Are Social Bookmarks Still Delicious? Yahoo has announced that it’s selling the social-bookmarking service Delicious to YouTube’s cofounders, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who plan to make it part of a new startup called AVOS.
Delicious was one of the first startups to tap into social media and user-generated content, but it has languished for the past couple of years. Hurley and Chen say they’re going to support and improve Delicious, but they may have to work to remind people why social bookmarking is still relevant. When Delicious was launched in 2003, the site was a revelation. Born of the personal experience of analyst Joshua Schachter—who maintained a site called Memepool on which he collected interesting links—Delicious allowed users to publicly bookmark sites and add tags to describe them. Patents. R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me. Social bookmarking service Delicious announced five years ago last Thursday that it had been acquired by Yahoo The first comment posted on the blog entry announcing the deal was from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, saying "Congratulations!
Yahoo sure does get tagging I see. " When I heard the news, I felt very differently. I was deeply saddened that it wasn't US Library of Congress to acquire Delicious. Five years later, Yahoo announced internally today that it is closing down Delicious. No date has been given for its closure.