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del.icio.us Mashups
You’ll learn plenty about del.icio.us throughout this book, but here’s what you should know for starters. del.icio.us is a social bookmarking service. del.icio.us users save, organize, and share their favorite web links with del.icio.us. It’s not the first social bookmarking services, but it is hands down one of the most advanced and popular.
del.icio.us was created by someone who knows good links. Before he made del.icio.us, Joshua Schachter was the co-maintainer of Memepool (www.memepool.com), one of the earliest weblog-like websites (started in 1998), and always a good starting place to find something funny, interesting, scary, or weird on a web. In 2003, Joshua started developing his own personal link-saving system on the web, meant to be a place to save bookmarks to his favorite websites. After a short while, he added a user account system and opened it up to the general public. It rapidly increased in popularity and, because of its excellent organizational system and social features, fast became the primary way that many Internet users saved and shared bookmarks. There was something deeper going on as well, and many began to recognize something truly unique and amazing in the way that del.icio.us organized and gathered interesting and useful metrics about what’s good on the web. In the winter of 2005, it caught the attention of Yahoo! Inc. and was purchased for an undisclosed sum. Today, Joshua Schachter and his team continue to work on del.icio.us, adding new features and continuing to expand on its original ideas.
One of these original ideas was that del.icio.us should allow web and software programmers direct access to del.icio.us’ data and function. This is where the mashup comes in.
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