Joshua Schachter

Joshua Schachter (born 1974) is the creator of Delicious, creator of geoURL and co-creator of Memepool. He has a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Schachter released the first version of Delicious (then called del.icio.us) in September 2003. The service coined the term social bookmarking and featured tagging, a system he'd invented for organizing links suggested to Memepool and publishing some of them on his personal linkblog, Muxway. [cite web | last = Surowiecki | first = James | title = 2006 Young Innovator: Joshua Schachter, 32 | publisher = Technology Review | url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=432 | accessdate = 2008-09-21 ] On March 29 2005, Schachter announced he would work full-time on Delicious. On December 9 2005, Yahoo! acquired Delicious for an undisclosed sum. [cite web | last = Schachter | first = Joshua | title = y.ah.oo! | publisher = del.icio.us blog | url=http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2005/12/yahoo.html | accessdate = 2005-12-09 ] According to "Business 2.0", the acquisition was close to $30 million, with Schachter's share being worth approximately $15 million. [cite web | last = Heilemann | first = John | title = Tag Sale | publisher = Fortune | url=http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/01/01/8368130/ | accessdate = 2006-01-31 ]

Prior to working full-time on Delicious, Schachter was an analyst in Morgan Stanley's Equity Trading Lab. [cite web | last = Rogers | first = Adam | title = Site Seer | publisher = Smithsonian magazine | url=http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/01/01/8368130/ | accessdate = 2008-09-21 ] He created geoURL [cite web | last = O'Connell | first = Pamela Licalzi | title = Online Diary: Location, Location | publisher = New York Times | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E7DD143AF930A25751C0A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=geourl&st=cse | accessdate = 2008-09-21 ] in 2002 and ran it until 2004.

On June 19 2008, Schachter announced his decision to leave Yahoo!. "Techcrunch" reported that the recent news coming out of Yahoo! about mass resignations of senior staff pressed his decision to leave. Joshua also said that he had no future plans but would instead join the "gloriously unemployed". [cite web | last = Cubrilovic | first = Nik | title = It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo | publisher = Techcrunch | url=http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/19/it-gets-worse-for-yahoo-delicious-founder-leaving/ | accessdate = 2008-06-19 ]

References

External links

* [http://joshua.schachter.org/ Joshua's blog]
* [http://delicious.com/joshua Joshua's Delicious bookmarks]

* [http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2004/12/03/a_delicious_interview.html Interview with Joshua about del.icio.us]
* [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_15/b3928112_mz063.htm Businessweek article on tagging]
* [http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1694487,00.html Guardian interview]