YouTube Founders Aim to Revamp Delicious. More recently they picked an unlikely candidate to be their next Web sensation: a castoff.
The men are trying to inject new life into Delicious, a social bookmarking service that, in its time, was popular among the technorati, but failed to catch on with a broader audience. “What we plan to do,” Mr. After Delicious, YouTube Founders Acquire Business Intelligence Platform Tap11. AVOS, the new company formed by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has acquired Tap11, a real-time business intelligence platform.
The company’s platform integrates social publishing and analytics into a single dashboard to allow marketers to monitor, engage, and measure the impact of their campaigns. According to the press release, Tap11 works with over 500 major brands, media companies, and agencies. Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders. Yahoo has finally found a buyer for long suffering Delicious.
YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired the company, says Yahoo, via a “new Internet company, AVOS.” We’re still gathering details, but here’s the official stuff: Yahoo’s statement: