Thursday, February 9, 2006

Tagger bags millions in online sale

Article in the SMH about del.icio.us, the online bookmarking / tagging application being sold to Yahoo for millions.

"Joshua Schachter was rumoured to be about $US30 million ($A39.7 million) richer, but this was far from his best Christmas. Just nine days after Yahoo! bought his online registration company Delicious (del.icio.us), and as all eyes were on it, the power failed and the 31-year-old had to work all hours to fix the site's technical emergencies..."

SMH article: http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/tagger-bags-millions-in-online-sale/2006/02/06/1139074134071.html

del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/