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Joshua Schachter (/ˈʃæktər/; born January 1, 1974) is an American entrepreneur and the creator of Delicious and GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool. He holds a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Schachter released his 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 developed for organizing links suggested to Memepool; he published some of them on his personal linkblog, Muxway.[1] On March 29, 2005, Schachter announced he would work full-time on Delicious. On December 9, 2005, Yahoo! acquired Delicious for an undisclosed sum. According to Business 2.0, the acquisition price was $30 million, with Schachter's share being worth approximately $15 million.[2]

Prior to working full-time on Delicious, Schachter was an analyst with Morgan Stanley's Equity Trading Lab.[3] In 2002, he developed GeoURL[4] and ran it until 2004. Schacter started the "geowanking" mailing list.[5][6]

In 2006, Schachter was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[7] In June 2008, Schachter announced his decision to leave Yahoo!. TechCrunch reported that rumors about mass resignations of Yahoo! senior staff prompted his decision to leave.[8]

Schachter worked for Google from January 2009[9] to June 2010.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Surowiecki, James. "2006 Young Innovator: Joshua Schachter, 32". Technology Review. Retrieved September 21, 2008.
  2. ↑ Heilemann, John (January 28, 2006). "Tag Sale". Fortune. Retrieved January 31, 2006.
  3. ↑ Rogers, Adam (January 28, 2006). "Site Seer". Smithsonian magazine. Retrieved September 21, 2008.
  4. ↑ O'Connell, Pamela Licalzi (February 13, 2003). "Online Diary: Location, Location". New York Times. Retrieved September 21, 2008.
  5. ↑ "Geowanking". www.metrosiliconvalley.com. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  6. ↑ "[Geowanking] Is this thing on?". geowanking.org. Archived from the original on January 7, 2010. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  7. ↑ "2006 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2006. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
  8. ↑ Cubrilovic, Nik. "It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo". Techcrunch. Retrieved June 19, 2008.
  9. ↑ Arrington, Michael (January 12, 2009). "Confirmed: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Joins Google". Techcrunch. Retrieved January 12, 2009.
  10. ↑ Parr, Ben (June 2010). "Delicious Creator Leaves Google". Mashable. Retrieved June 1, 2010.