YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious

[Isofarro]

http://blog.delicious.com/

[kmfrk]

I would not be surprised, if Chad and Steve were avid users of the service, and that part of their motivation for the acquisition was to keep it that way.

[jonknee]

The confirmation email about my agreeing to the transfer included a humorous bug:

"Originating IP address: 127.0.0.1"

[thehodge]

I wonder how many of the current userbase will login and transfer the bookmarks, I guess theres a lot of value in the historical accounts that won't transfer with the deal..

[thefreshteapot → thehodge]

This may be true, yet its a great indicator for both parties to see how many users are willing/current in the system. It certainly can be a line in the sand fir future comparisons.

[there → thehodge]

i wonder how much of the current userbase hasn't already switched to pinboard.

[il → there]

Since it's easy to calculate Pinboard's user numbers, apparenty most of them. Browser bookmark sync is probably a much bigger alternative.

[keyle]

That's fantastic news. I'm one of those that spent ages bookmarking and properly tagging. Finally, there is hope for Yahoo! Only it's outside of Yahoo!

[allwein → keyle]

What will be amusing if Yahoo later acquires the newly invigorated Delicious 18 months from now.

[MaysonL → allwein]

Actually, much more amusing when Google does so.

[bad_user → keyle]

I kind of hope for something like this to happen to Flickr, too -- Yahoo has had good taste on acquisitions, but such a waist of potential is sad.

[lizzard]

I'm glad to hear it won't be going away - I built a huge api-based service off Delicious that my whole team uses, and I really like how it works.

[Dylanfm]

I'm glad I didn't stop using it. Thanks Chad and Steve. I wonder if they have plans for further development, or are just going to maintain it?

[wonjun]

is Google going to buy Delicious next?

[jimktrains2]

What if we use our Yahoo login with delicious?

[cbryan → jimktrains2]

You'll get asked to migrate your login and data over to the "new" system. I did it earlier and it didn't take long at all.

[jimktrains2 → cbryan]

:) Just got the email and did it and was coming back to post that I know know:-p

Thanks!

[lotusleaf1987]

Much bigger discussion, literally right above: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2490067