Joshua Schachter

Creator of Delicious, GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool, Schachter holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He released the first version of Delicious (then called del.icio.us) in September 2003. The service coined the term social bookmarking and featured tagging, a system Schachter developed for organizing links suggested to Memepool and publishing some of them on his personal linkblog, Muxway.

On December 9, 2005, Yahoo! acquired Delicious for an undisclosed sum. Prior to working full-time on Delicious, he had been an analyst in Morgan Stanley's Equity Trading Lab. Schachter created GeoURL in 2002 and ran it until 2004.

In June 2008 he announced his decision to leave Yahoo, and Schachter went on to work for Google from January 2009 to June 2010.