In which Yahoo! buys del.icio.us...
So the big news of the day around my way is the acquisition of weirdly punctuated site del.icio.us by weirdly punctuated site (and my current employers) Yahoo!. You can read more about it on the Yahoo search blog (Two Great Tastes That Go Together) and on the del.icio.us blog (y.ah.oo!):
Jeremy: As Joshua writes, the del.icio.us team will soon be working in close proximity to their fraternal twin, Flickr. And just like we've done with Flickr, we plan to give del.icio.us the resources, support, and room it needs to continue growing the service and community. Finally, don't be surprised if you see My Web and del.icio.us borrow a few ideas from each other in the future.
Joshua: We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)
Comments
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Holy crap on a stick. If this keeps up all the "Web 2.0" blog nerds will be working by Yahoo! by next month.
→ Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at December 9, 2005 7:33 PM
Yup! I think that's the plan!
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at December 9, 2005 7:48 PM
I'm not a bit surprised, I'm actually surprised it took this long!
→ Posted by: Douglas Clifton at December 10, 2005 4:40 AM
As i begin to fear google's information domination, i begin to appreciate yahoo's good taste when buying great apps (and hiring extraordinary people).
→ Posted by: jesus gollonet at December 10, 2005 10:35 AM
Bring on the Yahoo! IDs, heavy HTML, and animated ads!
Next thing you know, Yahoo! will acquire GeoURL and Memepool.
I guess it's time for me to get ser.io.us about open alternatives like linkmonger source (based on the original linkmonger).
→ Posted by: Trevor F. Smith at December 10, 2005 12:09 PM
exactly! look at all the heavy html and animated ads they added to flickr and upcoming!
oh, wait. dork.
→ Posted by: buttercup at December 10, 2005 10:00 PM
Flickr has a business model which doesn't depend on selling functionality easily recreated by first year college students.
The unique value of del.icio.us is entirely in its scale (which JS does very well, no doubt) but I just don't believe that people will pay for social bookmarking when there will be a flurry of free alternatives.
So, I predict that Yahoo! will wrap del.icio.us into its offerings more tightly than Flickr, which means branding, Yahoo! IDs, and ads.
In six months we'll see how del.icio.us has changed. I'm hopeful but not optimistic that I'll be wrong.
→ Posted by: Trevor F. Smith at December 11, 2005 12:03 PM
And lest we not forget, Konfabulator is now the "Yahoo! Widget Engine," Oddpost now goes by "Yahoo! Mail," and launch.com will respond to "Yahoo! Music" if you yell it out at a party.
→ Posted by: Trevor F. Smith at December 16, 2005 10:56 AM
Six months have passed and no ads have appeared, no Yahoo IDs are required, and though the HTML is a little heavier, it's still pretty sweet.
When I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
→ Posted by: Trevor F. Smith at June 28, 2006 12:27 AM
Upcoming.org is now upcoming.yahoo.com with Y! logins.
I continue to be completely wrong about del.icio.us, for some reason, despite most of the 2005 acquisitions' slow absorption into the mothership.
→ Posted by: Trevor F. Smith at June 26, 2007 5:21 AM