Peter Gadjokov (pvg) co-founded del.icio.us in 2003. His previous projects include Bigbook, Infoscape, Weathernews, and the internal networking protocols for an Austrian tank.
We had a pretty wild time. Had to turn off a lot of background services and completely saturated our MySQL writes, but the site stayed up. I'll write up our experience in a couple of days in some detail.
The idea is good, is the tagline 'social bookmarking for introverts' really motivating? It seems that at least in the 18-25 age range the word introvert has a stigma...
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The Delicious blog couldn't even handle its own traffic yesterday.
Love that they're completely transparent about their number of users and how they're using it as a bargaining chip to convert fence-sitters like me.
Looks like it might really pay to be an early adopter.