Back in May, the social bookmarking site Delicious was purchased from Yahoo! by AVOS (a company led by the founders of YouTube) and innovative features were promised for the community. Yesterday, the newest version of Delicious launched, with quite a new look: The new look Delicious features many enhancements, including stacked bookmarks (called "stacks") and a much more visually rich appearance for users. Introduction Of "Stacks" The biggest change released is the stacks functionality that allows users to group links into easy to consume "stacks." Previously, tagging was the only for [...]

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Delicious, the popular social bookmarking site that Yahoo wanted to get rid of, has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Could it be a first step for the duo to jump into the search space? From the press release put out by AVOS, the company run by the duo (note, you might not get to the release, as the AVOS site appears to have crashed): Delicious will become part of AVOS, a new Internet company.... Going back to their roots, Hurley and Chen located Delicious in downtown San Mateo, California, blocks away from where they started YouTube. They’re aggr [...]

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Yesterday, like many news outlets, we saw a leaked slide that suggested that Yahoo might be closing Delicious. We didn't publish until we had a statement from Yahoo. That statement clarified nothing. So it's galling to have Yahoo today acting like the press got it all wrong. Yahoo "Disappointed" Over "Little Context" On the Delicious Blog today, Yahoo writes: Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We’re genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users.... We can only imagine how upsetting the news cove [...]

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Responding to the frenzy that happened yesterday after news spread that Delicious.com was likely to be shut down, Yahoo says the service may live on, after all. In a post today on the Delicious.com blog, the company emphatically says Delicious isn't closing. Is Delicious being shut down? And should I be worried about my data? - No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive. What is Yaho [...]

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It looks like your (and my) personal search engine of interesting web pages is about to go away. Yahoo hasn't formally confirmed, but all signs point to the impending demise of delicious.com. What are we going to do with all of our bookmarks? There are several alternatives available and, if you're like me, you're going to have to test some of them out until you find the one that best fits how you like to save bookmarks and later search for them. You'll also want to export your existing delicious.com bookmarks and, if possible, import them into the new service you choose. Instructions on [...]

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