• The New, Monday, September 12, 2011 12:57 PM

YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have discovered the next killer Web service: Delicious! Well, maybe "discover" is too strong a word, but the duo has resolved to breathe new life into the once-trendy social bookmarking service. What do Hurley and Chen see in Delicious, which they purchased from Yahoo earlier this year (for an undisclosed sum)? Apparently, no less than a cure to information overload.

"There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet," Chen tells The New York Times. Once the blight of tech geeks and media professions, now even average consumers are drowning in a flood of news feeds, tweets, status updates, new sites and "must see" videos.

From its inception in 2003, Delicious was praised as a digital organizer, as it let users save links from around the Web and then sort them using a simple tagging system. Hurley and Chen say the revamped service -- which could appear later this year -- will resemble the original Delicious, but with a simpler design and new features.

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