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The website del.icio.us is a Social Bookmarking , Social Software Web Service for storing and sharing Web Bookmark s. The site came online in late 2003 and was developed by Joshua Schachter , co-maintainer of Memepool . Everything posted to del.icio.us is publicly viewable by default, although a user can mark specific bookmarks as private, and mass-imported bookmarks are private by default. The public aspect is emphasized; it is not intended to be a tool for storing private bookmark collections. Many people use del.icio.us to publish " Linkblogs " on their Weblogs . A non- Hierarchical keyword categorization system is used on del.icio.us where users can tag each of their bookmarks with a number of freely chosen keywords (cf. Folksonomy ). A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a given tag is available; for instance, the URL "http://del.icio.us/tag/wiki" displays all of the most recent links tagged "wiki". Its collective nature also makes it possible to view bookmarks added by similar-minded users. The emphasis on recent additions makes it a convenient mechanism for propagating Internet Meme s and trends. Simple HTML interface with human readable URL s, as well as a REST API and RSS feeds for Web Syndication are used on del.icio.us. Use of the service is currently free. The source code of the site is not available, but a user's own entered data is freely downloadable through the API . The website has an unconventional Domain Name , known as a Domain Hack , which may have contributed to its popularity. It was the second Internet company hosted on a domain hack that Yahoo! acquired, Blo.gs being the first. The websites bookmarks pictures, YouTube bookmarks videos, and Digg bookmarks news. 2005 . SAMPLE QUERIES View recent entries: View today's popular entries: View popular tags: Find any Url that is tagged with "Nanotechnology": Combine tags. Find any url that is tagged with both "Nanotechnology" and "Fabrication": Find entries with a certain media type : Find the history of how a url has been tagged: SEE ALSO
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