Wow, look - something else is happening on the blogosphere, people: Yahoo! has just bought del.icio.us.
More on the Yahoo! Blog.
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Ben, I just wanted to say thank you. You and Mena have been a catalyst for a bunch of very productive conversations that have helped a lot of us make more meaning about how we communicate. But I suspect it has all been at a cost to you two.
I have no idea how this “thing” has made you feel. I know I would not have enjoyed the kind of attention the dust up created. But you two created value. Thus the thank you.
And I personally don’t think you are the blogosphere’s asshole, or if you are, you seem to be a quite lovable one. But alas, I don’t think you are in the Zlist club anymore. We’ll miss you there in the dust under that long tail….
And yeah, it is pretty damned interesting about del.icio.us -
Don’t try to change the subject, Ben. 
I’m a big fan of the smooth del.icio.us interface, and I hope that this takeover/ partnership doesn’t mean that we’re going to be subject to banner ads and subscription purchases.
How integrated is the relationship? How much (if at all) is delicious going to change?
I expect the changes will be similar to Flickr - just the Yahoo! logo added to the bottom of pages and the introduction of the Yahoo! sign-in service for the del.icio.us account.
The big worry is what happens next - they’ve got Flickr in their grubby mits and now del.icio.us will they just suck them into the Yahoo! machine instead of leaving them as a seperate service.
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