sno.oker.ed
Okay, I have to say this, despite my self-imposed hiatus.There is only word for Yahoo's purchase of social bookmarking service del.icio.us: sno.ooker.ed. While Yahoo apparently didn't pay as much as it did for Flickr, it also bought...
- ...technology that is freely available elsewhere as open source
- ...a tiny team
- ...a largely unmonetizable product, and
- ...an installed base of early-adopter geeks utterly unrepresentative of anything approximately a larger market than del.icio.us's current 300,000 supposed users.
As I said, sno.ooker.ed.
[Ed. I was given an assist on the most excellent title of this note by someone who would like to remain anonymous.]
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