Saturday, December 10, 2005

delicious and yahoo - not so strange bedfellows

The official del.icio.us blog spills the beans. Yahoo has bought del.icio.us. link.
We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)
I'm interesting in seeing how yahoo will use delicious. It already has flickr but there is no "integration" of any kind between some of the traditional yahoo services such as mail, geocities etc and flickr. For that matter, there is no integration, that I remember of, between yahoo photos and flickr.

I also tried to find a press release on the same from Yahoo, but no such info was available. Hmmm.

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