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Hats off to Mark Zuckerberg and the entire team at Facebook. They are managing that most impressive feat of innovating at scale. They are also incredibly ambitious in what they want to accomplish. The goal seems nothing short of one identity and one graph to “rule them all." With over 400 million users worldwide and a sign on system that is being widely adopted this ambition doesn’t seem crazy. Especially when you layer on top of this the possibility that soon many of these users might have F...

After at first appearing to be shutting it down, Yahoo is now apparently selling delicious (or possibly giving it away). Google or Microsoft should be first in line to pick it up, but especially Google. Why? Because delicious would help immensely with battling spam and content farms, something many folks have criticized Google for lately, including Jeff Atwood and Marco Arment. That was of course the original idea behind Yahoo buying delicious – at that time Yahoo was still very much in the s...

I was thrilled to see that delicious has found a new home. Not only do I continue to actively use delicious nearly every day but having been involved intimately with its brief life as a separate company I have an ongoing emotional attachment. There are a bunch of things that I would love to see AVOS tackle once they have handled the migration off Yahoo’s infrastructure onto their own. At present I use the bookmarklet, but it would be great to be able to post with an overlay that doesn’t screw...