Joshua Schachter @ Del.icio.us: The Banker Who Invented Social Bookmarking

<p>In the late 90s, a weblog called Memepool was gaining popularity for more than just its posts. Half of its million-plus users per month were enjoying a unique feature built by the site's operator, Joshua Schachter. The feature allowed Joshua to bookmark interesting links from around the Web and share them with the site's followers. This was the start of social bookmarking.</p><p>To that point, it was only Joshua sharing his links. Thinking other people might enjoy being able to do the same thing, Joshua built a tool anyone could use to bookmark and share interesting links. He called that tool del.icio.us.</p><p>del.icio.us grew in popularity so quickly that it had thousands of user in its first month, investment from a top NYC venture capital firm shortly after, and, within eight months, an acquisition offer from Yahoo!</p><p>On this episode of Web Masters, Joshua shares the story of how it all happened and his thoughts on why the site became so popular so quickly.</p><p>For a complete transcript of the episode, <a href="https://latonas.com/blog/web-masters-episode-9-joshua-schachter/">click here</a>.</p>