Everybody loves Digg. I love Digg. I watch Diggnation (which is pathetically nerdy-but-cool), and I have been digging into Digg.
But before Digg, Flickr, and Furl, there was Del.icio.us.
Del.icio.us was the first social bookmarking site and is often considered the founder of the user-attributed tag. Instead of saving your “favorites??? and “bookmarks??? to your browser, Del.icio.us allows web surfers to quickly save their favorite sites to a common, portable, space. When you add a bookmark, a window pops up and asks you to add a description, keywords, and a rating.
What made Del.icio.us successful is the facility with which all the registered users could share their bookmarks. After sharing your bookmark, Del.icio.us would aggregate the top sites and pages that were saved, creating a “best of??? list by day and by mentions.
Furl.net was the second social bookmarking site and added a nicer user interface. Both tools have developed toolbars for IE and Firefox in order to make the collecting, sorting, and ranking of these bookmarks easier and more convenient.
Yahoo! bought Del.icio.us last December, 2005.
