Del.icio.us
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Template:Lowercase Image:Del.icio.us logo.png 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.
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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:
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
- skin.del.icio.us - A del.icio.us skin for Firefox.
- Simplifying del.icio.us - A simplified posting interface for del.icio.us.
- del.icio.us direc.tor: Delivering A High-Performance AJAX Web Service Broker.
- Expialidocio.us uses the OpenLaszlo platform and the del.icio.us API to display posting histograms and time-specific tag clouds.
- Revealicious - A set of graphic visualisations for your del.icio.us account.
- Delicious Soup - A tool that reveals your del.icio.us activities.
- browse.delicious - A visual browser to explore and experience the del.icio.us community network.
- thumblicio.us - browse del.icio.us using thumbnails.
- del.icio.us most popular treemap
- populicio.us - del.icio.us popular sites.
- LiveMarks - Popular del.icio.us bookmarks dynamically loaded real-time.
- trendalicious - a near real-time view of website popularity trends in del.icio.us.
- CollaborativeRank - A del.icio.us search engine.
- Facetious - Allows you to search at the crossing of several tags
- Cocoalicious - A Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X.
- Pukka - A lightweight Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X.
del.icio.us utilities
Web utilities
- GROU.PS - Share your del.icio.us bookmarks. Combine them with Digg, reddit and other popuplar service providers.
- del.icio.us toolbar for Firefox
- Foxylicious - A Firefox extension that syncs your del.icio.us bookmarks into your browser bookmarks.
- del.icio.us loader loads your Firefox bookmarks directly into your del.icio.us account.
- Del.icio.us import script imports a Netscape/Firefox bookmark file into del.icio.us.
Internet Explorer utilities
- Internet Explorer Active Channel automatically imports your tags to Internet Explorer's favorites.
Safari utilities
- delicious2safari - Import your del.icio.us bookmarks into Safari.
- Safarilicious - Export your Safari Bookmarks To del.icio.us.
- Delibar - Store all your bookmarks in the system bar so you can easily access at it by select the tag and the link.de:Del.icio.us
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