Comments on: del.icio.us acquisition shows community valuable

By: Son Nguyen

Son Nguyen — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:47:26 +0000

Current status: “del.icio.us is down for maintenance. we’ll be back in one hour.”

It’s been more than an hour. Guess something goes wrong during the transition?

By: David Henderson

David Henderson — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:28:14 +0000

All I know is now more and more of my personal content and attention data keeps flowing into the Yahoo cloud – first Flickr and now del.icio.us. I can’t see how this is good for the Web 2.0 and/or the AttentionTrust movements….other than financial exit..

Why does Yahoo need to own these services when users could have already easily flowed their Flickr photos and personal links into Yahoo via RSS feeds?

Control that’s why… But I (the user) want to be in control!

By: Two Point Naught

Two Point Naught — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:16:26 +0000

Yahoo acquires del.icio.us

Greg Yardley reports that del.icio.us is to join the Yahoo Family, adding to its stable of Web2.0 products such as Flickr. As Greg writes, hopefully this will mean they get much more stable servers to cope with the demand, but that Yahoo won’t impose…

By: Greg Yardley

Greg Yardley — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:53:54 +0000

Wyclif: Hmmm. I don’t know what to say other than that I’ve either had a different experience or have an inaccurate perception. I can’t speak to Joshua’s speed in fixing bugs, of course, having never submitted a report.

I already give Joshua *plenty* of credit for the eight-figure payday.

By: Wyclif

Wyclif — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 09:31:08 +0000

::: first of all, no more slow and flaky del.icio.us – Yahoo’s server farms should make sure the service is nice and speedy :::

Slow and flaky? I’ve been using del.icio.us for over a year, and nearly every day. I can tell you that I remember it being down for maintenance a total of two times when I wanted to logon, and it was actually pretty fast, especially after the major hardware upgrade they did on their own (pre-acquisition, that is).

Not only that, del.icio.us is the only community I’ve seen in, like, forever, where 5 minutes after submitting an emailed bug report directly to Joshua it was fixed 5 minutes later.

Give a little credit where credit is due (and BTW, I am not an investor, relative, or friend of anybody associated with del.icio.us or Yahoo!).

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:04:01 +0000

Indeed, they are. Amazingly and surprisingly small numbers… Thanks.

By: Greg Yardley

Greg Yardley — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:24:24 +0000

Otis: The 424K saved pages came from the homepage of Yahoo My Web 2.0 – they display it openly.

By: Niki Scevak

Niki Scevak — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:10:15 +0000

I heard $10-15m, which is not verified but if true, sounds like the $1-2m fragmented round didn’t give them that much control over whether the company sells – or there was a diversity of opinon amongst those who invested.

Perhaps the investors decided that kicking in another $8m might be less appealing than taking their money off the table at 4-5x.

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:11:59 +0000

Where do you get the 424K saved pages and quarter that numbers for MyWeb? I'm curious, because they are muuuuch lower than my Simpy numbers. Thanks.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:23:52 +0000

Your numbers sound way high. Om’s numbers sound much more realistic.