It was announced last week that Yahoo! has aquired the hugely popular social bookmark tagging site Del.icio.us. I’ve been using Del.icio.us for quite some time now and am absolutely enamoured with it. In addition to providing me with a great way to store and organize my bookmarks, del.icio.us helps me to find the best content on the internet. If you have not checked out Del.icio.us yet, do yourself a favor and check it out right now.
It was bitter sweet for me to hear about the aquisition of Del.icio.us by Yahoo! this week. I’m happy that all of the hard work that the developers of Del.icio.us put in has paid off, but I’m concerned about what Yahoo! will do with my beloved social bookmarking app. Up untill now, Del.icio.us has been completely free to use and free of ads (which is perplexing). This aquisition by Yahoo! falls in line with other aquisitions they have made lately (see flickr). Yahoo! has become a force to be reconned with in this next generation of the web. What an exciting time to be a geek!
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