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Revamped Delicious, Built by YouTube Founders, Now Live

The revamped Delicious, at least the first version of it, is here. After getting bought from Yahoo by AVOS, a startup created by two YouTube cofounders, the site has been rebuilt from the ground up. It will still feel familiar and many of the old concepts are still there, but the interface and the infrastructure hav...

27 September 2011
07:11 GMT

Old Timer Delicious Gets a New Lease on Life from YouTube Cofounders

Delicious, a venerable service by web standards, has had a rough time staying relevant for the past few years. Being stuck under Yahoo ownership didn't help. For a long time, it looked like yet another web 2.0 site that didn't fulfill its promise, like many of the other hot sites of the moment. When Yaho...

12 September 2011
06:41 GMT

Yahoo's Delicious Acquired by YouTube Founders

Delicious' fate is now finally known, the service which Yahoo has been trying to sell for the past months has been scooped up by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and will become part of their new company Avos which is labeled as a "new internet company.""Today, we’re pleased to announce that Del...

28 April 2011
04:10 GMT

Yahoo to Dump Delicious for as Low as $1 Million

Yahoo has been looking to sell Delicious for a few months now. That much has been known, but the latest rumors now have a price for the sale, it's in the $1 million to $2 million range, a bargain basement price for a property that still attracts several million visitors each month.Delicious may have its loyal fo...

18 March 2011
08:51 GMT

Import Your Delicious Bookmarks to Google

Delicious, though reaching a venerable age by internet standards, is still quite popular with a lot of people, as the whole Yahoo fiasco in December showed. At the time, rumors hinted at Delicious' imminent closure, leading to a lot of panicked users and a lot of opportunistic competitors. Google is a bit late t...

18 February 2011
10:31 GMT

Yahoo to Sell Off Delicious, Despite Rumors of Closure

Yahoo has finally gotten around to clarifying the fate of Delicious, a day after rumors of its closure leaked. While the company did put out a vague statement initially, it didn't say anything about Delicious specifically. Now though it's saying that the service may be sold off and it's complaining abo...

18 December 2010
05:10 GMT

Yahoo to Shut Down Delicious, MyBlogLog, Buzz and Others

The latest round of layoffs at Yahoo isn't the only piece of bad news at the company. Along with the people fired, Yahoo will be shutting down several of its products and restructuring others including Delicious, MyBlogLog, Yahoo Buzz and AltaVista. While some, particularly Delicious had a solid core audience, Y...

17 December 2010
04:33 GMT

Yahoo Messenger Gets Delicious Bookmarking

Yahoo is announcing an interesting, new feature in Yahoo Messenger, Delicious bookmarks integration. The feature has been in testing and has now been rolled out to Yahoo Messenger users. It allows them to easily save a link they receive in an IM conversation using Delicious and even share it with the world. "This we...

25 March 2010
09:39 GMT

Delicious Testing Yahoo Messenger Integration

The Delicious development team has been working lately on some interesting new features they often taunt users with on their blog. Recently, they've revealed to the world that they have been working alongside the Yahoo team to provide a simple way for Yahoo Messenger users to save links exchanged in the IM windo...

10 March 2010
09:29 GMT

Delicious Introduces New Search Options

Yahoo-owned social bookmarking site Delicious has announced a plethora of new features and improvements anticipating some of the trends like the “real-time” web. The new version brings more than just the usual set of fixes and tweaks and ads much improved search filters and graphs, a mobile version of the...

1 October 2009
10:58 GMT

Delicious Creator Launches Demo Threaded Twitter Conversation Site

Twitter is known and loved for its simplicity but the site creators' reluctance to add new features does have its drawbacks. One functionality that could have a significant impact is threaded conversations, something that Twitter doesn't currently support, forcing users to resort to all sorts of workarounds...

11 August 2009
08:27 GMT

Delicious Freshens Up, Integrates Twitter

There's a new-found love for real time on the Internet and in social media in particular. It may be a necessity or it may be an “everybody else is doing it” move but more and more services and sites are integrating real-time features, some useful some gimmicky. Yahoo's social bookmarking site De...

5 August 2009
02:35 GMT

Yahoo Releases Delicious Google Chrome Extension

Google Chrome may be faster in some cases and offer a more streamlined interface, but its developers know it has no real chance of gaining any traction without an add-on system. Add-on support, or extensions, as Chrome calls them, has been built-in for a while, but it isn't turned on by default, as it still is v...

3 July 2009
09:02 GMT


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