Delicious

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Delicious was a pioneering social bookmarking web service that allowed users to save, tag, and share links online, exemplifying early Web 2.0 collaboration and user-generated content.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Web 2.0 application
social bookmarking service
web service
website
acquiredBy Yahoo!
acquisitionAmount approximately 15 million US dollars
acquisitionDate December 2005
bookmarkCount over 180 million bookmarks at its peak
businessModel advertising-supported
free service
discontinuationDate 2017
feature API for developers
RSS feeds for bookmarks
bookmark bundles
folksonomy tagging system
public and private bookmarks
social discovery of links
tag-based navigation
founder Joshua Schachter
headquartersLocation New York City
inception 2003
influenced Diigo
Pinboard
social tagging practices on the web
logoText del.icio.us
mainActivity link sharing
social bookmarking
tagging of web pages
notableFor early example of Web 2.0
popularizing social bookmarking
use of user-generated tags
operatingSystem cross-platform
originalName del.icio.us
owner AVOS Systems
Science Inc.
Yahoo!
programmingLanguage PHP
Perl
Python
saleDate 2014
April 2011
serviceStatus discontinued
soldBy Yahoo!
soldTo AVOS Systems
Science Inc.
userCount over 5 million users at its peak
websiteURL https://del.icio.us
https://delicious.com

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Web 2.0
hasExample
Esther Dyson
investorIn

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