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I think this needs a little more thought. Think about this: Delicious doesn't really have a successful business model (if any). Yahoo! was about to kill it. No

I think this needs a little more thought. Think about this: Delicious doesn't really have a successful business model (if any). Yahoo! was about to kill it. Now AVOS picks it up. Why would a startup pick it up? There is no way they can make a successful business out of the current state of the site. But Delicious does have one thing: a big set of users and their bookmarks. Information. It is obvious that AVOS was going to have to change the system enough to build a business model to experiment with. These changes are doing exactly that. They very well could be experimenting with the features, to see if their business model (hopefully there is one) works. Now I agree with experimenting, I am EXTREMELY disappointed with the execution of it. There are things that you just have to do right. Experimenting with features is fine, and since I get Delicious from free, I am willing to experiment. But if the site FAILS most of the time. That is unacceptable. I don't care if Eric Ries says "EXPERIMENT", use the "SCIENTIFIC METHOD". This is no excuse for doing a poor job with your tools and your subject of experimentation. Unfortunately for them, and I do feel for them, I don't think the site will recover from this. The trust is gone. At least with me.

seunosewa 15y ago
Here's a risk-free and inexpensive business model: just put Google ads on the website.
- aespinoza 15y ago
  True, with the traffic they have it could have been easy. I don't think that is what they have in mind though. But at this point I have no idea what they are trying to accomplish.
cpeterso 15y ago
Why did Yahoo! buy Delicious in the first place? I assumed Yahoo! would use Delicious' links and tags to cleverly augment their search engine ranking. I realize now that I was giving Yahoo! too much credit.
- joshu 15y ago
  that was the idea!
- aespinoza 15y ago
  The original idea was just that. But Yahoo! doesn't have direction. Even if they had a CEO, the company was just not focused enough on anything. First they said they wanted to be a search engine, then they moved to content and search... Now they don't even have a search engine now, they use bing. They say they are a content and media company, but I don't really use any of their services other than delicious and sometimes the email, and I don't know anybody who does. I think when they bought Delicious, it was a great idea because the company had direction and Delicious made sense. Over the years they lost focus, and have been just wandering around. They don't make sense.

seunosewa 15y ago

Here's a risk-free and inexpensive business model: just put Google ads on the website.

aespinoza 15y ago
True, with the traffic they have it could have been easy. I don't think that is what they have in mind though. But at this point I have no idea what they are trying to accomplish.

cpeterso 15y ago

Why did Yahoo! buy Delicious in the first place? I assumed Yahoo! would use Delicious' links and tags to cleverly augment their search engine ranking. I realize now that I was giving Yahoo! too much credit.

joshu 15y ago
that was the idea!
aespinoza 15y ago
The original idea was just that. But Yahoo! doesn't have direction. Even if they had a CEO, the company was just not focused enough on anything. First they said they wanted to be a search engine, then they moved to content and search... Now they don't even have a search engine now, they use bing. They say they are a content and media company, but I don't really use any of their services other than delicious and sometimes the email, and I don't know anybody who does. I think when they bought Delicious, it was a great idea because the company had direction and Delicious made sense. Over the years they lost focus, and have been just wandering around. They don't make sense.