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Yahoo! Unloads Delicious

Small Business Mavericks

Unloads Delicious Yesterday, the Internet’s largest has been – Yahoo! – sold Delicious. Delicious is one of the early forerunners of social bookmarking. The question is, can these two successful entrepreneurs take Delicious and turn it into a superstar? That at least gives me a little bit of confidence in the future of Delicious. sent out an e-mail to Delicious members asking for their permission to transfer bookmarks to AVOS, Mssrs.

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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. Delicious will become part of their new Internet company AVOS based in San Matero, California. Yahoo will continue running Delicious for a transition period until July 2011.

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How to use delicious

Social Media Marketing

Promote yourself and your website with help of delicious. But mainly we are not know that how to use delicious. Today In this article I can tell you that how you can create Delicious account and how we use this. when click on Delicious to join Open your gmail id and and conform your identity. Now click on tools option and click on add to Delicious and bookmark this as I show you in image. Follow you friends and other on delicious Post links, images to delicious.

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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. But before you panic about Delicious, it looks like there may be a future for them after all - just not at Yahoo. In their own blog, Delicious states that they will in fact remain open for business - just not with Yahoo. Delicious offered the following statement to users: Is Delicious being shut down? No, we are not shutting down 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. There are several other choices but Delicious remains the most popular and most widely used. Never tried using Delicious before or just starting out?

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Rumor: Yahoo Sells Delicious | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

The latest is around the social bookmarking site Delicious. I think that is a gross underestimation of Delicious’s value, though I’m no expert on business valuations. And if you use Delicious, then you won’t have to export your bookmarks to someplace else. Personally, I hope Delicious sticks around. Still no word as to who the new owner of Delicious might be. Should we jump for joy if Delicious was sold? About Us What’s a Maverick?

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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. This is akin to what used to be called "bundles" on Delicious. What do you think of the changes at Delicious?

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Meet the Delicious New Product Designed for Instagram

Convince & Convert

From the overall concept of designing a product for Instagram to the event exclusivity and delicious flavors, there are many compelling layers. Chances are, you’ve had a moment like this: A gorgeous meal or beverage is placed in front of you. It’s so beautiful and drool-worthy that you cannot resist the urge to snap a photo and share it across your social media sites. This is precisely the sentiment and inspiration behind Sonic’s new Square Shakes.

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Replacing Delicious as a Publishing Tool

Net-Savvy Executive

Yahoo is killing off Delicious , the social bookmarking service that I've used since 2005. The challenge here is to replace what Delicious does in my publishing workflow. I use Delicious to support dynamic content on multiple websites. I don't suppose anyone thought of offering Delicious Pro accounts. This is inconvenient. I don't need to spend my time rebuilding stuff that already works. First priority is saving all the bookmarks.

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Open social bookmarking service to rival Delicious

The Way of the Web

A quick check has shown that I’ve been using Delicious since November 2006 , although my addiction to Google Reader means I’ve never used social bookmarking as heavily as some friends and colleagues. than with Delicious and Diigo. I’ve never really built huge networks on social bookmarking sites (50 on delicious, 8 on diggo), compared with social networks (3.5k open source social networks delicious diigo freelis.us

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Delicous 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. Delicious will become part of their new Internet company AVOS based in San Matero, California. Yahoo will continue running Delicious for a transition period until July 2011.

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Tips on How PR Pros Can Create Social Media Success

Mindjumpers

This means that it can be of great value to consider creating a social news backgrounder together with your pitch, using a site such as Delicious. Delicious can be useful as a kind of social news backgrounder, since it can hold different links to relevant articles and information on subjects that you would like to pitch to the media. Social Media Tips blog connected conversation delicious Mashable Netvibes news aggregation services PR pros social news backgrounder success

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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > 10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don’t Involve Twitter and Facebook 10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don’t Involve Twitter and Facebook by Tamar Weinberg on March 17, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Itamar Kestenbaum. Follow him on Twitter. Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response.

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New Research Finds the Curation vs Creation Sweet Spot

Convince & Convert

Whether you’re on a first date, meeting new people at a dinner party, or making it rain on Twitter, it’s just not a good idea to go on and on about yourself. It’s just awkward. Conventional social media marketing wisdom suggests that brands should avoid being overly self-promotional. Thus, brands seek to “be a part of the conversation” by sharing links that are relevant to their followers but often not specifically about their products and services.

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Social Networking, Bookmarking, and Sharing

Kikolani

Delicious. Sending a Link on Delicious. Add Delicious members to your network. Delicious is known primarily as a social bookmarking site. There are many great ways to use Delicious for bookmarking, such as bookmarking posts with descriptive tags so you can find them later. 8 Reasons to Use Delicious for Social Bookmarking. Tags: Social Media amplify delicious diigo facebook stumbleupon twitter

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5 tools that make life easier

Josh S Peters

Though instead of a crack pipe or heroin spoon I use Evernote, Xobni, WiseStamp, Delicious, and Bitly. Delicious. If it does them you need to get familiar with Delicious. I often send clients and co-workers links to my Delicious tags if they’re looking for more information on certain topics (like social media ). Life Online Social Media Bitly delicious Evernote Productivity WiseStamp XobniProductivity is like a drug.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008: Social Media, SEO, and More " techipedia | tamar weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

7 Social Media Websites and their Impact on SEO explores Mixx, Sphinn, Twitter, Digg, delicious, StumbleUpon, and Reddit and shows the positive and negative impact of using each. delicious: 6 Ways to Make Life Easier with delicious : How many of you actually use delicious as a search engine? How to Analyze Your Site with Delicious : Ann Smarty dissects the various parts of delicious.com and shows you how you can learn more about your website.

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Social media metrics: why, what and how to measure according to Jim Sterne

Social Email Marketing

Social media management Social media metrics and measurement Social media ROI blogging bookmarking consumer-generated content customer satisfaction David Berkowitz Delicious Digg Facebook Flickr Forums and message boards Jim Sterne key performance indicator KPI LinkedIn lower costs Marketers Studio marketing mix media sharing micro-blogging Ning raise revenue roi sentiment social media marketing Social Media Metrics social networks StumbleUpon YouTube

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Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows.

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Weblog. Send Feedback. Video Tour. Capture, record, share. Communication is evolving. Capture Images. Snap a picture of anything on your desktop. Record Video. Record video of what you do, or what you see. Share Online. Instantly uploaded. Share in email, IM, or blogs. Download. For Mac OS X. Download. For Windows. What is this thing called Jing? Video tour. The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and videoâ?¦from from your computer to anywhere.

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My Love Affair With Pocket

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If we go back to the early days of online content, I quickly became enamored with Delicious (which, at the time, was a bookmarking service coupled with an online social network). You could not only save and retrieve content on Delicious, but you could follow friends and see what they were saving. Over the years, other services came online, Delicious got acquired by Yahoo , RSS readers (like Google Reader ) came into play and, well, things just started getting messy again.

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To Thine Own Audience Be True

Josh S Peters

Social media in particular offers a delicious menu of choices. Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » To Thine Own Audience Be True To Thine Own Audience Be True Written on June 9, 2010 by Josh Peters in Social Media 2 Comments - Leave a comment! Part of the fun of being a communication professional today is the variety of platforms available to share information.

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A Pinteresting Story

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Is Pinterest delicious? For those who have been around the digital block, Pinterest seems like a more modern play on Delicious (which is a social bookmarking service for saving and sharing your web bookmarks). Delicious was created by Joshua Schacter in 2003 as the notion of tagging (or labeling) content to make it findable by others begun to take hold. Delicious got acquired by Yahoo in 2005 and became the defacto destination to share one's bookmarks online.

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Celebrating the most important marriage of the week…

The Way of the Web

I’m celebrating the marriage of Delicious , the incredibly useful and powerful social bookmarking service which was neglected since acquisition by Yahoo, with new owners AVOS, which despite sounding like a major shopping website, is actually the new company from Youtube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Delicious may have stagnated but there’s a huge amount of data there, just waiting to be utilised more effectively. And no, it’s not the royal wedding.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #266

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Has Search Replaced Bookmarking?

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There's no denying that I'm a fan of Delicious - the online social bookmarking service (I Blogged about my love for Delicious back in 2007, right here: Why del.icio.us I was really sad to hear that Yahoo (who bought the company in 2005) may be ditching the service (more that here: Leaked Slide Shows Yahoo Is Killing Delicious & Other Web Apps and here: Yahoo Claims It's Not Killing Delicious ), but not all that surprised. delicious.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #100

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When I first rediscovered the Web in 2004, it was WordPress , Wikipedia , Flickr and Delicious that revealed to me a new future. Both Flickr and Delicious were bought by Yahoo!, delicious. 93Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

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Blogging Is Dead (Again)

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Did you read the news? Blogging is dead. Mostly because young people are just not that into it. Why go through the hassle of thinking up unique thoughts, trying to formulate them into sentences and paragraphs, and then pull it all together in a text-based Blog post?

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The Value Of Blog Comments

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They can share it as a bookmark (with comments) on Delicious or Google Bookmarks. delicious. blog blogcomment blogger blogging bookmark content delicious digg email engagement gigaom googlebookmarks googleplus link linkedin linking marketing mathewingram onlinecommunity onlinesocialnetwork onlinevideo publishing reddit rss smartphone socialmedia socialproof stumbleupon trackback tumblr tweet twitterfacebook vimeo viral youtube

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KM Edge: Where the best in Knowledge Management come together

Buzz Marketing for Technology

KMEdge. KM Edge: Where the best in Knowledge Management come together. APQC knowledge management km best practices. Sign In. KM Topics. KM Overview. Case Studies. About Us. Search. -->. Knowledge Transfer in the Internet Age. By Lauren Trees on June 26, 2008. Comments (0). Over the past few months, a lot has been written about how the Internet and other technologies are affecting the way in which we read, think, and learn.

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3 Recipe Sites’ Social Strategies

Meltwater

Sometimes, it can seem like the internet was made specifically for food content.Aspirational, yet obtainable, recipe-focused content showcases beautiful, delicious food and it’s ingredients. Not sure what to cook tonight?… … Read More >>>. PR & Comms

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Get Hundreds of Links to Your Next Blog Post, Guaranteed

Viper Chill

In the late 1800′s, Kaiser Wilhelm wanted to get rid of a number of his associates in the German government. Since many of them were old, he decided to set the age of retirement to 65 and successfully forced them out of their positions. To this day, we still use the same retirement age around the world. If you’re wondering what the point of sharing that was then let me say this: There was no point.

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Why Social Media Is a Better Investment than SEO

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Gary Arndt of Everything-Everywhere.com. As a blogger, you probably do not have the luxury of having a staff of people to work for you. As such, your time is very valuable and you need to spend it where it will do the most good. We have reached a point in late 2010 where the work required to generate traffic for a normal blog via search engines is much greater than that required to generate an equal amount of traffic via social media.

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Management and Virtual Decentralised Networks: The Linux Project

Buzz Marketing for Technology

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Some Tasty News on Bookmarking

Social Media Marketing

Great news for Delicious users: the service has been acquired from Yahoo! was sunsetting Delicious , the social bookmarking service, surprising many people and leaving them in a tenuous position. Many jumped ship, proclaiming Delicious dead and looking at alternative services like EverNote, Diigo and Pinboard, but others (like me) held fast, waiting for what would come next. Sounds like they'll be mining the tons of great information that Delicious users have been sharing.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #68

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One of the best tweets I saw moments after his death came from Joshua Schachter (the founder of Delicious ). delicious. Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

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Harnessing the Power of Digital Listening with Grace Newfrock

Digimind

LinkedIn, Diageo, AMC Networks, J&J, and many more joined us for a lovely morning of insights and delicious brunch to network and learn about maximizing digital marketing efforts using digital listening and social media. Marketers from leading international and local brands & agencies, including Macy's, PepsiCo.,

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I Ate a Pretzel Last Night

Ari Herzog

They were delicious. That’s right. Paleo me ate a pretzel. Dipped in cheese. I ate some bread, too. I don’t eat bread products often. I tend to avoid sugar and anything that breaks down into sugar. I started the paleo lifestyle in July 2014 and I maintain it about 90% of the time. And those occasions when I eat bad foods? I embrace those 10% meals, chew everything to savor what I’m tasting, and smile. Thanks for reading. Please sign up to receive blog posts by email.

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How to Manage Social Media Profiles

yMarketingMatters

The top bookmarking sites are StumbleUpon , Digg and Delicious. There are many social networking websites for smaller businesses. The most active are Facebook , LinkedIn , Twitter , Google+ , Pinterest , YouTube , Flickr , and SlideShare. This landscape may change in the coming year. But that doesn’t really matter. If you use all of these sites — or just one or two — that’s a ton to manage. Then there is your company blog; it is seemingly a fulltime job.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #332

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Well, it turns out that they're not just a modern version of Delicious , after all. delicious. Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

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Social Media Case Studies: BuzzFeed Tasty’s Social Media Content

Devumi

Read this social media case study to find out the delicious details. You might have seen a lot of short cooking videos shared on social media recently. Many of these come from Tasty, a brand created by BuzzFeed. How did BuzzFeed turn these ordinary cooking videos into a successful brand? What BuzzFeed Tasty offers BuzzFeed […]. The post Social Media Case Studies: BuzzFeed Tasty’s Social Media Content appeared first on Devumi.

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Alternative milk - An analysis on alternative milk social conversation by Pulsar & Audience

Audiense

When analysing the conversation around alternative milk we are able to see people quoting a multitude of reasons for making the switch; everything from the ‘delicious taste’ to how wonderfully ‘healthy’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘cruelty-free’ alternative milk is.

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Measuring your Social Media Impact? Meet your new Best Friend!

Harp Interactive

Backlinks, mentions and results for social news services such as Digg, Reddit, Newsvine & more, Mentions and backlink count from popular social bookmarking services including Delicious, StumbleUpon and Tweetmeme to name a few, Backlinks and search results on Micro-blogging sites, Answer Services like Yahoo Answers and. While on the hunt for meaningful metrics tools, Erwin Hendriks, creator of Social Website Analyzer , brought his insightful resource to my attention.

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3 Reliable Ways to Supercharge Your Stress Management Plan

For Real Social Workers

A recipe gives you a set of steps that guide you to bake or cook a delicious culinary item. Like with many things we do in life, we develop a worthy goal. We go a step farther by thinking about what should come next. Planning is good. Execution is better. What will you do to reach your goal?