Delicious (website)

Delicious ( formerly " del.icio.us " ) is a web application for social bookmarking.

The service allows users to create personal bookmarks and to provide them with keywords or tags. The personal collection is publicly visible in general. However, one can also characterize individual bookmarks as private and so exclude from publication. The public nature of the service Delicious example, can be used for a Blog: The individual sees what other users have received their bookmarks in their collection and marked with what tags; see also folksonomy. In addition, users can curate links on a particular topic in a list.

Name

The original service name del.icio.us includes the English adjective " delicious", which can be translated as " delicious ". In an interview with the developer Joshua Schachter said: "There is no deeper meaning of the name. " The name was the result of a consideration, according to which could generate the most words with this six -character suffix and the testimony of a friend who claimed to find good links is like picking cherries. On 31 July 2008 the service has been officially renamed Delicious, while the site was given a new official Internet address delicious.com. Under the old address of the del.icio.us service is also available and the user will be redirected to the new address.

Technology

Delicious has a simple HTML interface and a REST -based API. Its contents can be output as an RSS feed.

The source code of the currently free service is not freely available, but there are copies (clones ) as de.lirio.us (will not be developed any further ) and Scuttle.

History

Developer Joshua Schachter launched the service under the name del.icio.us end of 2003. The service is considered a pioneer of social bookmarking applications, and is still one of the most widely used in this area. According to the company, estimated the number of users on 25 September 2006 with a million. Del.icio.us was the company until 2005.

On 9 December 2005 Yahoo acquired del.icio.us. Since Yahoo had already taken the photo service Flickr in March of the same year (also a pioneer of indexing web content ), was the special attention.

On 17 December 2010 Yahoo announced that they wanted to sell the service soon, because it does not fit into the corporate portfolio. The service will however continue to operate. The YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired the service in mid- 2011.

In September 2011, the company introduced a function for curating web content. Users can publish thematic lists of links, called stacks.

Browser Integration

In some browsers you can dispense with the local bookmark management in favor of a social bookmarking service or at least combine the two systems. To this end, one way, for example, the web browser Flock provided a portion of the bookmark ( or even all bookmarks ), deposit it on Delicious and manage with the help of the browser entries.

For Mozilla Firefox, there was initially an extension, but only facilitates the transfer of the Firefox bookmarks on Delicious. Invested at Delicious bookmarks were not integrated into Firefox itself. Firefox used after installation to continue one's own system, consisting of a specially formatted HTML file. Thus, the user had to still visit the Delicious site, to access the bookmarks stored there can.

On 7 November 2006 Yahoo released a new expansion Delicious Bookmarks for Firefox. After installation, can replace the bookmarks functionality of Firefox completely new server- based system. All bookmarks can now be stored on the server locally is just a cache exists. The Firefox 's Bookmarks component is offered here parallel and you can transfer the bookmarks from there into the new system. If the service should not be accessible from time to time, the user operates on the cache. The changes are reconciled at the next successful connection with the server.

The extension is subject to a proprietary license, and is not available as source code.

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