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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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      Do you even lift?

      These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  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,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.

  4. 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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