Tag: Joshua Schachter
From del.icio.us founder, Joshua Schachter, blog post:
Not even a week after turning three, del.icio.us has just passed the mark of 1 million registered users! That’s more than triple the number of users we had just nine months ago. We can hardly believe it ourselves (although the smell of smoke coming from the server rack seems to eerily confirm it). Thanks to each and every one of you for making all this possible. Now we have one more thing to celebrate at the party next week...
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MIT's prestigious Technology Review profiles the King of Tags, Yahoo's Joshua Schachter (32), and names the del.icio.us maker its 'Young' Innovator of the Year.
In 2001, a wonky Wall Street quantitative analyst named Joshua Schachter had a problem. In the late 1990s, he'd started a website called Memepool, which was a simple collection of Web links that he had found interesting, useful, or both. Over time, as Memepool's users began sending in links they thought the site should feature, Schachter's personal list of bookmarked Web pages grew...
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Del.icio.us has redesigned yet again, now including screenshots (CommonGate Style?), hot stuff, and more focus on the number of people that have bookmarked the hot sites (Digg Fever?).
After years of going ad-free, del.icio.us has quietly started to integrate contextual search ads from Yahoo Search Marketing. For now, ads only show up when users search the entire index of bookmarks.
Instituting ads on a service that is visited by hardcore techies can be dicey. So far, Yahoo seems to be wisely playing it conservatively to see how they...
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