Fans of Delicious, an online bookmarking service, raised a ruckus after word leaked four months ago that its owner, Yahoo, might shutter it as part of a streamlining plan.
To deflect the criticism, Yahoo quickly promised to find Delicious a new home rather than kill it.
On Wednesday, Yahoo said that it had succeeded in finding a buyer — a team led by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the co-founders of YouTube. Their acquisition is a surprise move for the duo, who quietly left YouTube in the years after it was bought by Google five years ago for $1.65 billion.
“We’re excited to work with this fantastic community and take Delicious to the next level,” said Mr. Hurley, who is chief executive of AVOS, a new company that will own Delicious. “We see a tremendous opportunity to simplify the way users save and share content they discover anywhere on the Web.”
They probably got it for peanuts. But what will they do with it?
BillyS
2:51 am on Apr 28, 2011 (gmt 0)
Do people really use this service?
anshul
8:36 am on Apr 28, 2011 (gmt 0)
Sometimes I think mathematics and physics professor~ism is better, clearer and realistic than the IT professionalism.
rooo
2:12 pm on Apr 28, 2011 (gmt 0)
I still use delicious - even so fars as 'hacking' Firefox 4 to get the add on working. Perhaps I'm stuck in my bookmarking ways, but I can't imagine life without it at the moment!
s2011
4:47 pm on Apr 28, 2011 (gmt 0)
There are a few social bookmarking sites, my question is why?. The only way to make money is by perhaps targeted advertising and people are not really using them as much now. If I were them Id try get back into search and portals by buying something like Hulu.com, or a neat meta search engine like Mamma.com or visual search engine like Qwiki.com or yometa.com.
walkman
9:12 pm on Apr 28, 2011 (gmt 0)
I still use delicious - even so fars as 'hacking' Firefox 4 to get the add on working. Perhaps I'm stuck in my bookmarking ways, but I can't imagine life without it at the moment!
So the Youtube boys saved you from certain suicide? ;)
