Delicious
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Delicious (del.icio.us) was a pioneering social bookmarking website founded in 2003. Users saved, tagged and shared web bookmarks, and its tagging system influenced later services like Flickr, Twitter and Pinterest. Yahoo bought it in 2005 for a reported $15 to $30 million, then largely neglected it; over the years it changed hands five times, passing to AVOS Systems in 2011, Science Inc in 2014 and Delicious Media in 2016.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Delicious launched as del.icio.us, pioneering social bookmarking with a tagging system that shaped later social web services.
- Sold to Yahoo
Yahoo acquired Delicious for a reported $15 to $30 million; the site was subsequently mismanaged and declined.
- Ownership changes
Delicious changed hands repeatedly: AVOS Systems in 2011, Science Inc in 2014, and Delicious Media in 2016.
- Acquired by Pinboard
Rival bookmarking service Pinboard, founded by Maciej Ceglowski, acquired Delicious for $35,000 and put the site into read-only mode on June 15, 2017, offering users migration or data export.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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