Yahoo! Buys Del.icio.us

By Chief Gadgeteer, Gizmos for Geeks
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

On Friday, Yahoo purchased del.icio.us, the social bookmarking website. While I’m curious as to how much they paid, I’m more curious as to what Yahoo’s plans for it are in the long-term, as they’ve stated that del.icio.us will continue to run its own website. What I’d like to see is integration of the del.icio.us bookmark tagging and sharing capabilities with the rest of Yahoo’s personalization and data storing services. After all, del.icio.us *only* has 300,000 users. I’m actually surprised; I would have thought that they had many more users due to the usefulness of the site, but I guess that may be just by virtue of me being a geek!

Read the entire article over at GizmosForGeeks.com.