Delicious Founder: I Wish I Had Not Sold to Yahoo

August 12, 2009 at 12:06 am PT

Back in 2005 (a long time in the social media world), Yahoo (YHOO) acquired Delicious, the popular social bookmarking website. Both Yahoo and Delicious founder Joshua Schachter had big plans to change the way we share, remember, and discover information on the Internet. Yahoo even promised “to give Delicious the resources, support, and room it needs to continue growing the service and community.”

So where is it now? Unfortunately, in the case of Delicious, nowhere.

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