Talk:Del.icio.us

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How is this an encyclopedic article? It seems like an advertisment for this service? --Zandarx talk 02:16, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

It easily meets notability guidelines for web sites. --McGeddon 04:51, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Noted --Zandarx talk 12:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Muxway

There was a casual mention in a blog entry( http://www.kottke.org/05/04/a-whole-new-internet ) that del.icio.us used to be something called "Muxway". If someone could find out more about what Muxway was and add it to the entry, I think that would be valuable. --User:ElfWord

The wrong title template should be removed because, grammatically, even words that are not normally capitalized are capitalized when they begin a sentence, paragraph or article.

muxway was joshua's original prototype but del.icio.us is a much evolved version of muxway

[edit] Domain Hack

"Currently, del.icio.us is the most popular website using such a domain name." — what's the source for this claim? My gut feeling is that cr.yp.to is more popular, because it's been around longer and Dan Bernstein's tools (qmail, ezmlm, tinydns, etc.) are widely used. What's more, I'm not sure what the proper measure of popularity should really be. Given the nature of the site, I'll grant that del.icio.us almost surely gets more pageviews, but I have no doubt that cr.yp.to has received (and continues to receive) far more unique visitors, most of whom simply download one of the tools and never return. --Wclark 16:09, 13 October 2005 (UTC)


Arguable statement you make there. A quick look at Alexa's traffic rankings comparing the two sites shows a fairly significiant difference. Daily Reach is a measure of unique visitors. --Eddwardo 21:26, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Del.icio.us vs. del.icio.us

If there's going to be a capital letter due to technical limitations, shouldn't the name always be "del.icio.us" when referred to in the article? I don't really know what del.icio.us is, so I can't really make any decisions...

I agree completely that all references should be spelled "del.icio.us". - Fcendejas 05:13, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
In English, the first word of a sentence is always capitalized. Nohat 05:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Yes, but in other articles like bbc.co.uk, eBay and easyJet (that pop to mind) they all start with lower case letters. I would be agree to changing all the Del.icio.us to del.icio.us Ablaze 22:53, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks) says "Lowercased trademarks with no internal capitals should always be capitalized". Nohat 23:07, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
That's fair enough! But there is a load of exceptions out there. Even the example in the Manual of Style of thirtysomething doesn't obey the rule. I've search and found a few more: de.lirio.us, game.com, freedesktop.org, i'm lovin' it, gzip, group hug, i-drive, ntdetect.com. Is del.icio.us a trademark? Ablaze 17:10, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Of course "Del.icio.us" is a trademark. It is "a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by a business to uniquely identify itself and its products and services to consumers, and to distinguish the business and its products or services from those of other businesses." The MoS for trademarks entry for trademarks like this is relatively new, and many articles haven't been fixed yet. Nohat 17:57, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
The New Hacker Dictionary has something to say about this --Midnightcomm 22:06, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Who's going to write the details of delicious.com allegedly being bought and redirected after funding/purchase? http://businesslogs.com/technology/the_domain_name_game.php

Not alleged. Actual fact. Happened before the aquisition. -- Joshua

[edit] Private book marks

Could someone please clarify the text to make it clear whether collections can be made private or not?

Individual bookmarks can be made private. What do you mean by collections? Dreamyshade 18:04, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

If, by collection you mean tags, then there is currently not a way to mark a whole tag as private. Nothing is stopping you from createing a 'private' tag and then ensure all bookmarks with that tag are marked private. But there's no way to automatically do this. --Vrillusions 21:07, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Origin

how did it get its name? I mean, why not "deli.cio.us" or "de.lic.ious"?

It had to end with .us to be a valid domain name - see domain hack and del.icio.us sounds better than deli.cio.us i guess. BruceMagnus 03:17, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

No, it's del.icio.us because the founder owned icio.us already. Dreamyshade 08:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

do you have a source? could be added to main article --Vrillusions 16:46, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
"I'd registered the domain when .us opened the registry". Note that I am full of bias as the contributor of dumb cherry metaphors. Dreamyshade 08:21, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Show me the money

I started using del.icio.us recently, and I'm noting it's almost obnoxiously lacking in advertisements or any other sort of income. Does it make a profit? If so, how? If not, how did Yahoo! justify its multi-million-dollar purchase of it? Garrett Albright 00:33, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Very good question! I am wondering the same, what is their business model? Using the data for the Yahoo search engine? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.199.4.101 (talk) 17:02, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] First Attempted Edit: Added a reference to the claim that del.icio.us is the most popular service of its kind.

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That was my first attempted edit at an article. I was unsure if I should use an inline link or use a reference, so I decided to use a reference instead. If this is incorrect, I apologize and ask that someone inform me of the correct way to link to outside content. I'm still new, but I think I did it right. JMowery 20:00, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Similar browser; meta-social browser virtual scale:

Are their such websites that function as say a "Google search engine" but the only content accessed and searched through are websites similar in the virtual user state to such website as "Del.icio.us" Selath (talk) 03:23, 8 December 2007 (UTC)akcw

[edit] Del.icio.us company name changed to Delicious.

I'm currently testing the preview version of the new "Delicious" and am enjoying it. The company states that it will be known as "Delicious" instead of "Del.icio.us" from now on.

I might start a section about the new name, and hopefully someone can clean up my mistakes as I'm sure there will be one or two. JMowery 20:22, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I took the first steps and added a new section. JMowery 20:57, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks like you're doing fine as a new editor. :) Dreamyshade 21:28, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Appreciate the kind words! JMowery 23:48, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] possible new additions

the following two items would be good to the entry:

1) business model of del.icio.us

2) del.icio.us in news

it doesnt seem like an encyclopedic entry now

Gauravm1312 03:18, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, there's a lot of information in reliable news sources that isn't included in the article yet, for example in the Technology Review article or this old Guardian one. I'd write it myself but that would be even more of a conflict of interest than I already maintain on this article. :) Dreamyshade 08:37, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Enunciation of the name

I dont say delicious. I say del-issyoh dot U S. --81.105.243.17 (talk) 20:58, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Microsoft

Has there been any information in regards to what will happen to delicious if Yahoo are bought by Microsoft?--NeF (talk) 01:53, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Font of logo

Hi CoolKid1993! I was thinking that accuracy was preferred, but OK. :) The correct font is Arial, as specified in the Del.icio.us CSS file. The text should also be black, like it is on http://del.icio.us/ . Dreamyshade (talk) 05:03, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Accuracy is preferred. I was basing the SVG on the logo that was available on the article before I created the SVG version. I will fix it. CoolKid1993 (talk) 21:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
All right, looks good now. Thanks! Dreamyshade (talk) 21:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)