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Interview with Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us
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."
That this is probably the most known site with a .US domain name.
Has anybody invented a name yet, for the "internet" types of people who are obsesses with every new silly fad like email, www, dsl, im, linux, etc.? There's a whole lot of those (you) people out there, and I just don't get it. Not only are there a lot of people into this stuff, but some are even militant about it, from what I can tell (ie: Don't make fun of email! It's better than USPS)
I've had an Atari Personal Computer since the Atari Personal Computer days, and I've kept up with all of the new changes, ideas (hell, color TVs, even), but this "internet" stuff seems (to me) to be nothing more than personal narcicism, magnified millions of times over, combined with a desperate, almost pathteic need to connect with other personalities in order to fill a massive void in their own personal lives combined with a total lack of any kind of academic discipline (it seems that more than half of the people who write online are functionally illiterate). Is it just me? Am I the last one alive with his own brain after the Body Snatchers came through?
Anybody have any insight, or even a good suggested name for these people?
"p.eop.le"?
With the convergence of technologies and the explosion of geospatial technologies
I think every IT marketer on the planet just found this years buzzword. Quick! Invest! To the stock market , Robin!
Delicious: the only site I've had to explicitly bookmark because "delicious" is one of the few English words whose spelling I cannot seem to commit to memory, and even if I could, I'd never remember where to put the frickin dots.
it's a blue bright blue Saturday hey hey
I agree. We really need to coin a trendy new phrase to help us make fun of all those people who waste their time chasing trends.
I've invented a new HTML tag that you can use to tag your own web pages! Here's an example:
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<meta name="keywords" content="rss,web 2.0,opml,javascript,ajax,css"
I hope all the popular search engines like HotBot pick it up soon.
For more information, click here.
Anybody have any insight, or even a good suggested name for these people?
It can only be 'wankr's - http://www.parm.net/web2.0/
This BBS stuff seems (to me) to be nothing more than personal narcicism, magnified millions of times over, combined with a desperate, almost patheic need to connect with other personalities in order to fill a massive void in their own personal lives.
Trendy, is what I'd call it. Why use a BBS when you can just pick up the goddamn phone or mail someone.
We're taking computers away from you Jolt cola swilling antisocial techno-luddite TWATS and there's nothing you can do about it.
No you aren't. You depend on us to make things work. Your ability to click links and pick jarring background colors for your whiny blog in no way makes you technically capable.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
geospatial technologies
Whooooooooa! They have that on the Intarweb now?
KFG
Hey..or there's always the Semantic Web! [crickets]
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