Yahoo's gone and bought del.icio.us, just as I'd really got the hang of using tags. I hate Yahoo, first because they pollute everything with advertising, and second, because they are soulless corporate worldfuckers who would shank their grandmothers if there was a dime in it:

The text of the verdict in the case of journalist Shi Tao - sentenced in April to 10 years in prison for “divulging state secrets abroad” - shows that Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. provided China’s state security authorities with details that helped to identify and convict him, Reporters Without Borders said today.

“We already knew that Yahoo collaborates enthusiastically with the Chinese regime in questions of censorship, and now we know it is a Chinese police informant as well,” the press freedom organisation said.

“Yahoo obviously complied with requests from the Chinese authorities to furnish information regarding an IP address that linked Shi Tao to materials posted online, and the company will yet again simply state that they just conform to the laws of the countries in which they operate,” the organisation said. “But does the fact that this corporation operates under Chinese law free it from all ethical considerations? How far will it go to please Beijing?”

Better technical background with less drama can be found here. So yeah, bastards. And now they own my favourite bookmark organizer, so I've deleted my account and gone looking for a replacement. Right now I'm using furl (my links are here), which is clunkier but has pretty much the same functionality. Off the top of my head:

• the google ads piss me off but they only show up on the public view spoke too soon, they're all over my view as well. That's a dealbreaker as soon as I find an ad-free alternative.
  
• calling tags "topics" is stupid
  
• not allowing me to edit the default tags would be a dealbreaker if there were anywhere else to go
  
• searching by multiple tags doesn't seem to be available, which is just nuts, so maybe I'm missing it -- if I'm supposed to use the search syntax, bite me
  
• tagging posts from a drop-down list is another reason to keep looking
  
• the privacy policy is crap and there's a lousy feedback form instead of a development forum/blog
  
• there are import and export functions but I haven't checked to see whether they work with, say, spurl, which I've been using as a backup for del.icio.us (autoloading of furl links, as spurl does for del.icio.us, would be nice)
  
• There should be a way to hack the one-click button to post to whichever tag/s I want, but I can't figure it out (if html is a dialect of Martian, then fucking javascript is an obscure dialect of Ancient Martian)

I came up with about twenty different sites/applications while I was looking; for future reference and in case they're of use to readers, here they are:

http://protopage.com/v2
https://www.foldershare.com/
http://www.farfetch.com/
http://www.netvouz.com/
http://www.blinklist.com/
http://www.backpackit.com/
http://base.google.com/base/default
http://www.bitfolge.de/snif-en.html
http://www.linkroll.com/index.php
http://unalog.com/about/
http://toolbar.a9.com/
http://www.hyperlinkomatic.com/index.html
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/booksync
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Bookmarks&numpg=10&id=14
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Link_Management/
http://www.sync2it.com/
http://de.lirio.us/rubric
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/
http://www.mybookmarks.com/
http://www.myhq.com/