Remember when Yahoo! was going to dump Delicious and then it wasn’t going to dump Delicious. Now, TechCrunch reports that Yahoo! has sold Delicious to YouTube Founders. The YouTube founders now own a company named AVOS (YouTube now being owned by Google). The company intends to develop products for “information discovery”. I get the search vs discovery distinction and it is encouraging that Delicious may continue to develop. Delicious had a great user base but had languished in comparison to similar services such as Diigo. So, what was the goal of the purchase – the loyal users, a way to jump start a new project, and/or a product worthy of an upgrade?
Note – existing Delicious users are required to opt in as a way to transfer their accounts from Yahoo!