The rumors have been flying for the last few days, and the news just hit the blogosphere: Yahoo has acquired Del.icio.us. I was IMing with Joshua Schachter, the founder of del.icio.us to ask him about the rumors and he confirmed that they had just announced it.
I think this is a tremendous move by Yahoo and shows their dedication to competition.
I remember a conversation I had with a certain VC and a certain business partner back in June about del.icio.us. I said they’d have a large liquidity event and that the network they were creating was incredible. I was roundly criticized and we placed a small gentleman’s bet on my prediction.
No word on the price, so I don’t know if I won the bet or not. But I think I at least won the arguement. 
I just exported my links from Del.icio.us to my desktop and two other on-line services. Then deleted my account….
I was afraid of this trend and I would have paid for the service…
What would you say is “large”? While I’m sure it was a great payout for the founders and seed investors, I doubt it was large enough for the average VC. They aren’t looking for doubles.
Royal, I would imagine you are in the tiny minority.
delicious is officially dead. pc mag did a review on the space recently and gave delicious a rating of 1.5 while yahoos myweb got a 4. personally, i think yahoo did this b/c they knew the die hard users (the blogosphere) would never continue promoting it yahoo owned it giving their myweb pole position in the space…