Yahoo!…This is ‘Delicious’
It is believed that after Yahoo! acquired Delicious on December 9, 2005, the entire scene of social networking and social bookmarking got revolutionized. It is also believed that even after so many websites offering the facilities of tagging, saving, sharing etc. almost for a decade, delicious offered its users something more. But what ‘delicious’ offer in reality is what we decided to find out!
The domain name ‘Delicious’ is very catchy and is itself successful in driving in more and more users. Still, in order to attract more traffic towards its website, Delicious introduced quite a number of new features. One can view the most popular or the most recently posted links, right from the homepage, with the help of what is called the ‘hotlist’ or the ‘tags to watch’. Apart from this, the feature to look out for is the one with the help of which a particular user’s entire collection of bookmarks can be viewed by simply typing in his/her username. Take for instance, all you have to do is to type in- ‘http:/del.icio.us/username’ to view this user’s collection.
One of its most revolutionizing feature is that it allows the users to categorize or classify their data using their own vocabulary.This process of tagging a website using one’s own criteria or vocabulary is known as folksonomy (folk + taxonomy).
The other advantages of using ‘delicious’ are that it can be accessed from any computer in the world, with any operating system; it is absolutely free; it requires no special knowledge and is, thus, easy to use; and more than anything else… its absolutely free!
Where one sees folksonomy as a major plus point of this website, in some cases it just might act as the other way around. It sometimes just becomes impossible to control the use of the vocabulary and thus creates chaos and confusion.Since its founder Joshua Schachter created this site in 2003, no efforts have been made to standardize the database. The lack of precision by the user might just lead him/her to any place else than what he/she was looking for, at the very first place.
Moreover, since this site contains a huge number of links, thus browsing through available information gets even more tough.
The delicacies offered at this place are surely different from its contemporaries and yes, even better priced. Oops…it’s free! Despite the fact that, like every other social networking and bookmarking site, even this site is not error free…still, I suggest there is no harm in grabbing its one quick bite. You might just develop a taste for it and say that it is rather yummy…or perhaps- ‘Delicious’.