Well, now, isn't this fascinating - Yahoo acquired del.icio.us. Wonder if this means I'll be able to stop using the combination bookmarklet for del.icio.us and My Web 2.0 at some point and get one bookmarklet to rule them all. Automagic sync between del.icio.us and My Web 2.0 bookmarks? Or will the services get merged somehow? Anybody have predictions they want to throw down?

Want to get the best of digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us/popular all in one place? You're in luck! Check out diggdot.us for this particular blend of social news mashup.

[Thx, Jason!]

The new look for del.icio.us splits the interface in half, placing popular links on the right and recent links on the left. Great... what's next? :)

[Via Tech Crunch]

So I've lamented before about the egregiously overflowing mess that is my browser toolbar, as a result of all of the irresistable web services and their bookmarklets. Blummy addresses that problem quite admirably by collapsing a number of bookmarklets into one bookmarklet (or blummlets, as it were) to rule them all. You can configure your blummlet with a number of preset options, or create your own. It allows you to do very sweet time-saving little tricks like post a page to del.icio.us and then send it via Gmail from one contained interface that expands when you click the Blummy bookmarklet. It's a bookmarklet aggregator. It's the Flickr of bookmarklets, yo.

[Via Emily Chang]

Wow, pretty sweet - Yahoo is integrating blog search with their news search, as well as adding Flickr photos and My Web 2.0 results into the mix. This brings together user-created and mainstream media in a way that's unprecedented, totally beating Google to the punch on this one as well as leveraging the goodness of both Flickr and My Web 2.0. From the announcement, we should expecting yet further integration of community created content (podcasts, e.g.) in the future.

The index only includes a subset of the larger blogosphere (those that are included in the My Yahoo feed directory), but will grow to ideally include everything from the blo.gs ping stream. The interface doesn't quite put blogs on equal footing visually - they're off in a sidebar while the regular news search results are in the main pane - but I actually sort of like the way this is done. It's not going to alienate mainstream users who want to stick with their traditional MSM sources, but will provide a still visible alternative. Social software nerds (raising hand), bloggers, and others already kicking back with their second (or fifth...) cocktail in the cluetrain dining car can just click on through to the interface that shows blog search results in the main pane and Flickr results in the sidebar at right (here's an example search on Web 2.0). I dig it. For once, I only have one small request - I want a way to make the blog news search interface my default for news search, so I don't have to click through each time (with option to click through the the mainstream search results).