Founder of del.icio.us regrets selling to Yahoo

No, the formulation is relatively accurate. Would someone have done better? Probably not.

I emailed pg and asked for the thread to be nuked.

I think about this every week. The Photos Guy?

Keep trying to do something new, but so much undone after Picasa.

And when you have a TON of stuff going into an acquisition that never sees the light of day, you kind of obsess about making it real, even 5 years later.

If I knew how to make something exceptionally better, I would do it. Most would appreciate it. There is much to be left untapped and I'm sure there are more ways to push it beyond "bookmarks", as social voting has already done.

I had the same idea as vaksel. I am still a del.icio.us user, but the problem is, that Yahoo devs seems to not understand the product very deeply, since they did NOTHING to improve it, although a lot of work has been done. They just needlessly complicated the design and redirected the service to a boring domain name.

joshu I think there is still a room for you to to resume where you stopped and starting to truly innovate again. I would be your first user. ;o) Let's start with thinking of some good new quirky domain name. ;-))

Why not work for a YC company or some other small startup instead of Google?

So far I have only reimplemented what Joshua had built a few years ago. If it weren't for the del.icio.us 2 redesign, I wouldn't have a market at all.

That was a very, very bad interview. Heilemann took two different interviews, 8 months apart, and put them together. With a variety of innaccuracies.

Anyway, some engineer told me that in an interview at some point.

Check out joshu's profile.