Yahoo Buys and Then Breaks del.icio.us
Posted by Mike Bijon December 15, 2005
Anyone remember that Yahoo bought del.icio.us this week?
Well, if you also haven’t forgotten that Yahoo bought blo.gs in mid-June this year and that Yahoo promptly “broke” the ability to add new links to blo.gs favorites for almost 6 months - then the current del.icio.us one hour maintenance outage (or see image below) won’t strike you as surprising. Unless my internet connection is stuck in a hole and my DNS isn’t updating right, the current del.icio.us outage started around 6pm PST and is still going 6 hours later:
Is Yahoo doing maintenance, rebuilding these sites from scratch, or trying to completely devalue their new investments?
Update: Sometime in the past 6 hours (it’s 6am PST) del.icio.us has been brought back online. I haven’t noticed any obvious changes. Has anyone else? Maybe the greatly extended blo.gs outage is actually due to major architectural or security issues…
Mike Bijon: I work as senior technology manager and technologist for 
