Yahoo! Says Delicious To Get the Boot, Not the Axe

geegel writes "In a statement on their Delicious official blog, Yahoo now claims that: 'No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive.' What that means can be everyone's guess, but at least for now, your delicious accounts are safe."

Comments

heh

[stoolpigeon]

This doesn't really change anything for me. They fired their people, and now issue a vague statement that implies they are looking for a buyer. So what? And they are disappointed that it got out, but I'm not. It gave me warning I might not have had otherwise.

just dump it already

[dsanfte]

Delicious is an anachronism from the early days of web 2.0. Most people share links on Facebook now.

Re:just dump it already

[dAzED1]

ps - I, and a lot of people I know, are also actively detaching themselves from Facebook, and making steps to limit any importance it has. Facebook sure as hell doesn't have anything that replaces delicious' primary functions. I still have a facebook account, but on it my wife is my brother (and yes, she's female in real life), an old co worker is my sister (he's female), my brother is my father, I'm widowed, I was born about 40 years earlier (makes for fun banner ads!), and I live in Beruit (versus living in northern San Diego). I only keep the account there because the old people in my family have figured it out, and they have fun sharing little things with the family. I have as much need for facebook in my life going forward as I do for a landline, or cable tv (no landline or cable for years...). There were two forks of the www; the "yay wall of junk and text php/geocities!" style sites that facebook is the crown jewel of, or the plain, non-hierarchical, nosql, functional, sites that understand that I'm dealing with more and more information each and every day, and the last thing I need is a distracting mess of a website that is supposed to be a tool in my life...ala, the simplistic interface of www.google.com, gmail, and yes - delicious. I'd say delicious is far less outdated, in principle, than facebook is. 10 years from now there will still be things that function/look more or less like delicious currently does; the same can't be said for facebook (if it's still around, it will look very, very different). Facebook is a website that tries (and fails) to make mobile apps; delicious is a REST api that fills a need/role, and is also a simple website if you need that too. As the platforms that people get online with change, so to will the www.

Re:2-3 potential buyers may have cancelled

[stoolpigeon]

The people I've talked to are not closing their accounts - they are exporting their bookmarks, looking for options, and waiting to see what happens. The fact that Diigo has been completely overwhelmed since the news broke makes me think something like this is happening a lot.