Joshua Schachter

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Joshua Schachter (born 1974) (pronounced [ˈʃæk.tɚ]) is the creator of del.icio.us, creator of geoURL and co-creator of Memepool. On March 29, 2005, he announced he would work full-time on the del.icio.us project. [1] Joshua's popular del.icio.us website helped to popularize the use of tags on the web, particularly within the blogging community.

On December 9, 2005, del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo!, Inc. for an undisclosed sum [2]. According to Business 2.0, the acquisition was close to $30 million, with Schachter's share being approximately $15 million [3].

Prior to working full-time on del.icio.us, Schachter was employed as a programmer in Morgan Stanley's Equity Trading Lab.

He has a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and created GeoURL in 2002 and ran it until 2004.

[edit] External links

• joshua's blog
• joshua's del.icio.us bookmarks
• The del.icio.us blog.
• del.icio.us
• Memepool
• Interview With Joshua about del.icio.us
• Businessweek article on tagging.
• Guardian interview
• Slashdot discussion about Guardian interview