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Interview with Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us

Posted by Zonk on from the sooo-tasty dept.

prostoalex writes "Joshua Schachter, a Wall Street programmer by day, and a del.icio.us hacker by night, is interviewed by Guardian. The article also provides a little background story on del.icio.us, how it got started, and how Schachter convinced Stewart Butterfield of Flickr to add tagging to the photo sharing site. Both del.icio.us and Flickr are currently members of the Yahoo! family."

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  1. Re:It's sad by shokk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm guessing he thinks every TLD must produce a competitor to Google or it's not worth having the TLD. Maybe he can scratch his own itch and make the next big hit on .us (maybe he could be dumb.ass.us?) or just live with it.

    --
    "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
  2. What they're all missing by wk633 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or maybe I'm missing something, but I like to store my bookmarks in multiply nested folders. Yahoo, Google, del.ici.us (or however you spell it) only let you catagorize things one level down. You can tag a link as 'funny' or put it in the 'funny' folder, but if you have 20 'funny' links, you can't split them into say, 'visit daily' and 'visit weekly', or 'political' and 'general' or 'cartoons' and 'satire'.

    So I wrote my own. Ajaxed. You can re-arrange by dragging folders into folder to your heart's content. You can share some sets with other people, and keep some sets private. You can even make sets editable by other people. I'm working on import/export.

    I'm just waiting for someone to offer me $30m for it.

    And no, it would NOT survive a slashdot.