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To be fair, I've been using that joke for years.
Good One. So ... what did you do at Google?
Clearly gmail tech support.
Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google
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#42Take back delicious if you can and make it better. pls.
I'm curious: what's wrong with delicious?
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#44Joshua's story in "Founders at Work" is one of my top three most inspirational tales from the book. The combination of creating something while working a day job (breaking the work down into 15-minute problems he could solve at night) along with the idea of narrow, vertical services that do one thing well--great lessons. While I don't buy into the whole maxklein nerdfight aspect of all this, I do look forward to seei…
delicious was the most successful thing in a long series of projects. there were other successes (but none as big) and many, many failures. there will be more failures. hopefully a few successes, too.
Would you tell about some other projects that you did before delicious? Not necessarily their names, just roughly what they were about. Basically I'm curious whether there was a logical succession or were you just trying out random ideas.
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#45Take back delicious if you can and make it better. pls.
I'm curious: what's wrong with delicious?
Nothing and thats the problem. Its the same it was since it started (as far as how it functions is concerned). And if I were to guess[1] it is rapidly loosing whatever standing it had good old days. Its horrible, because it had a lot of potential for growth in to something really amazing. In the fast moving internet landscape, you have to evolve with everyone else in order to survive. Other than a facelift, nothing much changed with delicious.
Sure there are sites and services that survived without evolving, but they are exceptions not the norm.
Once awesome but dying sites/softwares: Myspace, Digg, IE
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#47Take back delicious if you can and make it better. pls.
Just use Pinboard. http://pinboard.in/
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#48Joshua's story in "Founders at Work" is one of my top three most inspirational tales from the book. The combination of creating something while working a day job (breaking the work down into 15-minute problems he could solve at night) along with the idea of narrow, vertical services that do one thing well--great lessons. While I don't buy into the whole maxklein nerdfight aspect of all this, I do look forward to seei…
That story is also one of my faves. del.icio.us was a "lean startup" before that phrase became a social media mantra: http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
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Don't worry, I'm about to go to sleep so I won't go on.
Seriously, whats your deal man?
My deal is that I will not let myself be bullied by a person who people support just because he is an angel investor (and they want his money). He's relentlessly attacking me every opportunity he gets for absolutely no reason, and because he knows that people will support him (being a big tech brand name and all) over me (being unimportant).
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delicious was the most successful thing in a long series of projects. there were other successes (but none as big) and many, many failures. there will be more failures. hopefully a few successes, too.
Would you tell about some other projects that you did before delicious? Not necessarily their names, just roughly what they were about. Basically I'm curious whether there was a logical succession or were you just trying out random ideas.
This is taken from Founders At Work, which you should buy (it's great!):
Bookbook - Schacter never came up with a name for this, but it's basically an XML file on your website where you would provide a feed and other people would do this and create a central crossing engine that would say, "You have this book and he wants that book, and you are not that far from each other."
Loaf - a fully distributed social network (no central server whatsoever ... yes, that does sounds like Diaspora). Uses email as a carrier, a bloom filter, and it basically tells people you talked to about other people you corresponded with 'in an encrypted and compressed way'.
Memepool - which was a blog of links (before people knew what blogs were, this was in 1998). So basically an editor with reader submissions - a link at the bottom saying "Send us an email. Give us good links."
Muxway - 2001, 'which was a lot like del.icio.us'. Only it was single player - Schacter could save links, and those links were public, and that was that.
GeoURL - http://geourl.org/
Reversible - a failed version of del.icio.us. It was 'different in a few key ways that made it fail.'