Gigaom: When social bookmarking service Delicious relaunched late last month under its new owners, YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, what was intended to be a triumphant return for one of Web 2.0′s iconic services turned instead into a sprawling mess. Where the team had hoped people would warm to the site’s new, more mainstream approach to tagging the web, any excitement was drowned out by a litany of complaints from existing users.
The popular social bookmark platform Delicious has just been acquired by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The site was originally operated by Yahoo! and will continue to be until approximately July according to their blog post. AVOS will now be the parent company of Delicious which is owned by Hurley and Chen.
Techi - With Delicious in purgatory, can anything bring the trend-setting social bookmarking site back to (even half of) its former glory, pre-Yahoo? Some are showing interest in buying it. Sources say Yahoo is going to get around to considering how to unload it in January. In the meantime, it’s just sort of… there.
Delicious is a failed cause... others are already hot on their heels making better bookmarking sites.
If you use Delicious, the social bookmarking website, we’ve got some bad news, turns out that Yahoo is canning the service or as it calls it showing it the “sunset”.
Turns out Delicious isn’t doing as well as you perhaps thought and so it’s not long for this world.
