The bookmark service Pinboard acquired a pioneer in this area, the resource Delicious. Del site. Icio. Us, for which $ 35 thousand was paid. , Will continue to work, but since June 15, 2017. Only in read mode. Users are encouraged to migrate to a paid but cheap Pinboard.

Pinboard buys Delicious.

Pinboard has purchased its competitor Delicious. For users of the Pinboard nothing will change, the company says, but Delicious users will have to look for another place to save the bookmarks. The site of the service will continue to work, but from June 15 it will be read-only, new bookmarks will not be saved, just like using the API. The final fate of the site will be announced later. As the founder of Pinboard, Maciej Ceglowski, told The Next Web, he paid for the site del. Icio. Us $ 35 thousand.

Users of Delicious will be given the opportunity to migrate with all bookmarks to the Pinboard account, which costs $ 11 per year. Those users who wish to place bookmarks elsewhere will be able to export their data as soon as export links are set up that stopped working several months ago for technical reasons, the company said.. The service does not hurry users with export or migration - all this can be done after June 15.

Sales history Delicious.

This is not the first sale of Delicious, the oldest on the Internet resource to save bookmarks. Founded in 2003. Joshua Schachter (Joshua Schachter) and Peter Gadekov (Peter Gadjokov), the service received investment from Union Square Ventures in 2005. , And in the same year was bought by Yahoo for the amount of about $ 15-30 million. Under the guidance of Yahoo service was still popular - by the end of 2008. It had 5.3 million users and more than 180 million bookmarks - but in general new owners admitted that they contribute to its decline.

In December 2010. Yahoo announced its intention to sell the resource, in 2011. His new owner was the company AVOS Systems, which radically changed the design of the site, and then resold it Science in 2014. Science in its turn sold the service Delicious Media in January 2016 g.

Success story Pinboard.

The bookmark service for Pinboard was launched by Ceglovski in July 2009. Unlike the free Delicious, it was originally paid - charged about $ 3 for creating an account. The fee increased by a fraction of a cent with the addition of each new user, that is, in itself was an indicator of the popularity of the resource. This was done in order to regulate the growth of the site, while having enough funds for its development, and also to spam the spammers.

Within a few months the resource overcame the threshold of 1.2 thousand users, after which Ceglovski introduced a premium paid subscription worth $ 25 per year with the ability to archive bookmarks. A sharp influx of users on the Pinboard was recorded in December 2010. , When it became known that Yahoo can sell Delicious. Many reacted to this by joining the Pinboard, increasing its audience to 16 thousand. Users. Connection fee jumped to $ 9. By October 2011. Pinboard had 25 thousand. Registered users, but still one man still managed the site. A new influx of users on the Pinboard appeared in the fall of 2011. In connection with the next sale of Delicious, as AVOS Systems restarted the service it acquired, making personalization of bookmarks less in-depth.

Tseglowski admits that his site is similar to the earlier versions of Delicious.

According to him, he decided to create his own bookmarking service after another change in the design of Delicious, when from there disappeared attractive functions for him. In December 2012. Tseglowski launched the Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud project, which offered $ 37 and the promotion of six start-ups with low prices. The meaning of the action was to attract investors' attention to such companies. In 2015 year. On the Pinboard for the first time there was a mandatory annual fee, amounting to $ 11 per year. At the same time, there is no advertising on the site.