Delicious
Passed around like a bookmark nobody opens.
CAUSE OF DEATH: Sold five times in eleven years. Each owner loved it slightly less.
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Delicious launched in September 2003 and made bookmarks social. By the end of 2008 it had 5.3 million users. Yahoo bought it in 2005 for a price the founder will only say was "definitely less than $30 million." In 2010 a leak said Yahoo planned to "sunset" it. Yahoo clarified that it was only selling it, the corporate version of "we're not breaking up, we're seeing other people." It went to AVOS, whose redesign drew a reaction recorded as "overwhelmingly negative." Then to Science Inc. Then to Delicious Media. Then to Pinboard, which bought it on June 1, 2017 and made it read-only two weeks later.