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Yahoo! Unloads Delicious

Small Business Mavericks

Unloads Delicious Yesterday, the Internet’s largest has been – Yahoo! – sold Delicious. So I suppose they had the money to buy the struggling social bookmarking website. Delicious is one of the early forerunners of social bookmarking. And it might have had it not been purchased by Yahoo!

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Don’t Put All Your Social Media Eggs In One Basket

Dave Fleet

Tweet So, a rumour says that Yahoo is shutting down Delicious … or not. It’s not just a free tool – it’s a key part of marketing activities for many brands (and has long since ceased to be free for many given application development and media buy costs). However, you don’t own them.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #100

Twist Image

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet - Gizmodo. "Perhaps a bit over the top in its anti- Yahoo slant, but this is a brilliant piece of anthropological history of the social web, and decline of one of the very first 'social networks.' Both Flickr and Delicious were bought by Yahoo!, " (Hugh for Mitch).

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SunButter Succeeds in Social Media Step-by-Step

Convince & Convert

It’s also delicious, as fans on the Internet will attest. I don’t have to visit Skittles.com before I buy a bag of Skittles. But although SunButter’s distribution is growing, it’s still not available in every store, and the most frequently asked question we hear is, “Where can I buy it?” Home Base and Outposts.

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Why Should You Invest in SEO?

Social Media Marketing

We all wanted to see the website we worked hard for with our blood, sweat, and tears to be on the first page of Google or Yahoo or even Bing. Whenever someone searches on search engines, that someone would get links to pages that Google, Yahoo or other search engines consider relevant and authoritative. But that’s it.

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Web Presence Optimization, Reloaded

Webbiquity SMM

Because more than 80% of consumer purchases and 90% of b2b buying cycles now begin with search. If your potential customers can’t find you, they can’t buy from you. Why is web presence optimization important? See the reputation management question below. Do I have to use all of the elements of web presence optimization?

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Delicious Social bookmarking is a great way to share interesting links that could aid in the development of an idea, education, and/or marketing efforts. Delicious is my favorite one to use for this. Answers Yahoo! It was great to also be able to share my experience with my Twitter followers and Facebook friends.