del.icio.us is an application of Web for Social Bookmarking.

Function

del.icio.us it makes possible for the user to put on a personal collection by bookmarks and annotieren these with tags. The personal collection is publicly visible. So del.icio.us for example for it, a Linkblog can be used be published. Into the own collection taken up bookmarks are in principle publicly visible. In addition, individual bookmarks can be marked as private and be excluded thus from the publication on from other observable sides.

By the unification of the bookmark collections of the users becomes visible for the individual user, who likewise accepted other user sides from its bookmark collection to its collection and by which tags her her to have marked; see also Folksonomy.

del.icio.us a simple HTML surface has and a API which is based on REMAINDER. Its contents can be spent also as RSS feeds.

The use of the service is at present free. The source code of the Site is not freely available, however reproductions (clones) exist as de.lirio.us and to Scuttle.

History

del.icio.us by its developer Joshua Schachter at the end of was started 2003. It is considered to one of the usually-used services for Social Bookmarking as a pioneer of the Social Bookmarking applications and is until today. The number of users becomes estimated on 200.000. The enterprise del.icio.us only 2005 became.

del.icio.us became on 9 December 2005 of Yahoo! bought up. The assumption was particularly considered, since Yahoo already likewise day-went to belonging photo service Flickr in the March of the same yearly that to the pioneers had bought up.

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  A social bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them.