Delicious

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced "delicious") 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 delicious.com 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 delicious.com to publish "linkblogs" on their weblogs.

A non-hierarchical keyword categorization system is used on delicious.com 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; 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 delicious.com.

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:

• http://delicious.com/recent

View today's popular entries:

• http://delicious.com/popular

View popular tags:

• http://delicious.com/tag

Find any url that is tagged with "Nanotechnology":

• http://delicious.com/tag/Nanotechnology

Combine tags. Find any url that is tagged with both "Nanotechnology" and "Fabrication":

• http://delicious.com/tag/Nanotechnology+Fabrication

Find entries with a certain media type:

• http://delicious.com/tag/system:media:video

Find the history of how a url has been tagged:

• http://delicious.com/url?url=http://wikipedia.org/

<h2>See also</h2>

• <!--LINK 31--> - the method of organization that delicious.com uses.
• <!--LINK 32--> - the service that delicious.com offers
• <!--LINK 33--> - developer of delicious.com
• <!--LINK 34--> - acquirer of delicious.com

<h2>External links</h2>

<h3>Official sites</h3>See also

• folksonomy - the method of organization that delicious.com uses.
• social bookmarking - the service that delicious.com offers
• Joshua Schachter - developer of delicious.com
• Yahoo! - acquirer of del.icio.us

Links

Official sites

• delicious.com
• delicious.com blog
• delicious.com e-mail discussion archives

Alternate delicious.com interfaces

• skin.delicious.com - A delicious.com skin for Firefox.
• Simplifying delicious.com - A simplified posting interface for delicious.com.
• delicious.com direc.tor: Delivering A High-Performance AJAX Web Service Broker.
• Expialidocio.us uses the OpenLaszlo platform and the delicious.com API to display posting histograms and time-specific tag clouds.
• Revealicious - A set of graphic visualisations for your delicious.com account.
• Delicious Soup - A tool that reveals your delicious.com activities.
• browse.delicious - A visual browser to explore and experience the delicious.com community network.
• thumblicio.us - browse delicious.com using thumbnails.
• delicious.com most popular treemap
• populicio.us - delicious.com popular sites.
• LiveMarks - Popular delicious.com bookmarks dynamically loaded real-time.
• trendalicious - a near real-time view of website popularity trends in delicious.com.
• CollaborativeRank - A delicious.com search engine.
• Facetious - Allows you to search at the crossing of several tags
• Cocoalicious - A Cocoa delicious.com Client for Mac OS X.
• Pukka - A lightweight Cocoa delicious.com Client for Mac OS X.

delicious.com utilities

Web utilities

• GROU.PS - Share your delicious.com bookmarks. Combine them with Digg, reddit and other popuplar service providers.

Firefox/Netscape utilities

• delicious.com toolbar for Firefox
• Foxylicious - A Firefox extension that syncs your delicious.com bookmarks into your browser bookmarks.
• delicious.com loader loads your Firefox bookmarks directly into your delicious.com account.
• delicious.com import script imports a Netscape/Firefox bookmark file into delicious.com.

Internet Explorer utilities

• Internet Explorer Active Channel automatically imports your tags to Internet Explorer's favorites.

Safari utilities

• delicious2safari - Import your delicious.com bookmarks into Safari.
• Safarilicious - Export your Safari Bookmarks To delicious.com.

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