del.icio.us (original) was very awesome and revolutionary (these are my thoughts about it in 2007 http://www.michaelhoover.org/mike/2007/08/delicious-is-th.ht...). the subsequent idiotic decisions by buyers yahoo, avos et al were not only abject incompetence, but typical for most acquisitions - both then and now. the original site didn't fail in the least; however, every iteration thereafter were just attempts to create "affiliate marketing" and seo link farms of spammy garbage. i'm still pissed that the youtube clowns at avos deleted my account along with years of curated links. yeah i have multiple exports - thx to joshua :) - but annoying nonetheless.