Social Bookmarking with Delicious

What is social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking refers to saving and the organization of Web content, usually website, using “tags”. Instead of saving the link to your Web browser, which is only available on a certain computer, you are saving it to the Web, so that it can be retrieved from any computer. If you're concerned about privacy, you can also make a bookmark private, so it's only viewable by you.

Social Bookmarks use Tags
Users can tag their bookmarked information with meaningful terms. When another user searches, using a term that matches the tag, that information will be listed as a search result. Tagging data makes searching for information faster and more efficient. Social bookmarking is built upon the concepts of a folksonomy. By organizing the information using tags instead of a structured hierarchy, it is easier to find.


Delicious
Delicious (http://www.delicious) – formerly del.icio.us (http:// del.icio.us)
The first application of online bookmarking dates back to 1996, but died with the dot-com crash. In 2003 Joshua Schachter started del.icio.us (now called Delicious – www.delicious.com). Delicious was a prominent pioneer in the area of “tagging” and is credited with coining the term “social bookmarking”. It is considered the "original" social bookmarking site and has had lots of success with its clever domain name (del.icio.us).

Delicious started gaining popularity in 2004, and soon other social bookmarking sites such as Furl, Magnolia (ma.gnolia.com), Stumbleupon and Diigo emerged. Delicious was acquired by Yahoo in December 2005, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.