Guide Note

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site founded by Joshua Schachter. The service is like a web-based version of an internet browser's bookmarks or favorites. Users have the ability to save and share their favorite links from around the internet.¹

To make it easy to organize the links, Del.icio.us also includes the ability to tag each item. The service also allows the setup of a friend network, allowing a person to see what his or her friends are bookmarking.²

The site was moved to Delicious.com on July 31, 2008. The Delicious team stated that the reason for the move was to help people find the website by preventing confusion on where the periods should be. This move came with the launch of the new Delicious site, Delicious 2.0.^{1 2}

Fast Facts

1. Founder: Joshua Schachter¹
2. Headquaters: Sunnyvale, California¹
3. Founded: November, 2003¹
4. Yahoo acquisition price rumored to be around 10 to 15 million³

Major Changes

Del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo! in December 2005. In September of 2007 the site announced it was developing Delicious 2.0. The Delicious 2.0 site launched on July 31, 2008. It features a new interface, a new name (Delicious.com) and claims to be "faster" and "easier to learn."^{1 2}