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Yahoo: Delicious not to be closed but up for sale
Yahoo Cooking Up a Delicious Demise?
Useful CSS Tip for Beginners – Working of ul li

Yahoo: Delicious not to be closed but up for sale

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 12:52 PM PST

There has been many talks going on about Delicious being removed or closed by Yahoo!. It has just been disclosed by Yahoo! that they are selling Delicious to some other company but not closing it down.

In their blog they had mentioned that Yahoo will not shut down Delicious they just want a new home for it. That means they are going to sell it. According to the blog they said

Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We're genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can't answer each of your questions individually, we wanted to discuss what we can at this stage and we promise to keep you posted as future plans get finalized.

Things they made clear:

Delicious is not going to be closed.
No need to remove your book marks from there.
Delicious is being sold to some other company.

Things they did not make clear:

Who is going to buy Delicious?
Why did they take more than 24 hours to make it clear?

If you know any answer to these questions feel free to share them with me through the comments below. Who will own Delicious ,next?

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Yahoo Cooking Up a Delicious Demise?

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:09 AM PST

If we have to believe the modern day grapevine – Twitter – it seems like an end to Yahoo’s popular social bookmarking site, Delicious. Seems like soon bookmarking is not going to be oh so tasty.

The Tweet that started it all:

The news spread like wildfire after being triggered by one little tweet by Eric Marcoullier:

The Leaked Yahoo! Screenshot:

Eric Marcoullier, associated with Yahoo as the founder of MyBlogLog, shared a screenshot of Yahoo Inc’s webcast declaring the end of several product lines including MyBlogLog, AltaVista, Yahoo! Picks, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Buzz and Delicious. The leak obviously spurred a series of reactions – infuriating and flattering. The screenshot confirms the plans of the company towards calling quits with Delicious.

The scoop:

Delicious is a popular social bookmarking site started in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.

The spotlight center focus dawned on Yahoo! after the series of layoffs couple of days back. About 650 to 700 employees are rumored to have lost their jobs, primarily from the product department headed by Blake Irwing. Most of the layoffs clashed with the team coordinating with Delicious. Followed by the screenshot revealing the plans to cut off on Delicious.

The Aftermath:

Officially nothing has been declared by Yahoo regarding the ‘yummy’ bookmarking site but you can’t help but wonder – what after Delicious. This would turn the tables around for Yahoo considering how widespread the usage has been with the site. There are no second thoughts when it comes to understanding the internet giant’s plan of downsizing but whether their selection has faltered, only time will tell.

Stay tuned with this space as we will let you know with alternatives to Delicious and ways to backup your bookmarks. Let me know what you think of this recent revelation. Keep your comments coming.

Link: Delicious

[Update] Yahoo is not removing Delicious its just selling it.

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Useful CSS Tip for Beginners – Working of ul li

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 03:04 AM PST

For <ul><li>we need to adjust spacing between the bullet and the text. So I write CSS for ul li but when I want to edit those properties, it's a bit confusing which property is being used and where. In order to explain this I have a small demonstration using below image that will help you understand CSS properties used in the following example.

A : Distance between text and the bullet i.e. padding-left for li.

B : Bottom distance between two li items i.e. margin-bottom for li.

C, D : Vertical and Horizontal position of a bullet i.e. background-position: x y.

E : margin-left of ul.

HTML Code

<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Portfolio</li>
<li>Contact Us</li>
<li>About Us</li>
</ul>

CSS Code

ul {
margin-left: 20px;      /* E */
padding-left: 0px;
list-style:none;
}

li {
padding-left: 30px;                               /* A */
margin-bottom: 10px;                         /* B*/
background:url(bullet.png) no-repeat 2px 8px;       /* C,D */
}

Do drop in your views

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