del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family

We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)

Yahoo! Inc が del.icio.us を買収。del.icio.us を買収したいという企業は多そうだったけど、Yahoo! あたりは特にそうなんじゃないかなあと思いつつ、del.icio.us は資金調達してたし Yahoo! は MyWeb 2.0 とかリリースしてたので、それはないかなと思ってたんですが。買収金額はいくらなのかな。

その MyWeb 2.0 はどうしてくかというと、

Finally, don't be surprised if you see My Web and del.icio.us borrow a few ideas from each other in the future.

だそう。

Jeremy タンお熱を上げるサービスYahoo! Inc に買収されるの法則が確立されそうです。