Delicious (website)

del.icio.us is a social software web service for sharing web bookmarks. del.icio.us was developed by Joshua Schachter, co-maintainer of Memepool. Use of the service is currently free. The source code is not available, but entered data is downloadable through the API. According to del.icio.us/doc/about:

"del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others."

Everything posted to del.icio.us is publicly viewable; it is not a tool for storing private bookmark collections. Many people use del.icio.us to publish "linkblogs" on their weblogs. del.icio.us uses a non-hierarchical keyword categorization system (cf. folksonomy) and features a combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a given tag. For instance, the URL "http://del.icio.us/tag/wiki" displays all of the most recent links tagged "wiki". Its collective nature enables also checking additions of similar-minded users.

The emphasis on recent additions makes it an easy vehicle for Internet memes and trends.

del.icio.us has a simple HTML interface with human readable URLs, as well as a REST API and RSS feeds for web syndication.

External links

• del.icio.us
• Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tool Collection
• Snapshot of what URLs that are being linked are popular among the users
• del.icio.us Smart Tagging Plugin for WordPress
• Durl, an RSS feed for del.icio.us URL queries
• Delicious: a del.icio.us client made in China
• Foxylicious (integration with Firefox browser)
• Bunnyhug Updater del.icio.us
• New Del.icio.us popular sites
• WYSIWYG tool for del.icio.us
• A Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X