<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Not to worry, Yahoo owns Flickr too but has learned to keep such acquisitions relatively autonomous. As a user you are unlikely to notice any difference. There seems to be a new trend for companies such as Yahoo and Google to buy startups, preferably before VC are involved. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- samantha</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:06 PM, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">As a <A href="http://del.icio.us/">del.icio.us</A> user (id <A href="http://del.icio.us/pgptag">pgptag</A>) I have found very interesting today's news of the acquisition of <A href="http://del.icio.us">del.icio.us</A> by Yahoo. I am happy to see that a good idea and a lot of hard work to make it happen has been rewarded, and I am sure Yahoo has enough resources to keep <A href="http://del.icio.us">del.icio.us</A> alive, improve it, and scale it to support many more users. At the same time, I am worried to see an independent and innovative provider swallowed by one of the Big Three.<BR><A href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69802,00.html?tw=rss.TOP"> Wired News</A>: "In its latest acquisition of a social networking service, internet powerhouse Yahoo on Friday chomped down on <A href="http://del.icio.us">del.icio.us</A>, a startup that enables people to more easily compile and share their favorite content on the web". See also the <A href="http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2005/12/yahoo.html#comments">del.icio.us blog entry</A> with many comments from users.<BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>