Yahoo! likes del.icio.us tools
December 9th, 2005Author: DialogueMedia
Well, it’s pretty clear that Yahoo! is going to continue grabbing new media tools that are gaining ground and showing promise, with the company’s latest acquisition being del.icio.us. For those of you not familiar with del.icio.us, it’s a piece of social software that allows people (anyone, really) to post a link to a site, blog post, video, or whatever, and “tag” it – that is to say, place a category or group of categories around it – so that others can then visit after looking through the site or keeping an eye on the tags that interest them. While it might seem a little overwhelming at first to try and figure out, the best thing you can do is just try it out. Click on a few “tags,” and see what you get.
I think some are skeptical of moves like this, as they have concerns that big companies don’t care about why a service got so popular within its user base and are only looking for eyeballs, but except for the Flickr username issue, which raised some eyebrows at first, Yahoo! has done pretty well so far with its acquisitions. Also, Steve Rubel posted an excerpt of a short chat he had with del.icio.us guy Josh Schacter about the announcement.
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