1) WHAT IS DELICIOUS?

• Delicious is the biggest collection of bookmarks in the universe. The tastiest book marks on the web.
• All your bookmarks are in one place which can be accessed from any computer at anytime.
• Can share bookmarks with friends or see what your friends are bookmarking too.
• Delicious has a “hotlist” on its homepage and a “recent” and “popular” pages, which allow the website to become a conveyor of internet memes and trends.
• You can also set the bookmark with more then one tag to organize your pages and to find the bookmark faster

2) DELICIOUS

• del.icio.us use to be the domain hack, which now turned into Delicious.com in 2007 when the site was redesigned then officially launched in 2008.
• The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.
• Delicious is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

3)BY THE NUMBERS

• By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique URLs bookmarked. (Source: wikipedia.com)
• Delicious is 4.63% of the widget distribution.(Source: trends.builtwith.com)

4) BEST PRACTICES

• Learn how to tag before you start using delicious.
• “The selfish style. We tag only according to our individual context. Our tags have personal meaning (only for our own benefit), are irrelevant to other users and difficult to place in the social context of the del.icio.us network of users.
• The friendly type. We tag for the people we know: friends, colleagues, project partners, etc. This style is typical both for large groups and for small ones. The social benefit is great and the motivation lies in belonging to a group, in the desire to share with others what you know, to contribute to online content.
• The altruist type. We use tags as general as possible and as many as we can for a resource. We try, using key words, to describe as objectively/realistically as possible the resource that we post, so that it is of interest to the great majority of users of the most popular social bookmarking service. The social benefit is huge because it involves generosity. “Recovering” information is easy because we understand the notes attached to the post and we are able to interpret the tags. Motivation is low because it involves a lot of work and no benefit.
• The popular style. Popular tagging is used in order to get more views. There is absolutely no social benefit. Such tagging is considered spam (we find resources marked with top10, sex, interesting, etc.). This tagging procedure is considered artificial and is disapproved by the rest of the users because it reflects the tendency of some marketers to get a better position in the lists of results posted by search engines”

These different tagging styles were founded from www.scirbd.com.

5) UNIQUE FEATURES

• You can tag each bookmark to organize your bookmarks and folders.
• Safe way to stay organize and you do not even have to do it yourself, Delicious does.
• You can also set the bookmark with more then one tag to organize your pages and to find the bookmark faster.