Delicious

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Delicious (also del.icio.us ) was a free web application for social bookmarking . The service is considered the pioneer of social bookmarking applications and has long been one of the most widely used in this area. The company put the number of registered users on September 25, 2006 at one million. The web application changed hands several times, was fundamentally redesigned, finally purchased by Pinboard and deactivated for write access on June 15, 2017. The site has been inactive since August 2019.

The service enabled users to create bookmarks and add keywords or tags . The personal collection was publicly visible. However, individual bookmarks could also be marked as private and thus excluded from publication. The public character of the Delicious service could be used, for example, for a link blog : Individuals can see which other users have added their bookmarks to their collection and which tags have been used. Users can also curate links on a specific topic in a list.

Surname

The original service name del.icio.us contains the English adjective "delicious", which can be translated as "delicious". In an interview, the developer Joshua Schachter stated : "There is no deeper meaning of the name." The name is the result of a consideration, according to which most words can be generated with this six-character suffix and the statement of a friend who claimed Finding good links is like picking cherries. On July 31, 2008, the service was officially renamed Delicious and the website was given a new official Internet address delicious.com . The service could also be reached under the old address del.icio.us and the users were forwarded to the new address. Since April 24, 2016, only the address del.icio.us has been used again.

technology

Delicious had a simple HTML interface and a REST- based API . The contents were as RSS - Web feeds are issued.

The source code of the service is not freely available, but there are replicas ( clones ) such as de.lirio.us and Scuttle , which are no longer developed.

history

The developer Joshua Schachter started the service under the name del.icio.us at the end of 2003. del.icio.us only became a company in 2005.

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

On December 17, 2010, Yahoo announced that they wanted to sell the service soon because it did not fit into the company's portfolio. The service will continue to operate. The YouTube founders, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen , took over the service for their company AVOS in mid-2011.

In September 2011, the company introduced a web content curation feature. Users can publish thematic link lists, so-called stacks.

In May 2014, AVOS sold the service to Science Inc. In January 2016, Delicious Media, a cooperation between Domainersuite and Science Inc. announced that it would now operate the site.

On June 1, 2017, Delicious was bought by Pinboard and has only been read-only since June 15. Users are offered the option of switching to the chargeable pinboard.

Browser integration

With some web browsers , you could do without local bookmark management in favor of a social bookmarking service, or at least combine the two systems. For this purpose, the Flock web browser, for example, provided an option to store part of the bookmarks (or all bookmarks) on Delicious and to manage the entries with the help of the browser.

There was initially an extension for Mozilla Firefox , but it only made it easier to transfer Firefox bookmarks to Delicious . The bookmarks managed by Delicious have not been integrated into Firefox itself. The user still had to visit the Delicious website to access the bookmarks stored there.

On November 7, 2006, Yahoo published the extension "Delicious Bookmarks for Firefox", which could completely replace the bookmark functionality of Firefox and could synchronize the bookmarks with Delicious.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joshua Schachter: Now Serving: 1,000,000. (No longer available online.) In: blog.delicious.com. September 24, 2006, archived from the original on September 9, 2011 ; accessed on August 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Pinboard Acquires Delicious . Retrieved July 12, 2017.
  3. ^ A Del.icio.us interview. In: Rands in Repose. December 3, 2004, accessed January 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Delicious Team: Oh happy day - the new Delicious is here. In: Delicious Blog. July 31, 2008, archived from the original on October 12, 2011 ; accessed on January 4, 2017 (blog post on the renaming and redesign of the website).
  5. ^ Transition to del.icio.us. Blog post about the switch to del.icio.us. In: blog.del.icio.us. April 24, 2016, archived from the original on January 7, 2017 ; accessed on November 1, 2019 .
  6. ↑ What's Next for Delicious? In: Delicious Blog. December 17, 2010, archived from the original on October 7, 2011 ; Retrieved on January 4, 2017 (English): "No, we are not shutting down Delicious ... We're actively thinking about the future of Delicious and we believe there is a home outside the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive. "
  7. ↑ Jürgen Kuri: Bookmark-Service Delicious goes to YouTube founder. In: heise.de. April 28, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Delicious Team: A New Flavor ... Still Delicious. In: AVOS Blog. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012 ; accessed on January 4, 2017 (English).
  9. ↑ Seth Fiegerman: bookmarking site Delicious Acquired for the Third Time in 10 Years . In: Mashable , May 8, 2014. 
  10. ↑ Tony Aly: Delicious Changes. (No longer available online.) In: Delicious Blog. January 11, 2016, archived from the original on January 7, 2017 ; Retrieved January 4, 2017 (English): "My name is Tony Aly, and I'm the CEO of Delicious Media, a new company formed in alliance between my company, Domainersuite, and Science, the company that has managed Delicious since 2013 . Science has transitioned control of Delicious to our new entity ... "
  11. ↑ It's the end of an era, as Pinboard buys and shutters del.icio.us . Retrieved July 12, 2017.
  12. ↑ Golem: del.icio.us extension replaces Firefox bookmarks , November 9, 2006
  13. ↑ Yahoo! Inc .: Delicious Bookmarks 1.5.29. In: Firefox add-ons directory. November 7, 2006, archived from the original on July 3, 2007 ; accessed on January 4, 2017 (English).