Martin Gordon's Blog

According to Joshua himself, Yahoo is now the proud owner of his social bookmarking site, del.icio.us. Yahoo is really getting serious in their Web 2.0 march by adding del.icio.us to their stable and finally reuniting del.icio.us with its long lost tagging half-brother, Flickr.

So with all these small startups popping up and some even receiving VC funding, it may seem at first like we're going through another bubble. Taking it a step further, however, we see that these companies aren't IPOing every day of the week. Investors have become a lot more cautious about what they throw money at. As a result, I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of these types of deals going through. What you'll find is that these Web 1.0 companies that have already survived the bubble will snap up the small Web 2.0 houses. Not only do big guys have more at stake, thereby being more cautious in their acquisitions, they are on much stabler footing and can afford to take a loss if things don't pan out.

This is how we're going to find out who the winners are and who the losers are in this round of startups. The winners will get acquired by the big boys who have already survived a bubble and the losers will be left out in the cold.

Just wanted to share this great news. Congrats to Josh and everyone else at del.icio.us!

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