Web Two > Yahoo! buys del.icio.us
[Martin Gordons Blog] According to Joshua himself, Yahoo is now the proud owner of his social bookmarking site, del.icio.us. Yahoo is really getting serious in their Web 2.0 march by adding del.icio.us to their stable and finally reuniting del.icio.us with its long lost tagging half-brother, Flickr.
Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
AviDardik.com: Joshua announced today (via Cosmos)
[New Media Concepts News] A gadget guide, from Apple to Zipit: PC World - 12 hours ago Flickr and Del.icio.us are considered good examples of what some call the Web 2.0 era of Internet services. Web 2.0 is a much-debated
[Techcrunch.com] TechCrunch: I just got off an instant message conversation with Joshua Schachter, the founder of Del.icio.us. I was asking him for any comment on the Yahoo acquisition rumors and he pointed me to the del.icio.us blog.
[Ysearchblog.com] Yahoo! Search blog: Search, with a little help from your friends: Almost two years ago, one of our engineers was interested in buying a plasma TV and tried using web search to find a good site for reviews --- a quick search revealed that there were hundreds of sites offering to educate him on plasma TVs, yet short of visiting all the sites, it was difficult to figure out which site exactly was the 'best' site. So he did what millions of people do every day asked a friend, who recommended two excellent sites for plasma TV reviews.
[Waxy.org] Waxy.org: Daily Log: Yahoo Launches My Web 2.0: After mulling it over, I don't think that My Web 2.0 and sites like Del.icio.us are mutually exclusive. Because they both have open APIs, it's very possible to export your Del.icio.us bookmarks to My Web 2.0 for searching functionality or use a third-party service that posts to both.
[Readwriteweb.com] Read/WriteWeb: The comparison is unfair in some respects, but in terms of Mike being the hub of Silicon Valley in this Web 2.0 era - as Gatsby was (fictionally) in the Jazz era - it has a certain literary appeal. Especially as I had the pleasure of being a guest in the Arrington mansion for two weeks in October.
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