Del.icio.us
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Del.icio.us
The website del.icio.us is a
social bookmarking, social software web service for storing and sharing web
bookmarks. The site came online in late 2003 and was developed by Joshua
Schachter, co-maintainer of Memepool.
Everything posted to del.icio.us is publicly viewable by default, although a
user can mark specific bookmarks as private, and mass-imported bookmarks are
private by default. The public aspect is emphasized; it is not intended to be a
tool for storing private bookmark collections. Many people use del.icio.us to
publish "linkblogs" on their weblogs.
A non-hierarchical keyword categorization system is used on del.icio.us where
users can tag each of their bookmarks with a number of freely chosen keywords
(cf. folksonomy).
A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a given tag is available; for
instance, the URL "http://del.icio.us/tag/wiki"
displays all of the most recent links tagged "wiki". Its collective nature also
makes it possible to view bookmarks added by similar-minded users.
The emphasis on recent additions makes it a convenient mechanism for
propagating
internet memes and trends.
Simple HTML interface with human readable URLs, as well as a REST API and RSS
feeds for web syndication are used on del.icio.us.
Use of the service is currently free. The source code of the site is not
available, but a user's own entered data is freely downloadable through
the API.
The website has an unconventional
domain name, known as a domain hack, which may have contributed to its
popularity. It was the second Internet company hosted on a domain hack that
Yahoo! acquired, blo.gs being
the first.
The websites
de.lirio.us, del.not.us and sa.bros.us are open source clones of del.icio.us.
There are a number of innovations around social bookmarks beyond simple urls.
Flickr bookmarks pictures, YouTube bookmarks videos, and Digg bookmarks news.
Yahoo!
acquired del.icio.us on Friday, December 9, 2005.
Sample queries
View recent entries:
View today's popular entries:
View popular tags:
Find any url that
is tagged with "Nanotechnology":
Combine tags. Find any url that is tagged with both "Nanotechnology"
and "Fabrication":
Find entries with a certain
media type:
Find the history of how a url has been tagged:
<h2>See also</h2>
- <!--LINK 31--> - the method of organization that del.icio.us uses.
- <!--LINK 32--> - the service that del.icio.us offers
- <!--LINK 33--> - developer of del.icio.us
- <!--LINK 34--> - acquirer of del.icio.us
<h2>External links</h2>
<h3>Official sites</h3>See also
- folksonomy - the method of organization that del.icio.us uses.
-
social bookmarking - the service that del.icio.us offers
-
Joshua Schachter - developer of del.icio.us
- Yahoo!
- acquirer of del.icio.us
External links
Official sites
Alternate del.icio.us
interfaces
del.icio.us
utilities
Web utilities
-
GROU.PS - Share your del.icio.us bookmarks. Combine them with Digg,
reddit and other popuplar service providers.
Firefox/Netscape
utilities
Internet Explorer utilities
Safari utilities
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