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  • 19 Jul 08
  • 09 Jul 08
    mcassimatis
    m cassimatis

    dev of th new version of delicious seems to hv almost stalled within Yahoo & Joshua cited recent frustratns w th process as playing part + th recent news coming out of Yahoo! re mass resignatns senior staff pressed his decisn to leave now

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  • 24 Jun 08
    eastsidegringo
    Daniel Hope

    Is it time to give up on delicious?

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  • 21 Jun 08


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      Joshua Schachter is the founder of delicious, a popular
      bookmark-sharing service founded in late 2003 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. He
      also created geoURL, a location-URL reverse directory, and was a… Learn
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    • Yahoo acquired delicious in December of 2005 and we broke the
      news
      here on TechCrunch. delicious is certainly one of my favorite web
      applications, and I have been a frequent user since its very early days. It was
      also one of the first companies profiled on
      TechCrunch
      , so Joshua leaving Yahoo (and delicious) brings an end to a very
      long era.
    • 20 Jun 08
      jlesage
      Julia Lesage

      Founder of delicious leaves Yahoo, which had stalled on developing a new version of the site that it had purchased; no ads on site, no development of it, same old story; Yahoo also dropped its good podcasting directory.

      business del.icio.us history Internet podcast socialbookmarking usability

      • The development of the new version of delicious seems to have almost stalled within Yahoo, and Joshua cited recent frustrations with the process as playing a part in his resignation.
    • Companies:delicious, geoURL, Memepool