Getting it Right

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12 Dec 2005

Must-read post by Ari Paparo on why older shared bookmarking services such as his own Blink didn’t work out as well as the much more recent and less-funded del.icio.us:

"[P]roduct design matters. We had more money, more users, a five year head start, and some really, really smart people working on bookmarking in 1999. The bottom line is that we simply didn

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