Delicious Acquired By AVOS – But Will You Use It?

Yahoo! recently sent out a broadcast mail informing on the happenings with the bookmark service Delicious:

AVOS is a new company started by the founders of the original YouTube service (as in the people who brought it to life before the Google acquisition), so this is absolute confirmation that Delicious is sticking around for a while yet.

Why use Delicious?

While it’s true you can store/sync bookmarks using any number of different services, such as Windows Live Mesh 2011 (for IE), Firefox Sync, Google Chrome’s sync function, Opera Link, Xmarks and so on – Delicious adds a social aspect to bookmarking; they do describe themselves as a social bookmarking service, so that’s their shtick.

Using Delicious is easier than wading through a bunch of "wall" posts containing links by your Facebook friends. Delicious is also far less ‘busy’ in the respect it’s genuinely easier to find stuff that matters to you as searches include both link and tag terms (tags are good, believe me).

It’s also true that Delicious has easy integration into browsers as there are add-ons for IE, Firefox and Chrome at the ready.

Will you use Delicious?

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I have been using Delicious for a long time. When it was offered to me, I authorized the transition. So far, everything works the same, and all the bookmarks I had before are still there, along with tags and short descriptions I added.
I think this will work out, at least I hope so because I frequently share bookmarks that are computer user group related via the url for my bookmarks under the usergroup tag.
aleena
Thanks for sharing nice blog post, i like it so much
Nagar
I pay nearly one thousand rupees every month to my service provider but I can’t download religious songs from You Tube for personal use only. Besides quite often downloading speed remains around 4 to 6 kB. This is sheer treachery.It’s too slow even for opening files. Suggestions please.