The del.icio.us web site is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003, but since it came part of Yahoo! in December 2005 it has gotten a lot bigger. It has been suggested that the site was sold for somewhere between $15-30 million US dollars

It is mouth-watering using del.icio.us and at the same time its is also turning back the clock to the early days of Yahoo. In the early days of the internet, around 1996, Yahoo was an online directory with the editors reviewing sites for free. Yahoo is now a portal with a directory where you can get a listing for free or for a fee.

Why pay people to review site when you can get people to vote for sites? This concept is not new - that’s what the Open Directory does. However the open directory is Web 1.0 slow and run by, and in the nicest possible way, geeks. del.icio.us is Web 2.0 fun, fast(er) and Firefox based

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