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Yahoo Acquires Del.icio.us Posted by Michael Arrington

I just got off an instant message conversation with Joshua Schachter, the founder of Del.icio.us. I was asking him for any comment on the Yahoo acquisition rumors and he pointed me to the del.icio.us blog.

Yahoo has acquired Del.icio.us:

We’re proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we’ll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We’re excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team – they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We’re also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)

We want to thank everyone who has helped us along the way – our employees, our great investors and advisors, and especially our users. We still want to get your feedback, and we look forward to bringing you new features and more servers in the future.

I look forward to continuing my vision of social and community memory, and taking it to the next level with the del.icio.us community and Yahoo!

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Robert X. Cringely has three articles about how Google is planning to drop containers (like container ship containers) off at all the major peering points on the internet.

“We’re talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid.”

Very interesting nerd reading…

• Google Mart: Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did.

• The Google Cube: Taking over the digital world four ounces at a time.

• The Sweet Spot: By Choosing Where NOT to Compete, Google Can Win the Broadband Game.

Technorati Tags: geekout, Google, robertcringely