Posts Tagged ‘joshua schachter

Secondo alcune recenti indiscrezioni sembra che Yahoo abbia intenzione, nei prossimi mesi, di chiudere (o forse vendere) Delicious, lo storico servizio di bookmark sharing acquistato dal colosso del web fondato da Jerry Yang e David Filo nel 2005. Se la notizia della sua chiusura fosse vera, Delicious si appresterebbe a chiudere la sua carriera in [...]

Etacts, a Y-Combinator startup in the contact-management business, has been acquired by Salesforce for an undisclosed amount. The startup’s product attempted to bring advanced customer relationship management to its users’ personal e-mail contacts with a modicum of simple features and a slick Gmail integration. When we first covered Etacts shortly after its February 2010 launch, [...]

Union Square Ventures — the New York-based investment firm with a stake in Twitter, Foursquare and Zynga — has announced that it has invested in Delicious founder Joshua Schachter’s latest project: stealth startup Tasty Labs. Schachter founded the social bookmarking web service Delicious in 2003 and went on to sell it to Yahoo in 2005, [...]

Joshua Schachter, the creator of the social bookmarking web service Delicious, has announced via Twitter that he is leaving Google after a year and a half on the job. Schachter’s tweet is short but sweet: “today is my last day at google. sad about leaving but excited about the future.” His next tweet then goes [...]

Joshua Schachter explains how URL shorteners like TinyURL, bit.ly, etc., originally created to prevent long URLs from breaking in 1990s e-mail clients, and now used primarily as a means of monetizing someone else’s content, are bad: They “add another layer of indirection to an already creaky system, [making what] used to be …


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