readwriteweb anlässl. des (vermeintlichen) delicious-endes eine gute übersicht des tools und mögliche hacks, ad übersicht: Tell an everyday person they can put their bookmarks online, making them accessible from any computer via a service like Delicious, and they are often amazed. Tell them they can then see other bookmarks that other people have tagged with the same categories - and they begin to see another world, a world where the Web is social and interconnected, where we all benefit from the trails of data created by one another's everyday use of the Web.
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have some experience with turning a small Web site into Internet gold. In 2006 they sold their scrappy start-up YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion. More recently they picked an unlikely candidate to be their next Web sensation: a Yahoo castoff. The men are trying to inject new life into Delicious, a social bookmarking service that, in its time, was popular among the technorati, but failed to catch on with a broader audience.