I went to SXSW in 2006. That was the year when Yahoo tried to buy their way into the Web 2.0™ set by buying Flickr, Upcoming, and http://Del.icio.us .
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I went to the Yahoo party (with
@bookis and@eliduke). I got the red and black baseball tshirt. http://archive.upcoming.org/event/flickr-upcoming.org-and-del.icio.us-in-the-company-of-yahoo-59440 …pic.twitter.com/rVZpl2aAca
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We all had the highest of hopes that Yahoo would do the right thing with these sites, but of course Yahoo did just the opposite.
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But somehow, after twists and turns: -
@waxpancake owns@upcomingorg again -@Pinboard owns@delicious -@SmugMug owns@Flickr Yahoo managed to completely miss their shot with these sites, but somehow still got them to a good home. Which is surprising.1 reply 11 retweets 22 likesShow this thread
And the entire world owns Yahoo's user database.
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