11 posts and columns on Joshua Schachter

Delicious Struggles Through Relaunch Under New Ownership

in Social on September 30, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Here’s the problem with buying something people love: They don’t love when you change it.
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Lanyrd Raises $1.4M to Help People Get More Value From Conferences

in Social on September 6, 2011 at 10:32 am PT

Lanyrd, the surprisingly useful “social conference directory,” has closed seed funding, it announced today. Some $1.4 million in funding came primarily from U.K. investors Index Seed and PROfounders, as well as angels like Joi Ito, Esther Dyson and Joshua Schachter.

Q&A: Joshua Schachter on How Jig Differs From Other Social Sites

in Social on August 29, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Jig’s goal: To more efficiently allocate users’ attention. Other social Web services focus on popular people and topics, rather than more precise, meaningful and useful connections.
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Crowdsourcing Platform ChallengePost Raises $4 Million

in Social on August 8, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Start-ups that rely on the Internet as a source of free labor are nothing new. But the idea keeps coming back, in different forms, because it seems to work.
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With Canvas, Can "Moot" Bottle 4chan and Sell It?

in Social on January 31, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT

Christopher “Moot” Poole, the creator of 4chan, today opened up testing of an image-sharing community called Canvas, which seems a lot like 4chan without the anonymity.

Holy Start-Up Pileup! Social Networking Gets Professional.

in Social on January 4, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

The same variety of apple has apparently been falling from trees all over Silicon Valley, hitting Web entrepreneurs on the head and inspiring them to create better ways to connect personal and professional social networks.

Salesforce Buys Small Contact Management Start-Up Etacts

in Social on December 21, 2010 at 11:59 am PT

Salesforce has bought Etacts, the contacts management tool, according to a source familiar with the matter. Etacts informed users today that it will shut down as of January 31 in order to “pursue other opportunities.”