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Wrote del.icio.us and invented tagging. Echoes of my original design are still around (notably account urls being web.site/userid)

by joshu 4y ago

carabiner 4y ago
yo
dang 4y ago
And inspired the design of HN! https://web.archive.org/web/20051220094850/http://del.icio.us/popular/ https://web.archive.org/web/20051220094850/http://del.icio.u... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903365 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/sets/72157600740166824 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/sets/72157600740166824 (credit to joshu)
- joshu 4y ago
  I'm still a bit traumatized by the pink popularity badge. What was I thinking? The wordpress suggestion in the response is just A+.
jherdman 4y ago
My first web app was a del.icio.us clone, it helped me get started as a web dev. I still write clones of it when testing new web tech. Many thanks!
HaZeust 4y ago
My social network Touchbase (www.touchbase.id) owes you a great deal for account URL schemas used by online platforms, thank you!
seanhunter 4y ago
I loved that site man.
akrymski 4y ago
Delicious was awesome, and is dearly missed. Thank you for your contribution. I have always wondered if it could be scaled to a Google alternative. Ranking pages by how many people have bookmarked them seems like a good alternative to PageRank.
- joshu 4y ago
  Yes. The experiments at Yahoo showed that bookmarked things were MUCH, MUCH more likely to be highly ranked.
julienchastang 4y ago
Thank you Josh, and you are not forgotten :-) ! del.icio.us was indeed extraordinary. One thing people forget was how good del.icio.us was as a search engine sometimes returning search results that were superior to that of Google. If you can beat Google at search, even in a limited area, you are on to something. In retrospect, the acquisition by Yahoo could perhaps have gone differently and was maybe not the best outcome for this remarkable technology.
loco5niner 4y ago
I miss it

Wrote del.icio.us and invented tagging. Echoes of my original design are still around (notably account urls being web.site/userid)

by joshu 4y ago

Wrote del.icio.us and invented tagging. Echoes of my original design are still around (notably account urls being web.site/userid)

carabiner 4y ago

dang 4y ago

And inspired the design of HN! https://web.archive.org/web/20051220094850/http://del.icio.us/popular/ https://web.archive.org/web/20051220094850/http://del.icio.u... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903365 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/sets/72157600740166824 https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/sets/72157600740166824 (credit to joshu)

joshu 4y ago
I'm still a bit traumatized by the pink popularity badge. What was I thinking? The wordpress suggestion in the response is just A+.

jherdman 4y ago

My first web app was a del.icio.us clone, it helped me get started as a web dev. I still write clones of it when testing new web tech. Many thanks!

HaZeust 4y ago

My social network Touchbase (www.touchbase.id) owes you a great deal for account URL schemas used by online platforms, thank you!

seanhunter 4y ago

I loved that site man.

akrymski 4y ago

Delicious was awesome, and is dearly missed. Thank you for your contribution. I have always wondered if it could be scaled to a Google alternative. Ranking pages by how many people have bookmarked them seems like a good alternative to PageRank.

joshu 4y ago
Yes. The experiments at Yahoo showed that bookmarked things were MUCH, MUCH more likely to be highly ranked.

julienchastang 4y ago

Thank you Josh, and you are not forgotten :-) ! del.icio.us was indeed extraordinary. One thing people forget was how good del.icio.us was as a search engine sometimes returning search results that were superior to that of Google. If you can beat Google at search, even in a limited area, you are on to something. In retrospect, the acquisition by Yahoo could perhaps have gone differently and was maybe not the best outcome for this remarkable technology.

loco5niner 4y ago

I miss it