Great Tastes That Go Great Together
I’ve been a big fan of Delicious, the social bookmarking service Joshua Schachter created, for quite a while now. So much so that when Dave Taylor recently asked for “experts” to help explain What’s so cool about Delicious?, I was glad to masquerade as an expert.
If you’ve heard about Delicious but never tried it or weren’t quite sure what to make of it, read that article. I think it helps to demystify the cult-like following that many of us are part of.
The last question Dave asked during that interview was:
And so, is Yahoo interested in buying delicious and integrating it into the Yahoo offerings? :-)
I’d like to change the non-committal answer I gave to this: “Yes! And as of today, Delicious is part of the Yahoo! family.”
As Joshua writes, the Delicious 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 Delicious 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 Delicious borrow a few ideas from each other in the future.
Welcome aboard!
Jeremy Zawodny
Yahoo! Search
Congratulations to Delicious and to Yahoo. It’s absolutely wonderful to see Flickr and Delicious together.
Congratulations, hopefully Yahoo will just help Delicious grow and improve.
hey Yahoo,
When will you be allowing Yahoo users to sign in to delicious with Yahoo usernames?
Excellent! Great news!
this is terrible news. please don’t put giant flash banners and ads all over delicious. please.
This looks promising. I wonder what kind of social networks-based services will you come up from here on.
Pretty cool, though I never use delicious
Bookmarked sites be used as a factor in the Yahoo SERPs Algorithms (both the Personalization and General ALOGs)
In other words, a Bookmark should be equivalent to a Good Backwards Link for a given site.
It is another way of VOTING for a site.
To save a Web Page to the Favorites is one of the most sincere forms of attesting to the quality of that site.
So, this data could be helpful in not only Personalization SERPs – but the General SERPs.
Congratulations!
I now have faith in Yahoo again :)
Please implement dual login system as on flickr.
Congratulations, I think this is a great move for Yahoo and Delicious both.
This is one great move. Have a champagne and then please fix My Web 2.0, because it is broken lately.
Congrats to both parties. It has seemed slow for aquisitions the last few weeks, so this was welcome news (c:
Yea, that pretty much rules. Delicious has by far been my favorite bookmarking tool. I’m sure Yahoo! is only going to make it better. I’m only curious as to how we’re going to be integrating it with our other software
Congratulations Jeremy and Y! team, but don’t Yahoo ID for new Delicious please!
Congrats! Happy for this choice too. My LOVE for Yahoo is gettin’ higher and higher
Thank you
Perhaps now delicious will stop being so unusably slow on Safari (three *minutes* to load the bookmarking window) and so uncomfortably slow in Firefox.
Then let’s talk about the interface design and (non)typography.
Delicious news, and congrats but isn’t it a duplication of effort? MyWeb 2.0 is too similar to Delicious, I’d like to see what your plan is.
for how much?
Congratulations!!! Yahoo gets more and more interesting…Delicious is my favourite web service.
I’m very scared. I’ve invested a lot of time and effort into Delicious because I love the concept, like supporting independant efforts and really appreciated the Delicious aesthetic.
As one commenter said already, *please* don’t put banner ads and typical Yahoo! crap all over my bookmarks and please don’t go the Flickr route and force people to use Yahoo! accounts to sign in.
If any of that, or any other commercial aspects enter Delicious, I’ll be exporting and bailing FAST.
Sincerely concerned, AllanH
Please buy StumbleUpon also.
Congrats…between Flickr, Delicious, the revamped email and maps, and a few fantasy leagues, it’s getting impossible to ignore the fact Yahoo! is becoming an integral part of my online existence.
here comes the spam!
While Google and MSN will fight between them Yahoo will take away with all the mullah
krish
adpunch
Jeremy and Yahoo! Team,
IMO, Yahoo! couldn’t have done a better acquisition. This is great news. I love Delicious and I love Yahoo!. Now you need to combine MyWeb with Delicious to make an unmatched service.
Great News!
Farhan
Yahoo!, now don’t let Technorati get out of your hand. Together with Blo.gs, Delicious, Flickr, and Technorati, nothing will be in Yahoo!’s way to reclaiming the top spot online.
this is great news for anyone who uses the internet for research.
you can expect every journalist on the planet to have a yahoo/delicious account.
i certainly couldnt keep up with all the great news and blog sites if it werent for MyWeb.
Congratulations!! This is a great news!
Wow. Some of those comments on the Delicious blog are getting pretty nasty. Some should really watch what they say. I’ve yet to see someone (against the idea) with a valid point.
Nice move whats next ? Wondir.com ?
This SUCKS. I wonder how many anonymous users of Delicious there are in China. they’d better watch out, as it’s clear y’all don’t care how long they spend in prison for the contents of… their bookmark archives???? http://committeetoprotectbloggers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2005/9/7/1205565.html
Y! – Who’s next?
–An avid Internet browser
Great news. I hope to see that all these tools ( http://tinyurl.com/65a3b ) based on the Delicious API built by the active community are promoted and developed further to make Delicious even better.
All I hope is that Yahoo doesn’t change Delicious for the worse.
Yahoo clearly botched up the Flickr sign-up screen, which would obviously detract new visitors from signing up. (Thankfully upcoming.org — now a Yahoo company — still retains much of its old flavour).
I just hope that Yahoo allows Delicious to operate largely “independent” of the Yahoo network, and that Delicious remains the simple, elegant and efficient web service that we’ve grown to love.
(One nice feature that I’d like to see for sure is for the new Delicious to support saving the web page bookmarked — pretty much the way furl.net does it)
That is cool. I really like Delicious and I’ve always been a loyal user of Yahoo!
Yahoo!, Oddpost, Flickr, delicious !
I was just waiting for this adventure and I am glad to be part of.
I think this a great acquisition. It fits right with Yahoo! current community-building scheme. They definitely expect to gain traffic from this opposed to gaining financial profit. Though, in years to come Yahoo! could potentially make a revenue stream from this.
That’s good news for all concerned as long as the unique identity that delicious has created is not lost…
This is very cool, I have to say I thought it would be google, but it just goes to show ;)
Del.Dave del.dave@clicknet.com
The Blogging War just began… !!!
I’ve been using Delicious for almost a year now and have never had any problems. Now, Yahoo buys Delicious and it seems to be “down for emergency maintenance” more then it is up. If Yahoo’s plan was to buy and kill Delicious, they’re doing a good job…
I agree wholeheartedly with Kirk. I’d actually stuck with Delicious, even though my first instinct was to immediately send everything somewhere else. I thought “let’s give Yahoo a chance on this one.”
If my tags are still available when Delicious returns, and there’s not a REALLY good explanation, I’m lifting jets as soon as I can.
Thank you, Yahoo, for devouring nifty services and doing bad things with them.
I wrote about this elsewhere:
“In the case of the recent Delicious outages, there was a power loss at the data center. (If you remember back, LiveJournal had a similar problem earlier this year.) And now there’s a failed disk in a one-off piece of specialty hardware that needs to get replaced. Joshua has been dealing with that as best he can and we’re accelerating the process of getting Delicious some new infrastructure.”
“Flickr still gets a massage once in a while too. Such is life. Scaling is hard but growth is good. The outages are becoming less frequent. (It’s not like Google didn’t have problems with Blogger for a while too.)”
Full post: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005935.html
So, hopefully you’ll consdier that and “fatal hardware errors” a REALLY good explanation.
I…guess I do.
I really should follow your advice re: Hanlon’s Razor, but you have to admit it’s kind of eyerow-raising when the purchase and the power outages seem to hit one after the other.
I should clarify my prior post. I don’t want to switch from Delicious . It’s got a wonderful UI, is easy to use, and integrates well with my web-browsing. I’ve come to rely on it. Is it small wonder that I’m somewhat paranoid about bad things happening to it?
Amazing news. I think its brilliant for both Delicious and flickr. http://www.planetantiquescenter.com
Awesome! Keep up the good work!
Congratulations!
Here we go again (December 27 at 7:00 PM). Delicious is down again. Last time was for days. I have never seen this kind of terrible performance with Google and I am in Google constantly. Get your act together Yahoo!!
I’m not a yahoo fan but I see how this can work. Yahoo is good at building communities and running services based on that. For example there’s google answers vs yahoo answers. Google answers is run by money (and people but mostly money.) Google is based on its page rank system, and yahoo! could incorporate a social bookmark rank to list sites. The site would be more relevant because of the people power involved in uploading site urls to the tagging directory.
Totally agree about this “If you’ve heard about Delicious but never tried it or weren’t quite sure what to make of it, read that article. I think it helps to demystify the cult-like following that many of us are part of.”
The main page says it all … Yahoo trys to do everything … you can’t do one great thing if you are attempting to do/offer everything!!
I’m curious whether yahoo will buy delicious. It don’t matter if there is one more imperium.