Founders of YouTube Buy Internet Bookmarking Service Delicious from Yahoo!

Although you may have never heard of Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, you’ve certainly heard of the wildly popular site that they founded: YouTube.

These two web entrepreneurs have bought the Delicious web bookmarking service from Yahoo! Inc. and have big plans for the service.  Yahoo! sold the service as a result of its plan to get rid of sites it owned that were not performing well.

In a statement made today, Hurley and Chen said that they plan on making Delicious part of AVOS, a new internet company that they started.

Said Hurley, who is CEO of AVOS, “We’re excited to work with this fantastic community and take Delicious to the next level. We see a tremendous opportunity to simplify the way users save and share content they discover anywhere on the web.”

Hurley and Chen are relocating Delicious to San Mateo, California, in a location that is a few blocks away from where they started YouTube in 2005.  They are also “aggressively hiring” new workers to improve Delicious and make it easier to use for everyone.