Thursday, April 28, 2011

YouTube Founders Purchase Up Delicious

The founders of video-sharing site YouTube have paid for bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo.

Chad Hurley and Steve Chen will use Delicious as a key segment of their next net project called Avos.

The startup is think to be formed around collection that help people obtain to grips with the immeasurable amount of data generated by web sites and services.

How ample the span paid to pick up Delicious has not been revealed.

Delicious describes itself as a amicable bookmarking network in that members dwindle and label sites, articles and media they find interesting. These can then be common with other Delicious users.

Its name derives from its request to find the "tastiest" bookmarks on the web.

Delicious was acquired in 2005 by Yahoo and in late 2010 the web hulk motionless to sell it off or shut it down if no customer came forward.

Now Mr Hurley and Mr Chen have acquired Delicious to form segment of the technology underpinning their new definite Avos.

Details about Avos and what it will do are scant. A matter from Chad Hurley subsequent to the Delicious merger mentioned the company will target to help people succeed the data purgation from the web services they use.

"We see a extensive chance to facilitate the way users save and share calm they learn wherever on the web," Mr Hurley said.

The span sole YouTube to Google in 2006 for $1.76bn (1.06bn). Steve Chen left YouTube in 2008 and Mr Hurley stop work working for Google in late 2010.

Delicious will go on in its stream form until July 2011. Users are being asked to login to the service and consent to let Yahoo pierce their account to the new owners.

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