The success experience of Del.icio.us

As the largest bookmarking site on the current network, the rapid rise of Del.icio.us and its swift spread across the internet marks the revival of social software on the internet. Similar to flickr, Del.icio.us is a tagging site where the function of tags allows users to annotate an entry by adding words or phrases. However, in the case of Del.icio.us, the entries being annotated are bookmarks.

Del.icio.us owes much of its prominence on the web to its built-in tag accumulation feature, which increases as the number of users grows. The large collaborative framework thus formed is called "folksonomy," a classification method that updates the original web navigation model. When using it, users can tag their saved bookmarks and navigate them through an interface containing tag keywords, eliminating the need for specialized entry classification technology (taxonomy). Furthermore, if Del.icio.us aggregates information about the types of bookmarks from all its users, it can provide convenient and accessible folksonomy-based tagging services to each user based on the scale of users and the content of the tags.