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Yahoo! Buys del.icio.us
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"
i like http://simpy.com/ for social bookmarking. i've found it to be a good delicious alternative.
The Katrina PeopleFinder project http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Katrina_Peo pleFinder_Project was a group of volunteers who put together data from numerous Katrina sites. The team members used del.icio.us to add and tag links to sites with survivor/missing data. It was really a good resource, and the PeopleFinder project ultimately gathered over 640000 records and supported over a million searches.
I would be interested in seeing the list go on and on?
The companies you mentioned were acquired in many years ago (many in web years) in a time where lots of new ideas floundered and Yahoo was a very different company.
Do you think that Flickr is no longer thriving? Or that Konfabulator is languishing? Or that Oddpost wasn't well integrated into the new Yahoo Mail?
And I'd assume that EGroups became groups.yahoo.com which is the biggest groups community out there.
Geocities was obviously a piss-poor decision, but I guess I never knew why it was so great.
And while Broadcast was among many companies hailed as the beginning the first Web 2.0 that never happened, it seemed every venture into video made early in the decade failed.
It took about two months before Yahoo created dual logins for flickr and they say users will have to migrate by sometime in 2006. Probably a similar timeframe here. Especially since this integrates with Yahoo 360, My Web 2.0 in much more immediate ways than Flickr did.
http://video.google.com/ Really, click it.
Google: How does this benefit our end users?
If you think Google is about benefitting users and not making money, you're naive. Google is a public company now. Their sole responsibility is to their shareholders and not their "users".
And how many ads in each?
Yahoo has 1 ad at the top. Period. GMail has ads all along the side. So if you're counting numbers, GMail loses.
And more importantly: Google digs through your email to serve you ads. Don't you people find this just a little bit creepy? And these ads benefit the users.. how? Are they there to make money for GMail, or to somehow magically improve the content of your email message?
Alternatively, if you're just looking for fast local searching, there's delimport, which periodically sucks down your del.icio.us bookmarks and indexes them with Spotlight.