YouTube founders to revamp Yahoo's Delicious
(CBS) - YouTube's founders have a new project and it is quite delicious.
When Chad Hurley and Steve Chen purchased Delicious in April, many wondered if the two could save the social bookmarking site.
Delicious was launched by Joshua Schacter in September of 2003. The bookmarking site was popular with social media enthusiasts and was later sold to Yahoo! in 2005. While at Yahoo!, Delicious experienced little growth and some had speculated it would be shut down.
By 2010, it was announced that the site would be put up for sale. Hurley and Chen jumped at the chance to purchase Delicious in April of 2011.
In an interview with the New York Times, the two men shed light on the future of Delicious.
"Twitter sees something like 200 million tweets a day, but I bet I can't even read 1,000 a day," Chen told the New York Times. "There's a waterfall of content that you're missing out on."
Their goal is to organize and filter content so that it makes sense and, from what is sounds like, incorporates more social networking tools. With the technological progress that is available today compared with that of 2003, we're excited to see how the site will be revamped.
When asked why they wanted to work on a social bookmarking site, the men replied, "There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet."
For the love of nostalgia, we hope they hit the bull's eye.
