find the things I tweeted!

@bootload, fellow entrepreneur

  > with #delicious rotting and rumours of shutting
  > down this makes #trunkly a great #geek #christmas present