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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. It's sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That this is probably the most known site with a .US domain name.

    1. Re:It's sad by glimmy · · Score: 5, Funny

      That is probably because no one can remember how to spell del.icio.us

    2. Re:It's sad by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

      No... what's sad is that goatse was the most well known .cx domain.

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  2. Re:What is the name for these people... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Anybody have any insight, or even a good suggested name for these people?

    "p.eop.le"?
  3. Re:The future of del.icio.us and flickr at Yahoo! by Cal+Paterson · · Score: 2, Funny

    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!

  4. Re,di,culo,us by quokkapox · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Re,di,culo,us by Paua+Fritter · · Score: 3, Funny
      "delicious" is one of the few English words whose spelling I cannot seem to commit to memory

      Like half of slashdot posters, you seem to have a difficulty with "ridiculous" too.

  5. Re:What is the name for these people... by sd_diamond · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:What's so original about tagging? by generic-man · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've invented a new HTML tag that you can use to tag your own web pages! Here's an example:

    <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.

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  7. Re:What is the name for these people... by covertbadger · · Score: 2, Funny

    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/

  8. Re:What is the name for these people... by heinousjay · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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  9. Re:The future of del.icio.us and flickr at Yahoo! by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    geospatial technologies

    Whooooooooa! They have that on the Intarweb now?

    KFG

  10. Re:The benefits of tagging... by Marc2k · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey..or there's always the Semantic Web! [crickets]

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