TechCrunch: Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 10:25
"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. … The YouTube founders plan to work closely with the community…
Business Insider: Exclusive: Yahoo Is About To Sell Delicious For $1-$2 Million
Friday, 18 March 2011, 00:28
"Yahoo is about to close a deal to sell bookmarking site Delicious for $1-$2 million, says a source familiar with the discussions."
ReadWriteWeb: Delicious’s Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on Fire
Friday, 17 December 2010, 11:36
"Yahoo! blocks all automated extraction of data from Delicious. The company apparently is going to let this unique cross between a museum, a library and a crazy old collector's attic burn to the ground. I'd like to take a few things with me before that happens, please."
Financial Times Tech Blog: Yahoo plans to kill Delicious, other services
Friday, 17 December 2010, 11:32
Joseph Menn: "Delicious was also a social system ahead of its time–and that gives a glimpse of how much opportunity in the area Yahoo squandered. Users tagged stories on the web with keywords that seemed to fit, then could search on those keywords to see what others found most relevant on the topic."
ReadWriteWeb: R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me
Thursday, 16 December 2010, 23:37
"Yahoo! announced internally today that it is closing down Delicious. It's a loss not just for the many people who used Delicious to archive links of interest to them around the web, it's a loss for the future – for what could have been. Five years later, people are just beginning to appreciate the value of passively published user activity data made available for analysis, personalization and more. That could have been you, Delicious."
Online Journalism Blog: Leaving Delicious – which replacement service will you use? (Comment call)
Thursday, 16 December 2010, 23:36
Paul Bradshaw: "if Delicious does shut down, where will you move to? Publish2? Pinboard.in? Diigo? Google Reader (sorry, not functional enough for me)? Or something else? Please post your comments."
Techcrunch: Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes]
Thursday, 16 December 2010, 23:26
Like I said in my talk to City University students a few weeks ago — never trust a third-party service to be around forever.
currybetdotnet: 5 ways that The Guardian puts external links onto web pages
Monday, 9 August 2010, 10:24
About the "5 different ways that The Guardian puts external links onto web pages."
Invisible Inkling: How I share: A tour of my personal linking behavior
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 07:39
Ryan Sholin explains his "admittedly edge-case-ish linking behavior", which is a bit more elaborate than my own method of finding and sharing information.
Adrian Short: Building a local news mashup with Twitter, TwitterFeed, Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, Ruby and RSS
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 07:28
Adrian Short shows how he combines local news sources for Sutton, London, including his blog, the local Newsquest-owned paper, the council and local politicians.
meish dot org: Consider Yourself On Notice
Saturday, 30 August 2008, 12:39
Meg Pickard thinks about Tumblr the way I do about delicious: "my digital scrapbook allows me to record some of the digital ephemera(/detritus) that I come across in my daily life online, and I can look back through it to find patterns…or not."
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 13:42
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Simon Dickson: "A couple of additions seem worth mentioning: a box for ‘REACTION FROM AROUND THE WEB’ (ie blogs) on the homepage, plus feeds from del.icio.us and Twitter accounts; and the rather odd spectacle of Sarah Montague’s video review"
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 13:41
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"Birmingham Post features writer Jo Ind has started incorporating Del.icio.us social bookmarks into her articles. … phrasing the link as ’suggested links’ (rather than ‘iPM Delicious’) and positioning it at the bottom of an article rather than a
Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 13:57
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Some good advice from Martin Belam on how to integrate your social bookmarking and your blogging.
