Criticizing your famous deep-pocketed competitors is usually just a way to get attention. But for Trunk.ly, a self-promoting blog post critique of the YouTube co-founders’ recent revamp of Delicious turned out to be pretty lucrative. That’s because AVOS todayannounced it is buying Trunk.ly “to accelerate link-saving and searching capabilities in Delicious,” said AVOS CEO Chad Hurley. (via AVOS Buys Competitor Trunk.ly to Improve New Delicious - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD)
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Criticizing your famous deep-pocketed competitors is usually just a way to get attention. But for Trunk.ly, a self-promoting blog post critique of the YouTube co-founders’ recent revamp of Delicious turned out to be pretty lucrative.

That’s because AVOS todayannounced it is buying Trunk.ly “to accelerate link-saving and searching capabilities in Delicious,” said AVOS CEO Chad Hurley. (via AVOS Buys Competitor Trunk.ly to Improve New Delicious - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD)

Source: allthingsd.com