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Delicious Founder: I Wish I Had Not Sold to Yahoo By Selim_Oklay

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Source: Mashable!

Aug 11, 2009

Summary

Back in 2005 (a long time in the social media world), Yahoo acquired Delicious, the popular social bookmarking website. Both Yahoo and Delicious founder Joshua Schachter had big plans to change the way we share, remember, and discover information on the Internet. Yahoo even promised “to give Delicious the resources, support, and room it needs to continue growing the service and community.”

It’s four years later, and Delicious has gone nowhere. For years it stagnated – until recently when it started launching new features. Still, Delicious has hit a ceiling in terms of growth and development, and understandably its founder is not happy about it.

His comments came about during a conversation on Hacker News. Joshua responded to a comment claiming Yahoo was cool with “Since when is Yahoo cool?” Then he described Yahoo as a “sausage factory” before making the following statement:

I guess. I think the folks that pay Linus or whatever have done more for OS. Sun’s opensolaris, too. MySQL, etc too. Just by sheer weight of code.

The problem is that the number of c

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Comments (2)

Wpbasti,

Aug 11, 2009

No wonder. Yahoo is not that relevant anymore and they definitely get a lot of things wrong recently.

Roberto,

Aug 12, 2009

My suggestion is: if nothing to make in 5 years more, let us move for http://www.quickbookmarks.com or to excellent,the wonderful one: http://www.linkagogo.net