Yahoo! and Del.icio.us Banter
After reading through some of the comments on the del.icio.us blog, I can’t believe what some people say. To me, this has got to be the single coolest thing…to others, it would appear as if their life as they know it, has ended. First of all, here are a few comments I’d like to quote:
this sucks, another great idea bought buy yahoo
that’s really bad news, i’am dissapointed, that just another major turning over the idea of a free web to their personal welfare - very bad - my bookmarks are gone tommorow
You guys sold out… sucks… all good things must get eaten by the machine i guess… oh well… ciao
jesus would slap the shit out of you.
wow. yahoo sucks. goodbye deil.icio.us, nice knowin ya
what a fucking sellout
Get a life!
Seriously. All of you, who are you to flame? Life goes on. This is not the worse thing to happen. The Del.icio.us team is not a sell out. And Yahoo! will improve it to the best of our ability.
Put yourself in their shoes (the founders of del.icio.us). You have a great idea, it becomes popular, Yahoo! makes you an offer… what would you do? Duh. Every single one of these people would have done the same thing.
And those of your ripping Yahoo! to no end…. well, I’ll just say what my company allows me to say:
No Comment
Good night.
Final Side Note
About two months ago I was in a Yahoo! All-hands quarterly get together, with one beer in hand I brought up the idea to a few others “You know…we should buy del.icio.us”. A few laughed, and others just walked away…nobody took me seriously. Ha! I so called it!
December 10th, 2005 at 2:01 am
Besides everything can be ’sell out’ or bought, comments like those are ‘rude’. This is undel.icio.us WEB2.0 tag.
December 10th, 2005 at 9:05 am
The people that complained are upset because yahoo already has a product that does similar things (myweb2.0), and when products overlap, generally one of them stops being developed or only gets maintainance updates.
December 10th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
Like you said if any of those guys were offered what Yahoo! gave them, they would have done the same thing. People get so caught up in this sell-out bullshit. When something works people are more cautious now-a-days to make any big changes because so many people are watching. So I highly doubt there will be any major changes except for better ones going into deil.icio.us.
December 10th, 2005 at 5:04 pm
i think this is great for delicious. many of the current crop of sites that are still independent face the same math - get bought or continue to work for (freelabor - hostingfees). sooner or later they are going to get tired eating ramen and riding the bus. yahoo likely won’t do much more than slap a yahoo logo on the top right and maybe merge usernames, for now. later on, who knows.
i think the bigger question from the other side is: what is the real business value in acquisitions like blo.gs, konfabulator, delicious, etc. these just aren’t the types of products that yahoo’s mainstream audience goes for. hopefully all of these were done on the cheap.
December 10th, 2005 at 7:45 pm
I think it’s cool to watch a company get bought out by a big guy. Yeah, it’s nice to see someone try and go for the big game themselves, but seeing a company like this get bought is great because those are fellow developers who have created someone that was obviously worth the price tag.
Congrats to del.icio.us and Y!