Did I Make a Mistake Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo?
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What Jamie wrote
I was a user of Del.icio.us and I really liked it. It was this whole new idea, and being someone that likes to collect and curate links, it vibed with me really strongly. I used it for years and I’m sure I had a couple thousand links stored. The failures of Del.icio.us are what allowed for Pinboard to get launched. Pinboard was fast, and even better reliable. I imported my Del.icio.us links to Pinboard and never looked back. Today I have 14,159 links in Pinboard, including those ones I imported from Del.icio.us.
Schachter wonders what could have become of the site. I doubt it could have been a robust social platform, and if it was it would be most like Pinterest. Possible, but I think it was also too early when Web 2.0 was the shiny buzz word.
Not mentioned in this article is the fact that after Yahoo! did everything it could to ruin Del.icio.us, Pinboard bought it. Pinboard is famously known as a solopreneur product, with just Maciej Cegłowski running it by himself for the last 14 years. Simple, small-business with a paying customer base. No ads or other silly stuff.