Del.icio.us

This Service Provider combines various services into an intermediairy service. It services publishers and viewers.

The basic services is an Enabling one: it allows users to publish their bookmarks on the Internet. A bookmark consists of a title, a url, a description and a set of tags. The bookmarks are published to the entire internet under a license set by the publisher. A viewer can thus see what an individual publisher publishes.

The service aggregates the bookmarks that it is publishing and offers various services to view the bookmarks of the entire community. A free and guided search function are offered. The free search function allows to search through the tag-field of a bookmark. A user can also define a subscription on one or more tags. The predefined search function includes: the latest published bookmarks, the most active tags, todays most popular bookmarks, todays most popular tags, related tags, bookmarks per author. One can subscribe to feeds of all these predefined queries.

Web 2.0 analysis:

• Structured MicroContent - YES, bookmarks. A permalink is however lacking;
• Data Outside - NO, there is no service to either import or subscribe to bookmark feeds. This would be useful;
• Licenses - YES, the user can set under which Creative Commons License his bookmarks are published;
• Feeds Galore - YES, there are a lot of feed possibilities;
• Web API’s - YES, there are several interfaces availablef;
• Desktop Integration - YES, for MacOS-X there is a client that uses the Web API’s;
• Single Identity - NO;
• MicroWeb - NO, the service does not integrate with other services;
• Wild MicroContent - NO;

tags: microcontent; type; bookmark; tele-service; enabling; publishing;