Congratulations Del.icio.us!
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!
[...] This is a follow up to my post a few days back about the acquisition of del.icio.us by Yahoo!. Since this acquisition, the site seems to be down more than up. I’ve seen various error messages displayed on the site including the most recent one which blames the issue on power outages. C’mon Yahoo!, I understand that there are uncontrolable circumstances that can take a site down, but I’m begining to become sceptacle of all the excuses. Without bookmarks, what is a web geek supposed to do! This is the first time in a long long while that I’ve missed using my browser to store my bookmarks. Hopefully, these are just temporary switchover glitches, otherwise I might have to start using some other social bookmarking site like Furl. Del.icio.us is an immensly useful application with a powerful concept behind it, but in terms of technical implementation its not rocket science and there are tons of other social bookmarking sights just like del.icio.us. My advice to the administrators of del.icio.us is to get it back up and running before users decide to go with a more stable solution. [...]
[...] 1. Del.icio.us is a great social bookmarking app that helps users discover the best sites on the web while also providing a great mechanism for tracking one’s personal bookmarks. Recently, Yahoo! acquired Del.icio.us and despite the hard time I’ve been giving Del.icio.us lately, they still kick major ass in my book. [...]