I think MyWeb has more going for it from a design and usability standpoint than del.icio.us but the latter has the community support. If by borrow from both, Jeremy means that MyWeb will benefit from being able to easily share data between the two, that could be a good, although oddly conflicting thing, but if he means they will strip what’s good out of MyWeb and put it into del.icio.us then the likelihood of MyWeb surviving is minimal which will suck for those of us who actually like that service. And definitely suck for developers using the MyWeb API because their programs would likely be broken.

As you said, Adam, the best of both services within six months is a good prediction, I think. I would be surprised if they ditch the del.icio.us name though. And if they try to force people to integrate with their Yahoo accounts it could be Flickr revolt all over again, so doubtful they will touch that dynamite.

A very curious acquisition indeed.

> Yahoo is going to run competing services?

Exactly what I wondered.

With Flickr and Photos/PhotoMail, it definitely makes sense, since both services had separately developed quite a disparate community and user set.

But MyWeb is practically a ghost town. If I were Yahoo, I’d be figuring out a way to combine the best of both services into, perhaps, a brand new service… within 6 months.

The longer MyWeb and del.icio.us run as separate services, the harder it’ll be to integrate the two down the line.