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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. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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Delicious Acquired by YouTube Founders

Mindjumpers

Tweet Yesterday it was announced that Youtube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen has acquired the social bookmarking platform Delicious, which has been owned by Yahoo since 2005. The new owners are committed running and improving Delicious going forward. After that information on Delicious will be moved over to the new owners.

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Not So Delicious

Social Media Marketing

Yahoo has decided to sunset some of its services, and that includes social bookmarking site Delicious. And here we see one of the inherent dangers of relying on (free) third-party sites for business and personal purposes. Delicious offered the following statement to users: Is Delicious being shut down?

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How to Manage Social Media Profiles

yMarketingMatters

The top bookmarking sites are StumbleUpon , Digg and Delicious. If you use all of these sites — or just one or two — that’s a ton to manage. Little wonder that business owners become overwhelmed when it comes to managing social media. This landscape may change in the coming year. But that doesn’t really matter.

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How the New Delicious Stacks Up

Social Media Marketing

You can now add Delicious to that mix.You'll recall that last December , Yahoo! decided to sell Delicious, and then in April, Delicious announced it had been acquired by AVOS. And for the following five months, everything seemed to be moving ahead steadily, with no visible change in the interface or service of Delicious.

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How I Use Delicious | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking How I Use Delicious Written on July 28, 2009 by Justin Levy in delicious , social bookmarking , social media 9 Comments - Leave a comment! My social bookmarking platform-of-choice is Delicious.

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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. They also look to backup their photos on Flickr, as people realize that site may not be a sure thing after all. Meanwhile, Facebook rolls out revamped Page layouts for brands… and then rolls them back, after first taking their site down for a while.