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Comment by joshu | Hacker News Reader

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

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And inspired the design of HN!

https://web.archive.org/web/20051220094850/http://del.icio.u...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903365

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/sets/72157600740166824 (credit to joshu)

I'm still a bit traumatized by the pink popularity badge. What was I thinking?

The wordpress suggestion in the response is just A+.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

I loved that site man.

I miss it

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