Posted on Thursday 27 October 2005 - Popularity: unranked
Today seams to be the big day of interviews at OS X Code (r,s). Here’s another one with Joshua Schachter, the founder of the social bookmarking web service del.ici.us. As a developer myself, I found the answer to this question most interesting:
Q: Which are you going to push, the individual or social uses?
A: You won’t use it if it’s not useful to you. But we’ll put in more social structure. Group tags are coming — tags that are lightly permissioned. You’d tag it as for a group, e.g., “groupname: tag.” (Example: nptech, a tag used by people in the non-profit tech field.) In the case of people collectively organizing around a tag, I think you want to amplify that. We’re trying to put in privacy now; it’s a little bit of a challenge to do and keep it fast.
I worry about systems that stay in stealth mode. There’s stuff you’re not learning. We generally push code out to the live site 2-3/week.
