del.icio.us

=del.icio.us=

del.icio.us (pronounced “delicious”) is a web service for bookmarking, storing, and commenting on website bookmarks. It is a social bookmarking service that allows users to save links that they wish to remember and revisit in the future. The bookmarks saved are public however they can be set to be privately saved or viewed by specific users/groups. Users can tag each of their bookmarks for easier categorization and searching.

The service provides features such as a hotlist for the most popular and recent pages that have been added/tagged. In doing so, it allows users to view the most up to date or most popular searches/tags and can keep the user up to date with worldwide news/events. In addition, del.icio.us also has RSS feeds to their hotlist or users personal bookmarks.

del.icio.us was founded on December 9, 2003 by Joshua Schachter. It was later bought by Yahoo! In 2005 for an estimated US$15 nillion to US$30 million.

The domain man to del.icio.us is an example of a domain hack which is an irregular website address. http://delicious.com and http://delicio.us can also be used and will redirect to the http://del.icio.us/ website

Insights:
 * Users can tag each of their bookmarks to make sorting and searching easier
 * Featues a hotlist of the most recent/popular bookmarks
 * It is a social bookmarking service which requires user feedback
 * Content can be set to either public or private according to the user.
 * RSS feeds are available for use.
 * The websie is clean, simple, and functional. It is not cluttered with advertisements to distract the user.