Delicious, the social bookmarking service and Web 2.0 pioneer, will live on as part of a new Internet company run by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

Delicious, whose future had been in question since Yahoo announced its intention to divest itself of it last year, will become part of Avos, a new company Hurley and Chen have launched.

The YouTube founders plan to make Delicious "easier and more fun" as well as sharpen its ability to help users manage information overload, Avos and Yahoo said on Wednesday.

Delicious, founded in 2003 by Joshua Schachter who is no longer involved with it, helped usher in the Web 2.0 era of online applications, along with Flickr, which Yahoo also acquired, and others.

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