Joshua Schachter on inventing tags for bookmarks, selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo in 2005, and Yahoo's mismanagement of the service before its 2017 shutdown
As told to , Jake Swearingen @JakeSwearingen — Joshua Schachter's groundbreaking social-bookmarking site Del.icio.us, founded in 2003 … Tweets: @jenny8lee , @csertoglu , @simonowens , and @nymag Tweets: @jenny8lee : Before you're acquired, you're an important visionary. Afterward, you're a crazy person who just wants to burn money. — @joshu on selling to Yahoo! http://nymag.com/... Cem Sertoglu / @csertoglu : Great nostalgic story. To me, http://del.icio.us/ marks the beginning of Web2.0. Surprised to read that the exit number was <$30m. Did I Make a Mistake Selling http://del.icio.us/ to Yahoo? http://nymag.com/... Simon Owens / @simonowens : Reading this, the biggest takeaway is how many opportunities Yahoo squandered over the years. It really was the place that innovation came to die. http://nymag.com/... @nymag : “I don't regret selling to Yahoo. But I do wanna know where it could have gone if I hadn't sold at that point.” http://nymag.com/...