Now, we have confirmed report that Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, and AltaVista, according to a Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. Eric Marcoullier, the co-founder of MyBlogLog — one of the sites purportedly affected by the shutdown — tweeted a picture of what appears to be a presentation slide from a Yahoo products all hands presentation, dividing various Yahoo web products into “Sunset,” “Merge,” and “Make Feature.” The news comes one day after Yahoo slashed 4 percent of its workforce, or roughly 600 employees.

Other services that are going be shut down include Yahoo Picks, AlltheWeb.com, Yahoo Bookmarks, and MyBlogLog. The slide in question, posted by MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier, shows three rows labeled sunset, merge, and make feature. The aforementioned services were listed under sunset; services under merge include Fire Eagle, Upcoming, Sideline, FoxyTunes, Yahoo Events, and Yahoo People Search.

Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President Blake Irving seems to have all but confirmed the authenticity of Marcoullier’s slide with a threat to fire whoever leaked it. The tweet reads – “@bpm140 @joshu Really dude? Can’t wait to find out how you got the web cast. Whoever it is, gone!”

When contacted, here is what was received as the the official response from Yahoo:

“Part of our organizational streamlining involves cutting our investment in underperforming or off-strategy products to put better focus on our core strengths and fund new innovation in the next year and beyond. We continuously evaluate and prioritize our portfolio of products and services, and do plan to shut down some products in the coming months such as Yahoo! Buzz, our Traffic APIs, and others. We will communicate specific plans when appropriate.”

For all we know, this PR statement is synonymous to saying -”Yes, you’ve the correct information. We are going to shut down all of those reported web properties“!

If this is for real, the sunset of Delicious is the biggest shock on the list. While it isn’t the dominant Web 2.0 force it was when it launched in 2003, it still has an active userbase, and the Delicious blog shows that Yahoo has been continually upgrading aspects of the service, with a posting as recent as December 9th. Closing Delicious could be one of the biggest mistakes made by Yahoo and there is no way that regular users are going to take this news lightly. I for one am appalled at the way Yahoo is dealing with this.

How to Backup your Delicious Bookmarks:

Now if you are an active Delicious user, we expect you already know how to export your bookmarks. Those who don’t know how to export your Delicious bookmarks and wondering how to do it, you just need to visit this link. And after logging in, you can export all the bookmarks you’ve made in form of an HTML File. Go do it when the Delicious site is still functioning.

Update: Britta Gustafson, formerly a Delicious team member, responds to a “please explain” thread in Delicious’ forums as such: “Unfortunately there are no team members left to explain – they were laid off on Tuesday, according to what they’ve said on Twitter.” Gustafson claims to be posting as “a user with no special knowledge.”

Update2: A #savedelicious campaign has sprung up among Delicious users who don’t want to see the service killed off.

Yahoo Messenger 10 (v10.0.0.1102) incorporates many bug fixes , including some bugs related to new video call feature, and improves on overall stability of the product. Yahoo! Messenger 10 also allows user to troubleshoot with detailed connection log, helpful when user cannot login to Yahoo! Messenger despite repetitive attempts. Also this version will be compatible with Windows 7 Operating system.

If you are trying to download the new yahoo messenger 10 from the official download page, then you will have to first download a small setup file around 360KB. The full version will be then downloaded and installed only after running this setup file. But there is a work around by which you can download yahoo messenger 10 full offline installer file. [Check end of this post for the direct download link]

What’s new in Yahoo Messenger 10
- The important changes included with this update in yahoo messenger is video calls feature. They have completely redesigned the 1:1 webcam feature. High quality video calls could be made right in the IM window and the audio will be much more synched.

- Get the latest updates from your friends Yahoo!, Flickr, Twitter and more with the new “Updates” view.

- New features also include the ability to swap video windows, position video windows side by side, mute and hold calls and full screen video call.Adding special effects to your video calls depends on the type of camera and manufacturer.

- Chat with visitors on your social network profiles, blog or website through Yahoo! Messenger 10. (Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox)

Download Yahoo Messenger 10 Offline Installer Direct Link [download now]

GeoCities is a web of user-created pages that was one of the pioneers of some of the basic tenets of social networking. Yahoo! bought GeoCities for $3.65 billion a few years ago, but sites like Facebook and Twitter left it in the dust.

Outdated as its features are, you’ve got to be sad to see GeoCities go. It was among the most iconic (and ubiquitous) services in the earliest days of widespread adoption of the social web. Geocities was originally opened in 1995 as BHI (Beverly Hills Internet). Many people used GeoCities in the late 90s to get a taste of web programming, and some see GeoCities as the progenitor of the blogging movement.

In April 2009, Yahoo announced that GeoCities would cease accepting new registrations in preparation of the service’s closing. In June, they clarified: the service would shut down on Oct. 26, 2009. As their FAQ states, GeoCities is not being decommissioned — it’s being deleted. That means any data not personally backed up by its owners or readers will not be recoverable, ever.

At the time, Yahoo’s acquisition of GeoCities was seen as spectacular and the $3.65 billion price made the headlines. 1999 was of course the height of the dot com bubble followed by the now legendary dot com burst. Back then though, the site was the third most visited online property after Yahoo and AOL but several bad decisions from Yahoo, spurred by the lack of revenue, and the fact that the service itself was quickly becoming obsolete, have seen its user numbers and traffic drop dramatically leading to the decision to close it down earlier this year. That said, the closure marks the end of an Internet era.