Del.icio.us is Gold for Startups
Posted by Stephen M. Nipper at December 10, 2005 11:23 AM
Gold. Gold I tell you!
What am I talking about? There's gold in my del.icio.us account!
The Rethinkers love del.icio.us. Apparently, we aren't the only ones, yesterday it was announced that Yahoo! was purchasing del.icio.us. Congrats Joshua Schachter!
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site with tags that we've covered before. Ignore the social aspect of it...tags+bookmarks is where the gold is. Using del.icio.us, when you find a website that contains useful information...information you want to refer to later, you add a bookmark to it and "tag" it with words you'll remember later. Find a great site, tag it. Find a great site, tag it. (personally, I think del.icio.us' value to Yahoo is the tags....rather than having an algorithm, have human beings determine what a website is about and how popular it is).
I've been using del.icio.us for about a year now. Tagging websites left and right. 296 useful websites later...I have some gold.
Want me to share some gold? How about the best articles on "startups" I read this last year:
Business Opportunities Weblog | How to Raise Money for Your Business
evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups
How to Fund a Startup
Seth's Blog: The new rules of naming
Startup School transcript
Russell Beattie Notebook » Where’s The Ambition?
wingedpig.com - Mark Fletcher's Blog: Stealth Start-Ups Suck
Process of Forming a Company
How to Start a Startup
And yes, there is an RSS feed of my "startup" del.icio.us page.
Each of these is worth reading, worth forwarding to startups you know, worth adding to your own (NEW) del.icio.us account.
J. Matthew Buchanan 
Stephen M. Nipper 
Douglas Sorocco 
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Nadine Says:
December 20, 2005 12:20 AM
(personally, I think del.icio.us' value to Yahoo is the tags....rather than having an algorithm, have human beings determine what a website is about and how popular it is)
A bit off-topic, gomen. I theorize that Yahoo uses this same strategy with their spam filtering and bulk mail folder features. I mean, why invest too much in research on an algorithm when there are hundreds of thousands of people so obsessed with not receiving spam that they will religiously report every piece of spam they receive to you, *for free*?
(Like we have nothing better to do...).