Delicious has been bought

[murklins]

Yahoo! has sold Delicious to AVOS, a new company started by the founders of YouTube. You can read about it on the Delicious blog and in the AVOS press release. You might also want to hit up the Transition FAQ for more details.

Looks like they want people to opt-in to an agreement that lets them transfer your bookmarks, etc. to AVOS when the time

Comments

[vickyblueeyez]

I wrote about it too (http://vickyblueeyez.livejournal.com/85423.html) and from their TOS, idk about them. They sound controlling and strict. I backed up my delicious bookmarks on www.diigo.com a while back when I first heard about delicious closing so I'm ok to a point.

[murklins]

Yeah, the TOS is a big issue. Even under Yahoo, Delicious was very hands off about user content, but the AVOS terms are vastly more restrictive.

[schesinger]

Their user restrictions are a bit excessive, like restricting content that "infringes/violates a third party's privacy" or "would give rise to.. civil liability" or "is misleading or deceptive" or "is offensive" or "is violent" or "promotes illegal substances." I don't think they're any more likely to prevent links to nc17 fic than they are to prevent links to gossip magazines or articles on how to make a hackintosh or jailbreak your iphone or smoke drugs or make fun of the president.

i'm pretty excited, maybe we'll finally see some good changes and development in delicious and we can finally get the subtract operator on sets or a richer API. yay.

[murklins]

A richer API would be great!

[briar_pipe]

Coming in late, but this is an excellent point. There is a lot of content on Delicious that violates AVOS's TOS in some way - a pretty staggering amount, actually. I wonder if they will bother trying to delete it all and cut into their potential paying subscriber base, or if they will only delete accounts or links that are brought to their attention.

Personally, I think they're better off adopting an ISP/pipeline stance and disclaiming any responsibility for anything, but that's where the differences between a hosting site and a link site really become clear. Hopefully these guys will figure that out.