On 9 December, Joshua Schachter announced that delicious has been acquired by Yahoo!. Del.icio.us is famous for making bookmark as an online social activity. It keeps your favorite links, makes it accessible them from any computer on the web, and allows you to explore and discover new things from other’s favorite. In fact, this discovery feature is so important that I believe that besides Google, the Web needs delicious. (To know more, read “Interview With Experts: What’s so cool about del.icio.us?“) Delicious allows me to find many interesting stuffs that I’d have otherwise missed: AJAX, Web 2.0, and many other online resources (check my homepage for some of recently added favorites).
In a way, I’m glad that delicious will have strong funding from Yahoo! I believe that delicious users will benefit from their reliability, support and technical expertise. On the other hand, I’m afraid that this acquisition and commodization of delicious will make it less useful as the increasing number of “noise” that comes from the large number of Yahoo! users. Of course, the opposite might also happened, as explained in the “Wisdom of Crowds” – delicious will be better as the number of users increases.
Only Google and Yahoo! Will Survive
To me, it seems that Google and Yahoo! are launching new online services every week and that they are buying all the interesting companies.
They just keeps growing and growing…. Will it ever stop?
I have just heard that delicious has been acq…