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A Truly del.icio.us API

Who’s that with the catchy URL that’s getting all the clicks?

Why, it’s del.icio.us! No matter where you are on the "Web 2.0" lash or backlash, the pervasive influence of this little bookmark aggregator can’t be denied. On the surface, it doesn’t do much more than the PHP tool I wrote back in 1999 to collect my bookmarks in a centralized location. So, you may ask (as I have asked myself repeatedly) why should I care, apart from the appe.al of spe.lli.ng ever.yth.ing like th.is? Well, the devil is in the details.

A few crucial features bear the responsibility for del.icio.us’s success. Most basically, it is a "social bookmarking" site — not social in the sense that you get to know whether your fellow users are Beck fans (although you might), but rather in that everybody’s bookmarks are in one big pool together. You can view your own or someone else’s. Or everybody’s.

by Paul Adams 14 Feb 2006

Paul Adams is Webmonkey’s resident acronympho, covering the likes of PHP, DNS, and SOAP with startling aplomb.

Full Story: http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/06/07/index2a.html

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