Well, this explains a lot – first, a serious congratulations to Joshua, and kudos to Yahoo for picking up del.icio.us. (and thanks to Les Orchard for the heads up)
I’ve been wondering about the business model for del.icio.us since before I started using it – wondering how it was going to be paid for. It’s a free service, with no ads. Soaking up ungodly amounts of resources and bandwidth. Now that it’s Yet Another Yahoo Family Member, it should benefit from Yahoo’s infrastructure, and lose the imperative to “monetize” – since it’s part of the value-add for Yahoo.
Here’s hoping the first thing the Yahoo server fairies do is throw some über high-end hardware at the service to help alleviate the occasional performance issues…
Well, this explains a lot – first, a serious congratulations to Joshua, and kudos to Yahoo for picking up del.icio.us. (and thanks to Les Orchard for the heads up)
I’ve been wondering about the business model for del.icio.us since before I started using it – wondering how it was going to be paid for. It’s a free service, with no ads. Soaking up ungodly amounts of resources and bandwidth. Now that it’s Yet Another Yahoo Family Member, it should benefit from Yahoo’s infrastructure, and lose the imperative to “monetize” – since it’s part of the value-add for Yahoo.
Here’s hoping the first thing the Yahoo server fairies do is throw some über high-end hardware at the service to help alleviate the occasional performance issues…
Related
[…] Another recent acquisition by Yahoo also happened this weekend, and I heard about it first at D’Arcy Norman’s blog, and the del.icio.us blog: the purchase of Del.icio.us, which I’ve raved about elsewhere. I wonder if being onto two fantastic Web sites prior to purchase by someone big makes me extra cool… […]
Daily Update — December 12, 2005
Here’s our take on news that matters for Monday, December 12. Today’s theme is the media future and here are some links to related news items.
Business Week Online has come out with it’s latest next-generation technology report and there is som…
Open source Projects to release by orion
I now have at least a cople of open source projects that I would like to release into the wild. However, while I dont mind hosting landing pages for the basics or information and tracking here, I need