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YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious

“Today, we’re pleased to announce that Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. As creators of the largest online video platform, they have firsthand experience enabling millions of users to share their experiences with the world. They are committed to running and improving Delicious going forward.”

It’s early days yet, so no-one outside Yahoo and the YouTube guys knows exactly what’s going to happen, but I think the signs for Delicious are largely positive.

In the short term, they are asking users with Delicious accounts linked to their Yahoo! ID to convert them back to normal Delicious.com accounts. Of course Yummy has always supported this type of authentication. Indeed, since 2.6 access in this way is actually both quicker and more reliable than using a Yahoo! ID protected account.

I immediately converted my account over to see what happens. And the short answer, from the Yummy side, is nothing. Everything continues to work as normal.

At some point it will probably require you to log in again. There’s a small bug here. When you log out and back into the same account again, Yummy will show no bookmarks. Don’t worry, your bookmarks are still there. Just add a new bookmark or (from the Delicious.com website) edit one of your existing links and Yummy will synchronise correctly. This will be fixed in the next version.

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Announcing: Yummy for iPod shuffle

I’m very pleased to announce a new addition to the Yummy family: Yummy for iPod shuffle. It has most of the features you know and love from the iPhone and iPad versions but it comes with a completely new and innovative user interface, designed from the ground up to fully utilise the unique display technology of Apple’s smallest portable music player.

I could write pages about the painstaking research that went into the interface, the countless hours in usability labs and the months of engineering effort but what you really want to know it what it looks like and how it works. As they say, a picture speaks a thousand words.

(Image Courtesy of Apple)

When we first started discussing the idea, people said that it was impossible to run sophisticated applications on such a small device. Some doubted that it would be useable. Some even doubted that is was possible to connect to the Internet on hardware without a radio or ethernet port.

With the immediate availability of Yummy for iPod shuffle we think that those doubts have been thoroughly quashed. You can download it for a promotional price of 99¢ from the little known App Store for iPod shuffle. We hope you like it.