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Analysis: Battle Of The Commodity Web Applications

Authored by Scott Karp on April 16, 2008 - 5:56am.

Facebook has had an update feature similar to Twitter for a while. Now Facebook has a feature that lets users add feeds from other web services like Flickr and del.icio.us — just like FriendFeed. From a technology perspective, Twitter and FriendFeed are now reducable to Facebook features. Even if those two apps are currently more robust than their equivalent Facebook features, there’s nothing to stop Facebook from copying them in their entirety.

Yahoo Acquires Bookmark-Sharing Service del.icio.us

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 12, 2005 - 4:01am.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Adding to its social networking offerings, Yahoo said that it has acquired del.icio.us, a New York-based startup that allows users to keep links to Internet content and access them from any computer on the web. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Del.icio.us will remain in charge of its site, which also allows users to share their favorite links with others, as well as search through other people's favorites. The company, which has nine employees, has signed up more than 300,000 users since its inception in 2003. Yahoo also has recently acquired social networking sites Flickr and Upcoming.org.

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