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.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Web 2.0 application
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social bookmarking service → web service → website → |
| acquiredBy |
Yahoo!
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| acquisitionAmount |
approximately 15 million US dollars
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| acquisitionDate |
December 2005
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| bookmarkCount |
over 180 million bookmarks at its peak
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| businessModel |
advertising-supported
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free service → |
| discontinuationDate |
2017
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| feature |
API for developers
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RSS feeds for bookmarks → bookmark bundles → folksonomy tagging system → public and private bookmarks → social discovery of links → tag-based navigation → |
| founder |
Joshua Schachter
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| headquartersLocation |
New York City
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| inception |
2003
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| influenced |
Diigo
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Pinboard → social tagging practices on the web → |
| logoText |
del.icio.us
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| mainActivity |
link sharing
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social bookmarking → tagging of web pages → |
| notableFor |
early example of Web 2.0
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popularizing social bookmarking → use of user-generated tags → |
| operatingSystem |
cross-platform
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| originalName |
del.icio.us
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| owner |
AVOS Systems
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Science Inc. → Yahoo! → |
| programmingLanguage |
PHP
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Perl → Python → |
| saleDate |
2014
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April 2011 → |
| serviceStatus |
discontinued
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| soldBy |
Yahoo!
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| soldTo |
AVOS Systems
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Science Inc. → |
| userCount |
over 5 million users at its peak
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| websiteURL |
https://del.icio.us
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https://delicious.com → |
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Web 2.0
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hasExample |
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Esther Dyson
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investorIn |