04/12/05
delicious not so delicious for Google
March 26: HNTB mentions that Google is working out a deal with delicious.
March 29: The guy running delicious announces "outside investment" for the first time but doesn't mention specifics
April 10: The list of investors is revealed
Google either didn't end up investing in it or is hiding behind one of the investment partners just to spite HNTB. (Like they even give a fuck about my blog.) Either way, they lost out. I would have swallowed the thing whole.
However, the fact that Amazon is on the list is interesting.
Union Square Ventures leads the investment group, and the other members are Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh Koppelman, Howard Morgan, Tim O'Reilly, and Bob Young.
