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title: "Yahoo buys del.icio.us – keep it free!"
date: 2005-12-09
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# Yahoo buys del.icio.us – keep it free!

As [TechCrunch reported](https://web.archive.org/web/20051215080356/http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/09/yahoo-acquires-delicious/), Joshua Schachter has [announced the sale](https://web.archive.org/web/20051215080356/http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2005/12/yahoo.html) of Del.icio.us to (who else) Yahoo. Personally I’m thrilled Yahoo got del.icio.us, but I’m hoping they don’t make it into a **walled garden** like they did with the My Web 2.0 product. Currently a user can export their data from del.icio.us, but they can’t do that from My Web 2.0. I’ve written many times [about this issue](https://web.archive.org/web/20051215080356/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_weekly_w_28.php) – I’ve even emailed My Web 2.0 senior managers, urging them to open it up. But still it remains a closed property… not very Web 2.0 🙁 So I hope Yahoo doesn’t ruin a good thing and close off del.icio.us. I’m sure they won’t. More details [on my ZDNet blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20051215080356/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=76).

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_buys_deli.php))*