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Late last night I received an email from Yahoo! Since I never get emails from Yahoo!, I was curious to see what it was about. To my surprise, it was an announcement that Delicious was sold to AVOS, the creators of YouTube. The best part is that AVOS is keeping the services alive and will be revamping the service very soon.
To keep using Delicious you must agree to allow Yahoo! to transfer your bookmarks, user accounts, and profile to AVOS.
How To Transfer Delicious Bookmarks To AVOS?
In order to keep using MUST move your bookmarks to AVOS. If you do not, you will lose your account and all your saved bookmarks. So unless you want to start over, then agree to Yahoo! to move your accounts to AVOS. To move your account is simple. All you have to is log into your delicious account and you will see a “Transfer Your Bookmarks” form. Fill this form out. All you have to do is enter in your first name, last name, and your email address. Once you do that, then Delicious will transfer your account information over to the old way of logging into the system. They will assign you a user name (based on your account user name) and then you will be asked to create a password.
Once, you have completed this process, then start using the user name and password that was assigned to you.
Here is a copy of the email from Yahoo!
Dear Delicious User,
Yahoo! is excited to announce that Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. As creators of the largest online video platform, Hurley and Chen have firsthand expertise enabling millions of consumers to share their experiences with the world. Delicious will become part of their new Internet company, AVOS.
To continue using Delicious, you must agree to let Yahoo! 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.Reasons to let Yahoo! transfer your bookmarks
- Continue uninterrupted use of Delicious.
- Keep your Delicious account and all your bookmarks.
- Enjoy the same look and feel of Delicious today plus future product innovations.
What happens if you do not transfer your bookmarks
- Delicious in its current form will be available until approximately July 2011.
- After that, you will no longer be able to use your existing Delicious account and will not have
access to your existing bookmarks or account information.
About AVOS
AVOS is a new Internet company founded by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen who, in 2005, founded YouTube, the world’s largest online video platform. Before YouTube, Hurley and Chen were early employees at PayPal, a leading online payment service that is now part of eBay. Delicious will become a part of AVOS, based in San Mateo, California.
Learn more about moving your bookmarks.
Thank you for using Delicious. Yahoo! has appreciated having you with us, and we are pleased to be able to transfer Delicious to an incredible new owner — you’re in good hands.
The Yahoo! Delicious Team
Final Thoughts
Most have heard of the rumors that Delicious was going to be shut down. Because of that, I wrote an article about alternatives to Delicious. The article has a lot of services to choose from, all of them are great, but none of them are as popular as Delicious. So with the purchase of Delicious by EVOS, I look forward to seeing how this new venture for them will work out and what they have in store for Delicious. Hopefully they will add more features and have a more user-friendly services like some of the alternative bookmarking services have. So if you haven’t got an account, head over there and create an account, and start bookmarking. The service is not dead, and soon will be revamped!
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Just in time, loged in and authorized Yahoo to move to AVOS. Great.. I was kind of worried what might happen with Delicious after Yahoo’s decision on MyBlogLog. Can’t wait to see the revamp that AVOS will make. Thanks for the heads up, did not see that email 🙂
I was worried to. Even though there are plenty of good services out there. Delicious still has the largest community. Hopefully AVOS will give us some new features real soon.
I wonder to see Yahoo selling each of its services one after another. It appears only that email remains with Yahoo after some time?
Thanks for the post. You’ve pointed right thing on right time. Its time to switch the delicious bookmarks.
I suspect the Delicious will remain what it was. Excited to look its new features after the ownership is changed.
BTW, yahoo changed its Email and I like that GREEN in new Yahoo!
I’m out for good. Let’s not forget what happened to Youtube accounts recently, where they were forced to be linked to a Google account. And now this from the owners that own both Youtube and Delicious? No thanks. I have a sneaking suspicion that all bookmarks will be mined for Google’s purposes. Awesome service while it lasted, but my days with Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelicious are too well-done. Now to spend an hour or two transferring my bookies elsewhere…
And by “hour” or two I actually mean “second” or two, as there is a convenient way to export the bookies for future purposes! Huzzah!