Friday, April 29, 2011

Yahoo sells Delicious to YouTube founders

Delicious ,The Popular Online Social Bookmarking  web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks Owned By Web Giant Yahoo Has Finally Found a Buyer Relieving The Doubts of Future of Delicious.
Delicious Lets the Users To Bookmark Sites,Tag And Flag Sites Which they Found Interesting Around The WEb .They Can Also Share The Bookmarks With other Delicious users.
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen,The Founders of of video-sharing site YouTube have bought The Bookmarking Site Which was Considered To be A Popular Application of Web2.0.
The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005 With $18 Million .By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs.Delicious.
Yahoo Failed To Bring Up the Delicious To Present Times Unlike The other Competitors.It Has A Serious Competition From Digg,Stumble Upon .
In December 2010, Delicious was put in the sunset list by Yahoo!, which included the products that the company wanted to kill.
A Good News For Delicious Present Users who Feared That The Product Would Be Shutdown . The Founders Of Youtube,the Megaminds Behind The Internet's Largest Online Video Platform Expressed Their Excitement And Promised That They plan to continue the service that users have come to know and love and make the site even easier and more fun to save, share and discover the web’s “tastiest” content.

They will use Delicious as a key part of their next net venture called "AVOS".
Delicious Will be Available in Current Form Until July 2011.Users Will be Allowed To be Login With Their Yahoo Account .It Will Be using Yahoo Login Until The Next Move Made by New Owners!!
Read more On Delicious Blog

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