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The original Delicious logo from the company’s 2003 founding.

video-sharing app). Delicious, originally founded in 2003 and bought by Yahoo! in 2005, was created as a way to store and share online book- marks with other people. It was a social networking approach to discov- ering everything the web has to offer and sharing those discoveries with both strangers and friends. AVOS purchased Delicious in 2011 and has been running the website ever since, although the layout changed quite a bit after the purchase was finalized. AVOS Systems has acquired other companies, including Tap 11, which has given businesses a way to analyze both social and numerical data. Steve and Chad’s new company will likely continue to expand in the fu- ture, although they may eventually start a whole new project. Only time will tell!