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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:

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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!