Yahoo buys del.icio.us - keep it free!
Written by Richard MacManus / December 9, 2005 12:06 PM
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As TechCrunch reported, Joshua Schachter has announced the sale of Del.icio.us to (who else) Yahoo. Personally I'm thrilled Yahoo got del.icio.us, but I'm hoping they don't make it into a walled garden like they did with the My Web 2.0 product. Currently a user can export their data from del.icio.us, but they can't do that from My Web 2.0. I've written many times about this issue - I've even emailed My Web 2.0 senior managers, urging them to open it up. But still it remains a closed property… not very Web 2.0 :-( So I hope Yahoo doesn't ruin a good thing and close off del.icio.us. I'm sure they won't. More details on my ZDNet blog.
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Why makes you sure about that? I am concerned myself about just that kind of thing.
Tipper put in a very pretty walled garden in our backyard. Perhaps yahoo is doing the same.
-- Al
er, thanks Al.
Yahoo has ruined just about every service they acquire in the name of "improvements". I can't see that del.icio.us will be any different. It was nice while it lasted.