Joshua Schachter (; born January 1, 1974) is an American entrepreneur and the creator of Delicious, creator of GeoURL, and co-creator of

Memepool Memepool was a multiple-author weblog, active from 1998, that listed links to interesting, obscure, weird, or funny items on the World Wide Web, web along with a bit of commentary. Items often included multiple links with contents that conflict o ...

. He holds a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering at

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. Schachter released his first version of Delicious (then called del.icio.us) in September 2003. The service coined the term

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and featured tagging, a system he developed for organizing links suggested to Memepool and publishing some of them on his personal linkblog, Muxway. On March 29, 2005, Schachter announced he would work full-time on Delicious. On December 9, 2005,

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acquired Delicious for an undisclosed sum. According to ''

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'', the acquisition was close to $30 million, with Schachter's share being worth approximately $15 million. Prior to working full-time on Delicious, Schachter was an analyst in

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's Equity Trading Lab. He created GeoURL in 2002 and ran it until 2004. In 2006, he was named to the ''

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as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. In June 2008 Schachter announced his decision to leave Yahoo!.

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reported that the recent news coming out of Yahoo! about mass resignations of senior staff pressed his decision to leave. He worked for

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from January 2009 to June 2010.

References

External links

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Interview with Joshua about del.icio.us

1974 births Living people People from Long Island Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering alumni 20th-century American Jews People in information technology 21st-century American Jews {{compu-bio-stub