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NOTE: This site was formerly located at Del.icio.us

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is an online social book marking website which started in late 2003. It is presently owned by Yahoo! and has a host of unique features. It is a web site which helps you to store, share and discover new online bookmarks.

edit How It Works

The visitors to the site can tag their bookmarks in a unique non-hierarchical system which follows the keyword categorizing method. Thus the users can freely select their keywords. You may even get a combined look at the tags available with the bookmarks. For instance if you open a particular URL, you will find all the available tags in one page itself. Thus you can view all the available bookmarks that have been added by like minded users.

The website conveys interesting and popular trends by having different pages for different categories. On its home page it has a “Hot list”. The very name tells the visitor the popularity of the bookmarks included there. Then it has “Popular” page and a “Recent” page. The website has a very simplified HTML interface which has human readable URLs along with various other features like RSS feeds, REST API, unique domain names and so on. All these have made del.icio.us a very popular website.

edit It's Free!

It is free to use del.icio.us. There aren’t any sign up charges. You may mark certain portions of the bookmarks as private but generally speaking everything that you post on del.icio.us can be seen by the visitors to the site by default. However bookmarks which are imported are in private section by default. The website encourages the public aspect of the bookmarked portions and doesn’t really promote private or unshared bookmarks.

Usually people use this website's network badges, tag rolls and link rolls to share and display information and links on their weblogs. Some other users use the “Daily Bog Posting” and RSS feeds features to do it.

edit Related Sites

There are a few other sites similar to del.icio.us. Some of them are sa.bros.us, de.lirio.us and few book marking sites like Furl, Blinklist and Simpy.

edit Other

The domain name del.icio.us is a very popular example of how domain names are hacked. A common word has been combined with in such a manner that the domain hack became perfect. This not that this is the first instance of a domain hack in history but this website is the most well known hack and most visited. Its acquisition by Yahoo! is considered as the most high profile by any other site in the domain hack category. Now when you visit Delicious.com it will also redirect you to del.icio.us site!