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Great Tastes That Go Great Together — I've been a big fan of del.icio.us, the social bookmarking service Joshua Schachter created, for quite a while now. So much so that when Dave Taylor recently asked for "experts" to help explain What's so cool about del.icio.us?, I was glad to masquerade as an expert.
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down the avenue, Charlene Li's Blog, Things That, The Browster Blog, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, tecosystems, The Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog, michael parekh on IT, Joseph Scott's Blog, Conversion Rater, Flashpoint, IP Democracy, loose wire, Alec Saunders .LOG, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, PaidContent.org, Weblogsky, PodTech Comments …, Solution Watch, Micro Persuasion, Marketing Pilgrim, The Social Software Weblog, SiliconBeat, Geeking with Greg, Clickety Clack and Zoli's Blog
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Brad Burnham / Union Square Ventures:
A Delicious Eight Months — On April 14th, we closed an investment in Delicious. We wrote about our initial investment here. — Eight months later, Delicious has been sold to Yahoo!. The news is on the Delicious blog. — We are thrilled to see Joshua Schachter …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo.icio.us? - Yahoo Acquires Del.icio.us — I just got off an instant message conversation with Joshua Schachter, the founder of Del.icio.us. I was asking him for any comment on the Yahoo acquisition rumors and he pointed me to the del.icio.us blog. — Yahoo has acquired Del.icio.us:
Om Malik on Broadband:
Yahoo! buys del.icio.us — Yahoo continues with its Web 2.0 makeover. The company snapped up the bookmarking service del.icio.us today, according to a post by founder Joshua Schachter on his website. "We look forward to bringing you new features and more servers in the future," he writes.
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Tag It: Acqusition, Yahoo Acquires del.icio.us — Even developing their own MyWeb 2.0 (tag, save, share service) and the Yahoo 360 set of services, Yahoo still wants more assets in the community building, tagging, and folksonomy arena. Accordingly, we've learned that del.icio.us has now been acquired by Yahoo.
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Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, B.L. Ochman's weblog, The Kelsey Group and Guardian Unlimited
Jeff Clavier / Software Only:
Social Media Consolidation Act 8: Yahoo takes out del.icio.us — First, I apologize for my complete silence over the past week or so, but I have been completely swamped by a number of things - that I can't talk about yet, and I have just returned from Paris where I spoke at the excellent Les Blogs 2.0 organized by my buddy Loic.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Yahoo! buys del.icio.us — Yahoo! has bought social bookmarking site del.icio.us for an undisclosed amount. Joshua Schachter posted an announcement to the del.icio.us blog and mentions Yahoo!'s ability to help del.icio.us scale and keep pace with it's growing user base and site usage.
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business2blog, Full Circle Online …, cubicgarden.com, » InsideGoogle and Northern Telecom
The Doc Searls Weblog:
Burp! — Yahoo eats del.icio.us. — There's an 'icky' in 'sticky'. — Just a thought. — It's alive! — Syndication and the Live Web Economy is my latest in Linux Journal. (And just under the wire for the Syndicate conference that starts Monday.) One point: … And another:
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:ANOTHER UPDATE: YAHOO ACQUIRES DEL.ICIO.US
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John Cook's Venture Blog
Mark Ward / BBC:
Sony BMG repents over CD debacle — Technology correspondent, BBC News website — Sony BMG is rethinking its anti-piracy policy following weeks of criticism over the copy protection used on CDs. — The head of Sony BMG's global digital business, Thomas Hesse, told the BBC that the company was "re-evaluating" its current methods.
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mobile jones:
The Carnival of the Mobilists Volume1 Issue8 — Presenting: The Carnvial of the Mobilists. This week's CoM features some outstanding observations, analysis and commentary across a range of important topics on mobility. I'm excited by the number of contributions and quality of articles in this week's CoM.
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Comcast Seeks Edge In Phone Service — Comcast Corp. next week plans to roll out Internet phone service in Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland to try to steal customers from Verizon Communications Inc. — U.S. cable and phone companies are increasingly competing directly by trying …
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IP Democracy
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Google sucks, there I said it — I wonder if it's Google or me, but I can't seem to get behind anything they do these days. The latest abomination is "web clips" inside Gmail. Everything about it is irritating. — First, why can't they call it RSS. That's what it's called. Not good enough for Google.
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Things That, Om Malik on Broadband, Guardian Unlimited, The Unofficial Google Weblog, Lifehacker, TechBlog and IP Democracy
Washington Post:
Smartbomb — The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution — After immersing themselves in the video game culture by attending gaming conventions, interviewing its inventors and entrepreneurs, along with researching the history of the industry and its influence …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Power could cost more than servers, Google warns — update A Google engineer has warned that if the performance per watt of today's computers doesn't improve, the electrical costs of running them could end up far greater than the initial hardware price tag.
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Alice Hill's Real Tech News
