Comments on: Yahoo! Acquired del.icio.us

By: EngLee

EngLee — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:55:12 +0000

I’m quite agree with your thinking. When you know they are doing it for profit, you wouldn’t really want to use it anymore.

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:48:02 +0000

In a way I think it is a bit of a shame, surely Yahoo can only want it to increase profits. I prefer using software which I know the main purpose of it is not to create the owner revenue. For example I love WordPress, it’s free customizable and completely opensource. I personally feel that servics such as Flickr are extremely over rated and I cannot not see why so many bloggers choose to use them.

I really hope Yahoo leave Del.icio.us as it is and don’t stick a label on the bottom proclaiming “A Yahoo Company”. We’ll see…

By: Anurag Bhandari

Anurag Bhandari — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:06:02 +0000

Its not that shocking news because it is the rule or say nature of business in which acquisitions are common and if the acquiring firm is a big enterprise such as Yahoo!, it is not that hard to imagine. I think, it will only make the life of most bloggers easy anyway

By: EngLee

EngLee — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 14:07:50 +0000

When I first read about it, I have exactly the same thought as you.

If they acquired them and run it as a independently, I guess they are just trying to eliminate potential competitor. Or probably they wanted to acquired some technologies from them? No idea.

By: Wan Zafran

Wan Zafran — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:01:09 +0000

This is a surprising piece of news.

Though, I do wonder how they’ll be able to integrate del.icio.us’ features with their MyWeb 2.0 thingy? Or will they run it as a separate piece of software, akin to Flickr and Yahoo! Photos?

Hmm, questions, questions.