Yahoo! Devours del.icio.us

So that's my contribution to the bad headline puns making the rounds this afternoon. …The acquisition proves, among other things, that a bad URL is no obstacle to success today. Seriously, it's yet another social media play at Yahoo! (not sure that it adds any new functionality to what Yahoo! already has). This may be as much about taking del.icio.us off the market (and out as a competitor) as bringing any new technology in-house. (Maybe it's really about getting the brains behind the bookmarks — and, some speculate, the 300,000 users.)

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