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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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Charlene Li's Blog, Things That, down the avenue, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, The Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog, tecosystems, michael parekh on IT, Joseph Scott's Blog, Conversion Rater, Flashpoint, IP Democracy, loose wire, Alec Saunders .LOG, The Social Software Weblog, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Weblogsky, PaidContent.org, PodTech Comments …, Solution Watch, Marketing Pilgrim, Micro Persuasion, Geeking with Greg, Clickety Clack, SiliconBeat and Zoli's Blog
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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 …

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:

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.

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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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.

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.

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:

Yahoo acquires del.icio.us - just don't make it a walled garden, like My Web 2.0!

ANOTHER UPDATE: YAHOO ACQUIRES DEL.ICIO.US
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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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Buying eyeballs — Thanks to a link from John Battelle, I came across a fascinating little article about an appearance by Bill Gates on Indian television earlier this week. Noting that Google's "business model is based on advertisements from which they make a lot of money" and that …
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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.

firefox 1.5 versus internet explorer 6 — I've seen a number of articles comparing the currently available Firefox 1.5 with the still not available and probably not released for some time Internet Explorer 7. What's wrong with this picture? Firefox 1.5 should be compared against the competition …

NBA to create huge digital archive — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—If you're a rabid basketball fan who's wished you could get your hands on video of that one memorable shot by Michael Jordan from the Chicago Bulls play-off game you went to in 1989, the National Basketball Association may soon be able to help you out.

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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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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