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YouTube Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen Preparing To Roll Out New Delicious UI Later This Year

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:01:07 +0000

This past April YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen acquired link-sharing service Delicious.com from Yahoo! The two are prepared to launch a new version of Delicious.com later this year. Delicious is one of the most popular bookmarking services today. Delicious allows people to save and bookmark links from the Internet for future reference and organizing them using tags. Personally I am not a fan of Delicious as I like Google Bookmarks better.

Hurley and Chen said that they plan to overhaul the design of Delicious while still utilizing the tagging and link sharing system. The core of Delicious will remain the same. The new version of Delicious is expected to launch later this year. The new version of Delicious will have a major focus on advertising that uses the social data collected from link sharing.

[NY Times]

YouTube Co-Founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley Acquire Delicious From Yahoo!

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:33:33 +0000

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has sold off Delicious (formerly known as Del.icio.us) to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Hurley and Chen will continue to operate Delicious as it is for the next couple of months as users will be able to sign up for new accounts. The parent company of Delicious will now be AVOS, a company that was started by Hurley and Chen. Below is a press release about the transaction. [Yodel Anecdotal]

YOUTUBE FOUNDERS ACQUIRE DELICIOUS FROM YAHOO!

Promise Users the Same Great Service And Even Easier & More Fun Ways To Save, Share, and Discover the Web’s “Tastiest” Content.

San Francisco, CA., – April 26, 2011 – Delicious.com, the leading social bookmarking service, has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. As creators of the largest online video platform, they have firsthand experience enabling millions of users to share their experiences with the world. Their vision for Delicious is to continue to provide the same great service users love and to make the site even easier and more fun to save, share, and discover the web’s “tastiest” content. Delicious will become part of AVOS, a new Internet company.

“We’re excited to work with this fantastic community and take Delicious to the next level,” said Chad Hurley, CEO of AVOS. “We see a tremendous opportunity to simplify the way users save and share content they discover anywhere on the web.”

“We spoke with numerous parties interested in acquiring the site, and chose Chad and Steve based on their passion and unique vision for Delicious,” said John Matheny, SVP of Communications and Communities at Yahoo!

The YouTube founders plan to work closely with the community over the next few months to develop innovative features to help solve the problem of information overload. “We see this problem not just in the world of video, but also cutting across every information-intensive media type,” said Chen.

Going back to their roots, Hurley and Chen located Delicious in downtown San Mateo, California, blocks away from where they started YouTube. They’re aggressively hiring to build a world-class team to take on the challenge of building the best information discovery service on the web.

About Delicious
Delicious is the leading social bookmarking service for saving, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. Started in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, Delicious has built a passionate, worldwide community of millions of users. In 2011, Delicious was acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Previously, they co-founded YouTube, the world’s largest video site in 2005, which was acquired by Google 18 months later for $1.76B. Delicious is part of AVOS, a new Internet company based in San Mateo, California.

For press inquiries, contact press@avos.com.

Yahoo! To Sell Delicious For Under $2 Million [RUMOR]

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:16:47 +0000

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is considering selling Delicious for between $1-$2 million according to a BusinessInsider source. It is uncertain which company is buying Delicious, but the source knows it is a “strategic partner.” Some potential partners may include Digg or StumbleUpon. The reason why it is taking a while to spin off Delicious is because the bookmarking website depends entirely on Yahoo!’s technology. Delicious currently does not have a revenue model, but it has a very loyal community.

How To Import Delicious Bookmarks Into Google

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:39:11 +0000

Google has recently announced a way to import your Yahoo! Delicious bookmarks into their own bookmarking service. When you go to google.com/bookmarks and click on the “Import Delicious Bookmarks,” you are asked to log in using your Yahoo! or Delicious account credentials. It imports all of your bookmarks with all of the tags associated with them. Google Bookmarks launched in 2005 and is a very popular service. Yahoo! has indicated recently that they want to spin-off Delicious, possibly to Kevin Rose and the Digg team.

Yahoo! Attempted To Unload Delicious On Digg

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:52:04 +0000

On the Diggnation podcast, Digg founder Kevin Rose revealed that he had talks with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) about taking over Delicious. This was before an internal memo leaked where Yahoo! said they are planning to sunset Delicious.

Initially Rose said he thought Yahoo! wanted to sell them off, but it turns out they wanted to give Delicious a new home in general. That is when they started talking about how much it would cost to keep Delicious online.

Rose wrote in a tweet after the slide leaked that he would be interested in buying Delicious and combining it with Digg to make one giant bookmarking website. One of the ideas he had in upgrading Delicious is by allowing users to take a snapshot of websites that they bookmarked. He also believed that audio recording and audio annotations would be a good addition to Delicious bookmarks. Rose had also contacted Delicious founder Joshua Schachter to find out if he would join him in working on a project to enhance Delicious. He does not know whether Yahoo! would hand Delicious to him or not.

How To Import Your Delicious Bookmarks Into Springpad

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:41:54 +0000

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has made it clear that they are not shutting down Delicious, but they are interested in spinning them off or selling it. Because of this recently developed news about Delicious, users have been actively finding ways to import their bookmarks into other services. Springpad is now offering a seamless solution for importing your Delicious bookmarks. Here is how to do it.

Below are instructions from the Springpad blog:
1. Login to your Delicious account, then go to Settings -> Export / Backup Bookmarks to export your bookmarks. Springpad will import your tags & notes, so be sure to include them in your export.
2. Log in to your Springpad or go here to create a new account
3. Follow the instructions for uploading your Delicious bookmarks – You will be prompted when the upload is complete!

Kevin Rose Says He Would Really Like To Buy Delicious

Amit Chowdhry — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:47:57 +0000

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) did a terrible job integrating social bookmarking service Delicious into their own eco-system. Five years later the company is now talking about spinning the company off.

Former Yahoo! engineer for Delicious Dave Dash said “Yahoo! lacks vision. It had Delicious for years, but didn’t properly place it in its eco-system. It ignored the founder for the most part, and switched the management team above it repeatedly.”

Digg founder Kevin Rose expressed interest in Delicious by saying “I’d really like to buy del.icio.us and make a seriously rad social bookmarking site, screenshot archives of bookmarks/audio annotations etc.” Beacon Hill Apps founder and CEO Jesse Waites responded by saying “@kevinrose Why don’t you buy Digg and make it a rad social media site?”

Delicious Is Not Shutting Down, But Yahoo! Wants To Spin Them Off

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:19:08 +0000

A rumor spread around yesterday that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) was going to shut down Delicious, but they are seriously considering spinning them off instead. “While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive,” said Delicious in a blog post. Some people are worried about all of the data that they have stored in Delicious. Delicious said not to worry about exporting anything. There are some export options if you choose to take your data out.

Yahoo! To Shut Down AltaVista, Buzz, Delicious, and MyBlogLog [RUMOR]

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:55:44 +0000

A slide has been leaked at Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). The slide reveals that some of Yahoo!’s properties will be “sunset,” merged, and make features. The sunset properties include Yahoo! Picks, Altavista, AllTheWeb, Delicious, MyBlogLog, and Yahoo! Buzz.

“Part of our organizational streamlining involves cutting our investment in underperforming or off-strategy products to put better focus on our core strengths and fund new innovation in the next year and beyond. We continuously evaluate and prioritize our portfolio of products and services, and do plan to shut down some products in the coming months such as Yahoo! Buzz, our Traffic APIs, and others. We will communicate specific plans when appropriate,” said Yahoo! in a statement to SearchEngineLand.com.

Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Now Running A Funded Company Called Tasty Labs

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:45:32 +0000

Joshua Schachter founded Delicious and sold it to Yahoo! in December 2005. Then he left Yahoo! in 2008 to join Google in 2009. This year he is involved in a stealth start-up company called Tasty Labs. According to the company’s homepage, Tasty Labs will put “the useful back into social software.” Tasty Labs has funding from Union Square and Andreessen Horowitz. [Union Square Ventures Blog]