The move is planned for July 2011. AVOS plans to maintain the Delicious service with all of its functionality. There may be a time of adjustment as AVOS re-launches Delicious, but the company’s intention is to add new features and grow the service overall. “We spoke with numerous parties interested in acquiring the site, and chose Chad and Steve based on their passion and unique vision for Delicious,” said John Matheny, SVP of Communications and Communities at Yahoo!

To continue using Delicious, Yahoo! will transfer your bookmarks to AVOS. “After a transition period and after your bookmarks are transferred, you will be subject to the AVOS terms of service and privacy policy,” says the notification message. Please visit the Delicious move opt-in page to confirm that Yahoo! may transfer your data.

Yahoo! had bought Delicious at the end of 2005. As the company needed to save money, thoughts came up whether to close the service. Yahoo!, Hurley and Chen did not publish any details about the pricing for the takeover. Speculations about businesses possibly interested in buying Delicious said last week that the service is 1-2 million dollars worth. The Youtube founders had sold the video portal to Google in 2006 for some 1.65 billion dollars.

Google now offers a tool to import bookmarks from Yahoo!’s social bookmarking service Delicious. This way, you can import your contents to Google Bookmarks. The tool also copies your tags and labels. To use the bookmarks import tool, you have to sign in with either your Yahoo! ID account or your old Delicious login.

In late 2010, Yahoo! announced that they want to close several projects. There were rumors that Delicious might be one of them. Few days later, the Delicious operators stated that they don’t want to close down Delicious.

We’re actively thinking about the future of Delicious and we believe there is a home outside the company that would make more sense for the service and our users. We’re in the process of exploring a variety of options and talking to companies right now. And we’ll share our plans with you as soon as we can.

Come attivare la sincronizzazione dei segnalibri in Google Chrome

1. Hai bisogno di Google Chrome 4 Beta o maggiore. Se non ce l’hai, passa al canale Dev.
2. Avvia Chrome con la linea di comando -enable-sync . (tramite click destro sull’icona di Chrome->Proprietà->Destinazione)
3. Clicca su Strumenti, Sync my bookmarks…
4. Accedi al tuo account Google—Fatto!

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