The New York Times is dumping its internal Times File bookmarking feature: Times File allowed logged-in users to save a bookmark on the Times site for a given story. The feature will be removed from the site on 21-January-2009, but the ability to store a bookmark will disappeared from stories on 22-December-2008. The landing page currently doesn't explain the feature's upcoming trip to cold storage (the morgue is a newspaper's name for its filing system of old information) at this writing.
The Times said in its email announcement that social bookmarking sites can do the heavy lifting, and they can devote resources elsewhere.
The feature relied on software from LookSmart, which is offering a nifty transfer mechanism.
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