YouTube Founders Acquire Tap11

Following their acquisition of Delicious, YouTube founders – Steve Chen and Chad Hurley – purchased a real-time business intelligence platform called Tap11. It is an analytics platform that focuses on Twitter and Facebook, though it can be linked to other social media and publishing accounts. Both Tap11 and Delicious will be part of Chad Hurley and Steve Chen’s AVOS.

By having a robust reporting, analytics platform and access to millions of bookmarks, AVOS is up to something.

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YouTube’s Chad Hurley and Steve Chen Acquires Delicious

Last fall, a news leaked that Yahoo will be sun setting its bookmarking service provider – Delicious. However, Yahoo later clarified that they will sell, and not terminate, the said bookmarking site. And today, Delicious’ buyers now have a name: Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

The founder of YouTube acquires Delicious for an undisclosed sum, and they will be founding a new company named AVOS. Delicious assures their users in its recent blog post that the transition from Delicious to AVOS will be seamless, and that the service will continue. The shift is now underway and Delicious will remain in its current form until July. Users can opt in to transfer their bookmarks to AVOS, or choose to download their data and look for an alternative.

There are no concrete details yet as to what will happen to Delicious once at AVOS, but the bookmarking site said that Chad Hurley and Steve Chen’s startup will “continue the service that users have come to know and love and by working with the community, make the site even easier and more fun to save, share and discover the web’s ‘tastiest’ content.”

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