stop the presses, yahoo buys del.icio.us

So Yahoo buys del.icio.us. Everyone has their say concerning the announcement today. It’s on the front page of Digg and Tech.MemeoRandum. Yes, yes…this is big news. Everyone can speculate on the future of del.icio.us. Everyone can guess all the possible ways Yahoo can integrate it with Flickr. People can talk about how much Joshua Schachter made on the deal and if he follow his product to corporate. Everyone’s making their stupid new logos and cleverly creating a new play on the name y.ah.oo!. Brilliant.

But what’s more important to me with the announcement of this life changing event is the traversal of information. For instance, I would like to see the line of repetition. Did Joshua post it on his blog for Michael Arrington to pick up? We know once Michael gets his hands on something, everybody is repeating the same thing he writes about. But if you look at the links above, you will notice that everyoby says the same thing. That gets annoying, and frankly wastes my time.

That’s one of the reasons I love Tech.MemeoRandum. In a way, you can track the path of information. You can see who wrote something original at the start of a ‘discussion’, and all the popular posts that copy appear below it. But, I would still like to see a graphical representation of the path of topical information. Hey, about a mashup? C’mon, give us a beta and you’ll probably make it here.

UPDATE: Out of the top five searches on technorati right now: (1)Delicious (3)delicious yahoo (4)yahoo

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