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Yahoo! Buys del.icio.us

Posted by Zonk on from the no-longer-merely-tasty dept.

HellSpam writes "The developers at del.icio.us have announced that they were purchased by Yahoo!. From the post: 'We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)'" For background on this purchase, carre4 writes "Stuart Maxwell, Jeff Barr, and Yahoo! team's Jeremy Zawodny recently did an interview explaining What's so cool about del.icio.us, in which Jeremy gave a non-committal answer about Yahoo acquiring del.ico.us"

6 of 210 comments (clear)

  1. whats wrong with our kids? by 0110011001110101 · · Score: 1, Funny
    del.icio.us, Flickr, Yahoo!!, and we wonder why more and more of our children are joining the ebonics generation...

    Guess it's better than the 133t speak generation, ughg

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  2. The deal may be delicious... by digitaldc · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but did it go down smoothly?

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  3. Re:So... by GweeDo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't you mean "rid.iculo.us" yahoo accounts?

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  4. all your base... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    belong.to.us

  5. Re:I see a trend by ultramk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Something like "People who have enjoyed the page you're currently on have also enjoyed the following: www.xxx.com, www.yyy.com, etc.

    You know, it wouldn't have killed you to put NSFW on that first link, and the second one isn't even working... jeesh.

    m-

    (yes, it's a joke.)

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  6. In Other News... by craXORjack · · Score: 2, Funny
    The top computer executive and last remaining employee from a dotcom era online delicatessan has let his web domain http://deli.cio.us/ lapse but plans to register a new domain http://face.tio.us/ which will compete head to head with The Onion, currently number two in the field of late-breaking, hard-hitting faux journalism. Herman has a new dream. Instead of Fed-Exing beef jerky, he wants to grow his satire's readership large enough to take over the number two spot. Then, through a leveraged buyout of The Onion become large enough to take on the 800 pound gorilla, Fox News.

    Says Herman Johnson, CIO of Mail Order Meats, 'my site was getting pounded hard by a bunch of yahoos who seemed to have no interest in spicy smoked meats. I don't know where they were coming from but it was one more in a long series of unfortunate events that burned through the last of my IPO money. Earlier this year I had already moved the offices from a 200,000 sq. ft. high rise in Mountain View to a corner of my parent's basement to try to conserve cash.'

    'Suddenly this storm of activity hit. They used up all my bandwidth but didn't buy anything, only leaving rude innuendoes in the forums about my kielbasa sausages. It was just time to try something new. Plus my mom needed the space in her deep freezer where I kept my inventory and the Slim Jims kept disappearing. I suspect an inside job. I told my dad I know it's him and if I ever catch him I will call the police.'

    Mail Order Meats (Stock symbol MOM) which once reached a high of 212 1/8 dollars a share now trades over the counter at 0.00004 cents.

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