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johnday
Fun article. Looks like there's a fairly solid business model in:

1. Implement something which Yahoo has built, and charge money for it.

2. Wait for them to inevitably sunset the project for no reason.

3. Collect all the displaced users.

Macha
These days surely Google would be a more appealing target.
drcongo
Does Yahoo even still exist?
Andrew-Dufresne
For example, when Google shut down their free RSS readers, a lot of new RSS readers popped up.

NewsBlur, which existed even before the shutdown, had to close free accounts sign up temporarily to cope up with the heavy traffic it started to receive after RSS reader shut down.

DemiGuru
For what it's worth - Yahoo did not build Delicious (Del.icio.us) - They bought it and left it to die much like they did with Flickr R.I.P.