December 09, 2005
Great Tastes That Go Great Together
I've been a big fan of del.icio.us, 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 del.icio.us?, I was glad to masquerade as an expert.
If you've heard about del.icio.us 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, del.icio.us is part of the Yahoo! family."
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.
Welcome aboard!
Jeremy Zawodny
Yahoo! Search
Posted by Yahoo!Search at December 9, 2005 11:03 AM
Congratulations to del.icio.us and to Yahoo. It's absolutely wonderful to see Flickr and Del.icio.us together.
Posted by: TechCrunch at December 9, 2005 11:27 AMCongratulations, hopefully Yahoo will just help del.icio.us grow and improve.
Posted by: Pat McCarthy at December 9, 2005 11:40 AMhey Yahoo,
When will you be allowing Yahoo users to sign in to delicious with Yahoo usernames?
Posted by: Sooraj at December 9, 2005 11:49 AMExcellent! Great news!
Posted by: Pete Cashmore at December 9, 2005 12:17 PMthis is terrible news. please don't put giant flash banners and ads all over delicious. please.
Posted by: dasDAS at December 9, 2005 12:25 PMThis looks promising. I wonder what kind of social networks-based services will you come up from here on.
Posted by: ismael at December 9, 2005 12:42 PMPretty cool, though I never use delicious
Posted by: Jesse at December 9, 2005 12:43 PMPretty cool, though I never use delicious
Posted by: Jesse at December 9, 2005 12:45 PMBookmarked 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.
Posted by: Search Engines Web at December 9, 2005 12:47 PMCongratulations!
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 del.icio.us both.
Posted by: Ho John Lee at December 9, 2005 01:40 PMThis is one great move. Have a champagne and then please fix My Web 2.0, because it is broken lately.
Posted by: Dominik at December 9, 2005 01:47 PMCongrats to both parties. It has seemed slow for aquisitions the last few weeks, so this was welcome news (c:
Posted by: Werty at December 9, 2005 02:40 PMYea, that pretty much rules. Del.icio.us 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
Posted by: Dustin Diaz at December 9, 2005 02:54 PMCongratulations Jeremy and Y! team, but don't Yahoo ID for new del.icio.us please!
Posted by: juque at December 9, 2005 03:16 PMCongrats! Happy for this choice too. My LOVE for Yahoo is gettin' higher and higher
Thank you
Posted by: ticio.us at December 9, 2005 03:47 PMPerhaps 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.
Posted by: Joe Clark at December 9, 2005 04:49 PMDelicious news, and congrats but isn't it a duplication of effort? MyWeb 2.0 is too similar to del.icio.us, I'd like to see what your plan is.
Posted by: An at December 9, 2005 04:56 PMfor how much?
Posted by: Jon Wu at December 9, 2005 04:57 PMCongratulations!!! Yahoo gets more and more interesting...Del.icio.us is my favourite web service.
Posted by: Dimitar Vesselinov at December 9, 2005 05:11 PMI'm very scared. I've invested a lot of time and effort into del.icio.us because I love the concept, like supporting independant efforts and really appreciated the del.icio.us 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 del.icio.us, I'll be exporting and bailing FAST.
Sincerely concerned, AllanH
Posted by: Allan at December 9, 2005 05:55 PMPlease buy StumbleUpon also.
Posted by: TanNg at December 9, 2005 05:59 PMCongrats...between Flickr, del.icio.us, 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.
Posted by: Jason Wood at December 9, 2005 08:00 PMhere comes the spam!
Posted by: Hashim at December 9, 2005 08:37 PMWhile Google and MSN will fight between themselves Yahoo will take away with all the mullah
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While Google and MSN will fight between them Yahoo will take away with all the mullah
krish
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Jeremy and Yahoo! Team,
IMO, Yahoo! couldn't have done a better acquisition. This is great news. I love Del.icio.us and I love Yahoo!. Now you need to combine MyWeb with Del.icio.us to make an unmatched service.
Great News!
Farhan
Yahoo!, now don't let Technorati get out of your hand. Together with Blo.gs, Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Technorati, nothing will be in Yahoo!'s way to reclaiming the top spot online.
Posted by: Farhan Mashraqi at December 9, 2005 09:55 PMthis 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!
Posted by: Helen Wang at December 10, 2005 12:16 AMWow. Some of those comments on the del.icio.us 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.
Posted by: Dustin Diaz at December 10, 2005 12:16 AMNice move whats next ? Wondir.com ?
Posted by: Jay at December 10, 2005 01:22 AMThis SUCKS. I wonder how many anonymous users of del.icio.us 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
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick at December 10, 2005 01:38 AMY! - Who's next?
--An avid Internet browser
Posted by: InternetBrowser.org at December 10, 2005 02:58 AMGreat news. I hope to see that all these tools ( http://tinyurl.com/65a3b ) based on the del.icio.us API built by the active community are promoted and developed further to make del.icio.us even better.
Posted by: Ravi at December 10, 2005 04:48 AMAll I hope is that Yahoo doesn't change del.icio.us 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 del.icio.us to operate largely "independent" of the Yahoo network, and that del.icio.us 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 del.icio.us to support saving the web page bookmarked -- pretty much the way furl.net does it)
Posted by: Debajit at December 10, 2005 07:05 AMAll I hope is that Yahoo doesn't change del.icio.us 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 del.icio.us to operate largely "independent" of the Yahoo network, and that del.icio.us 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 del.icio.us to support saving the web page bookmarked -- pretty much the way furl.net does it)
Posted by: Debajit at December 10, 2005 07:10 AMThat is cool. I really like del.icio.us and I've always been a loyal user of Yahoo!
Posted by: Shay at December 10, 2005 11:02 AMYahoo!, 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.
Posted by: Ant Onaf Internet & Technology Blog at December 10, 2005 07:04 PMThat's good news for all concerned as long as the unique identity that delicious has created is not lost...
Posted by: Vinnie at December 12, 2005 02:39 AMThis 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
Posted by: Del at December 12, 2005 04:08 AMThe Blogging War just began... !!!
Posted by: Wong at December 14, 2005 06:37 AMI've been using del.icio.us for almost a year now and have never had any problems. Now, Yahoo buys del.icio.us and it seems to be "down for emergency maintenance" more then it is up. If Yahoo's plan was to buy and kill del.icio.us, they're doing a good job...
Posted by: Kirk at December 18, 2005 03:49 PMI've been using del.icio.us for almost a year now and have never had any problems. Now, Yahoo buys del.icio.us and it seems to be "down for emergency maintenance" more then it is up. If Yahoo's plan was to buy and kill del.icio.us, they're doing a good job...
Posted by: Kirk at December 18, 2005 03:50 PMI've been using del.icio.us for almost a year now and have never had any problems. Now, Yahoo buys del.icio.us and it seems to be "down for emergency maintenance" more then it is up. If Yahoo's plan was to buy and kill del.icio.us, they're doing a good job...
Posted by: Kirk at December 18, 2005 03:50 PMI agree wholeheartedly with Kirk. I'd actually stuck with del.icio.us, 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 del.icio.us 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.
Posted by: Allandaros at December 18, 2005 08:19 PMI wrote about this elsewhere:
"In the case of the recent del.icio.us 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 del.icio.us 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.
Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny at December 18, 2005 08:50 PMI...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 del.icio.us . 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?
Posted by: Allandaros at December 18, 2005 11:38 PMAmazing news. I think its brilliant for both del.icio.us and flickr. http://www.planetantiquescenter.com
Posted by: francis at December 20, 2005 02:07 AMAwesome! Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Francois at December 20, 2005 05:19 PMCongratulations!
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