Unconfirmed reports that Yahoo has sold Delicious for $5 Million+

http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/03/11/unconfirmed-reports-that-delicious-has-been-sold-for-5-million/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

by barredo • 15 years ago

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hassy• 15 years ago

so having joshu and not selling in desperation is worth at least $13 million

nostrademons2• 15 years ago

It's funny that multi-billion-$ Yahoo seems more desperate than angel-funded joshu.

movingahead• 15 years ago

I have been sticking with Delicious in the hope that Yahoo will sell it off to a good team, who can revive Delicious. Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously. Google Bookmarks is a joke - it doesn't even sync with Chrome.

polynomial• 15 years ago

>Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously.

Cannot uparrow enough. Anyone care to shed some light on this?

pclark2• 15 years ago

Google Search killed bookmarks, it's faster and easier to simply Google a vague string you remember from the page, rather than type a tag into a different service, or trawl through six hundred sites you have incoherently organised.

lkozma• 15 years ago

Maybe because bookmarking is a bit like TODO apps: not technically difficult to do but everyone hates using someone else's system. Of course, Delicious was the exception :)

Groxx• 15 years ago

I've been using a combination of Pinboard and XMarks. Overall extremely happy so far - Pinboard manages about a thousand and has tags and one-click "read later" and offline searching and is my primary backup, and XMarks keeps my dozen browsers and 500 bookmarks in sync transparently (stable + beta + dev + sometimes nightly versions of a number of browsers).

dabent• 15 years ago

I joined Pinboard.in a while back and love it.

davidwparker• 15 years ago

I use Chrome bookmarks and they sync to Google Docs... I'm not quite sure why they don't sync to Google Bookmarks. Nonetheless, I'm pleased with it as I'm on multiple systems and I still have my bookmarks built into my browser. Added bonus that when I start to "search" in the url/search bar, it brings up relevant bookmarks.

Tycho• 15 years ago

I swear by historio.us

And they might just get my subscription once I use up my last 70 or so free bookmark slots. The two best features are that you get a good search function, and it caches the page for you in case the original one falls off the net.

voxmatt2• 15 years ago

My problem with delicio.us was always the amount of time I had to devote to managing everything. I had to manage the links, the tags, my page, the plugins, etc... It's a wonderful service, but I always froze in that moment of bookmarking: what do I tag this? Where am I going to put this that I remember?

To that end, I've been trying historio.us. I'm not so sure about it, but I like that I just click one button and I know that if I really have to find it some day, I can. They killer feature that would make it truly useful is some sort of auto-filtering for what you're inputting.

pclark2• 15 years ago

I much prefer manual tags over automagical tags, as tags I create seem to resonate with my memory far better.

bostonvaulter2• 15 years ago

I just wish that delicious wasn't so exact when searching tags. For example, something a search for plugin would not match the tag plugins.

didip5• 15 years ago

If you like convenience, I think you will like http://mybucket.co

It operates and accessible via bookmarklet. Care to give it a try?

Oh, and tagging is as simple as #youruniquekeywords

dustingetz• 15 years ago

"create bucket" gave me a 500. fortunately i want this enough that i will come back later today! edit: works now. two bookmarklets please! one thing that annoys me about trunkly and delicious is that i have to click twice to save: once on the bookmarklet, and once to save.

voxmatt2• 15 years ago

I'd love to. How do I get an invite?

pig• 15 years ago

Have you tried Favbot? http://www.favbot.com/ I like it a lot.

bad_user• 15 years ago

The Delicious plugin I'm using is suggesting tags for me, and it's pretty good. I have no idea if the web interface does it, as I only used it for searching.

LiveTheDream• 15 years ago

Is it really that hard to come up with some tags? Also, delicious auto-suggests tags for many pages, and the suggests are very accurate.

I have a trunk.ly account now, which auto-imports my delicious bookmarks and indexes the page content so I get a personal search engine of all my bookmarked pages.

taken11• 15 years ago

hope the will use the old domain again, del.icio.us was so much better than delicious.com

brk• 15 years ago

How exactly was that a better domain? I always thought that part of the issue with delicious was that you couldn't easily tell someone about it.

"Del dot". "No, D-E-L, not Dell, it's not a Dell site". "DEL dot icio dot US". "Right, there is no www and no .com. It's just D E L dot I C I O dot U S. I don't know why they didn't use www or .com, maybe they wanted to seem hyper confusing to new users"

_delirium• 15 years ago

I kept mistyping it even when I was a semi-frequent user: del.icio.us, deli.cio.us, de.licio.us, del.ici.ous, etc. For some reason I kept doing the latter out of some sort of symmetry (3.3.3), even though obviously I know that .ous isn't a valid TLD. The even dot spacing is one reason I find cr.yp.to easier.

teaspoon• 15 years ago

Now that it's 2011, I'd probably say, "Google 'delicious'."

chrisboesing• 15 years ago

I wonder who the "competitor" is that bought delicious.

The first one that comes to mind is Digg, since Kevin Rose said he would like to buy it and Yahoo contacted Digg if they would by it[1]. The second one that comes to my mind is StumbleUpon, especially two days after raising a Series B of $17 Million[2].

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/kevin-rose-yahoo-contacted-...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/stumbleupon-stumbles-onto-1...

cmer• 15 years ago

I doubt Digg (the company) would bother. They are having more than enough trouble keeping their own ship afloat.

EDIT: then again, I wasn't aware of this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/kevin-rose-yahoo-contacted-...

mckoss2• 15 years ago

mahalo?

raganwald• 15 years ago

To save RiderOfGiraffes a few moments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2313351

barredo• 15 years ago

It's deleted now

alanh• 15 years ago

Hmm what’s the story here?

zaidf• 15 years ago

StumbleUpon may be? They just raised 17M...and seem to enjoy buying stuff back.

runevault• 15 years ago

Hm if they are really moving it, should probably make a more recent backup of my bookmarks just in case. Though I've not used the service much since word came down they are selling or sunsetting it.

blazer2• 15 years ago

Onion?

Why so under valuated?

LargeWu• 15 years ago

What makes you think $5 million is undervalued?

blazer2• 15 years ago

Because., It is Delicious. If they made an internal bid between Digg, Reddit, Google & Bing. They could sell it between $15-20 million. Because., It is the #1 social bookmarking service.

rinnku• 15 years ago

One day after we launch a new social bookmarking and community news site - http://www.rinnku.com - and Yahoo calls it quits!

The cowards... :)

jcslzr• 15 years ago

good site there, good luck

seems the secret its to fake the traffic at the begging, let me know if you find out how ;)

nivertech• 15 years ago

I interested to know, how much is OPEX per month to keep afloat a consumer web service, like delicious?

idlewords• 15 years ago

I think it depends on how aggressive you want to be about spam fighting. The marginal cost of running delicious is not high for Yahoo (especially now that they fired the entire dev team), but you need someone to go in there and tidy up after the spammers.

amitraman1• 15 years ago

Bad missteps at Yahoo!. Apparently they have a new faster e-mail. Yahoo email in Flash/Javascript + visual ads really ruined my experience with Yahoo.

u489982• 15 years ago

I want my browser to develop and improve the History feature so I don't have to rely on manual bookmarking. Strangely, no one is paying attention.

mckoss2• 15 years ago

I've been running social bookmarking service Faves.com for a couple of years. We had to cut our team as we were not making enough money to support it.

This year we've actually been cutting features to emphasize performance. I'd like to transition to a subscription model, myself. Prior to pinboard I wouldn't have thought that was an option.

Unconfirmed reports that Yahoo has sold Delicious for $5 Million+

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