According to this Tweet by First Round Capital’s Josh Kopelman, Google has just hired del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter. We have e-mails out trying to confirm.
After selling his social bookmarking service to Yahoo, he stuck around until last June when he joined the general exodus of talent.
What would be a good project for Schachter at Google—creating automatic bookmarks based on surfing history? Or perhaps he is going to move beyond social bookmarks to help with social search. In any case, congratulations Joshua.
Update: Schachter’s LinkedIn profile lists his current status as a “member of Technical Staff at Google.”
Update 2: Schachter confirms that he’s at Google, but he’s not getting into details. In a reply to me on Twitter, he says, “i’m not commenting until i have something interestin g to say.” Doesn’t anyone use e-mail anymore?
Social bookmarks would be too ‘easy’. Anyway, congrats to him!
facebook: same status info
Congrats.
schacHter. sheesh!
bookmarking is pretty dead, also boring.
how about something like del. but with fun discovery algos.
Perhaps helping to develop an advanced auto bookmarking technology that integrates well with Chrome
I thought I was the only one seeing those strange breaks in text on Twitter (see the extra space in the word “joining” from the screenshot above).
He’s got memepool listed as a current project?
@joshk wins best twitter background by a VC
@cvos – i agree that @joshk’s background is killer but check out @joshu’s background. he has one and only one UI style!
Hi there
Evan Williams lasted 8 months at Google. Let’s see if Mr. Schachter gets bored at Google before.
search filtred by interestin g ness ?
Is Akismet dead?