Delicious Buys Trunk.ly Link-Saving Site, Will Shut It Down

AVOS Systems, the company that relaunched De.licio.us and is made up of the original founders of YouTube, has bought Internet bookmarking site trunk.ly and will shut it down, AVOS said Wednesday.

Trunk.ly technology will eventually be folded into Delicious.com, the revamped de.licio.us site, AVOS said. Trunk.ly collects every link that users share or "like" on Web sites such as Twitter, Facebook,Canadian Jakke and LinkedIn, and stores them in one place to make them easy to find, much like Delicious is used to socially store bookmarks.

The purchase means that trunk.ly will stop accepting signups effective immediately, and that the site will only be operational for another two months with minimal support. After that, the company said,Canada Goose Parka the site will be shut down. Users will be able to migrate their links, however, by visiting the Trunk.ly export site and exporting them to another service.

AVOS is made up of Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who founded YouTube, which was purchased by Google for $1.76 billion. The two relaunched Delicious in September.

On Monday, AVOS said that users had picked up D.me as a redirected shortcut to delicious.com,Canada Goose Trillium and that users would be given a unique d.me email address that could be used as a destination for emailed links.

"It became clear from the first discussion with Trunk.ly's founders that our visions for the future of bookmarking and discovery were closely aligned," said Hurley, chief executive of AVOS, in a statement. "Their technology and insights will accelerate link-saving and searching capabilities in Delicious."

Tim Bull and Alex Dong, who co-founded trunk.ly, thanked their users in a blog post.

"We never expected that 12 months ago we would grow Trunk.ly to the success it's become and we really do owe that to you,Canada Goose our users who have helped us, supported us and promoted us along the way," the two wrote. "We really hope you'll join us at Delicious, we're very excited to be working with them, there is a great team there with ambitious plans and together we hope to build the best way to discover and collect the web."

Afghanistan bombing kills at least 7 outside mosque

Relatives gather around the body of a police commander killed in a bombing at a mosque in Baghlan, Afghanistan. (Naqeeb Ahmed / EPA / November 6, 2011)

The attack in Baghlan province comes on the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday and is condemned by Afghan officials as un-Islamic.
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan—Belstaff
The most important holiday of the Muslim calendar got off to a violent start in Afghanistan on Sunday when suspected insurgents staged a bombing outside a mosque in the north, killing at least seven worshipers and injuring more than a dozen other people, Afghan officials said.

The attack in Baghlan province, which came on the first day of the three-day Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, was condemned by Afghan officials as un-Islamic. Gen. John Allen, the U.S. Marine who commands all Western forces in the country, called the bombing "despicable."Belstaff Outlet

Only two days earlier, the Taliban movement's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, had issued an Eid message in which he called on his fighters to make a concerted effort to avoid causing civilian casualties. About three-quarters of noncombatant deaths and injuries are attributed by independent observers to the Taliban and other insurgent groups.

In his message, Omar blamed the presence of foreign troops for violence, but added that mujahedin, or holy warriors, "have to take every step to protect the lives … of ordinary people, in accordance with their religious responsibility."

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Sunday's attack. However, a number of insurgent groups operate in northern Afghanistan, and Omar generally has more authority over fighters in the Taliban's traditional heartland in the south.

Two bombers took part in the Baghlan attack, according to Afghan police, but one was shot dead before he could detonate his explosives. The police described all the dead as civilians, but said at least two were thought to be involved in local militias created in recent months with Western backing.Belstaff Jacket

North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops have begun gradually handing over security responsibilities to Afghan police and soldiers in various parts of the country, and all or part of several northern provinces are to be included in the next phase of the security transition.

But some local officials have said Afghan forces are not sufficiently trained or equipped to take the lead in quelling the insurgency, and the north has been the scene of several high-profile attacks this year, previously a rarity.

Also Sunday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force reported the death of a service member, whose nationality was not disclosed, in western Afghanistan. Most U.S. troops are deployed in the country's south and east.Belstaff Jacken

More than 500 members of the NATO force have died so far this year, three-quarters of them Americans, according to the independent website icasualties.org.