Wiley del.icio.us Mashups 978-0-470-09776-2 ユーザーズマニュアル
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Web 2.0 and del.icio.us
There is renewed excitement in the web world these days, among web developers and the public
in general. Many new ideas are taking hold, and a lot of old ideas are being reinvented. It appears
that the web community is ready to move past the era of the dot-com bomb and continue to
explore the possibilities of the web more eagerly and openly than ever before. del.icio.us undeni-
ably factors into this excitement, along with many other websites, web applications, design ideas,
development concepts, and programming languages, all of which the web community is begin-
ning to lump under the umbrella term Web 2.0.
in general. Many new ideas are taking hold, and a lot of old ideas are being reinvented. It appears
that the web community is ready to move past the era of the dot-com bomb and continue to
explore the possibilities of the web more eagerly and openly than ever before. del.icio.us undeni-
ably factors into this excitement, along with many other websites, web applications, design ideas,
development concepts, and programming languages, all of which the web community is begin-
ning to lump under the umbrella term Web 2.0.
This book’s purpose is not to explain all aspects of what a Web 2.0 website is or demonstrate why
del.icio.us falls into that category. Sometimes trying to provide a clear definition of a technology
can narrow your vision of its possibilities. By its nature, del.icio.us demonstrates an inherent
desire not to be limited in functionality or purpose. Instead, del.icio.us allows itself to be accessed,
manipulated, and mixed by outsiders using a hidden underlayer of tools and techniques. This hid-
den underlayer offers an array of new possibilities for using the website, and infinitely expands on
the website’s initial purpose. This book helps you explore and make the most of these possibilities
by combining them with your own ideas about how things should work. This process is arguably
the real purpose behind Web 2.0 as a whole.
del.icio.us falls into that category. Sometimes trying to provide a clear definition of a technology
can narrow your vision of its possibilities. By its nature, del.icio.us demonstrates an inherent
desire not to be limited in functionality or purpose. Instead, del.icio.us allows itself to be accessed,
manipulated, and mixed by outsiders using a hidden underlayer of tools and techniques. This hid-
den underlayer offers an array of new possibilities for using the website, and infinitely expands on
the website’s initial purpose. This book helps you explore and make the most of these possibilities
by combining them with your own ideas about how things should work. This process is arguably
the real purpose behind Web 2.0 as a whole.
First, you need to understand some del.icio.us fundamentals. If you’re already familiar with
del.icio.us and how it works, feel free to skip ahead.
del.icio.us and how it works, feel free to skip ahead.
Enter del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a way to store and organize your web bookmarks (also commonly known as favorites),
online. It seems like a simple concept, but there is a lot more involved in it than you might think.
del.icio.us provides much more than just a way to reference a website you once visited and might
like to return to later. When you save a bookmark to del.icio.us, it becomes a part of a social network
of other del.icio.us users’ bookmarks, that in turn leads to a great deal of information about what
others find valuable and interesting on the web. You can use this data, as well as the unique way
that del.icio.us categorizes and organizes bookmarks, to discover useful and trusted sources on the
web to add to your own. You will probably find that this method of storing bookmarks is more
interesting, useful, and fun than simply keeping them in your web browser.
online. It seems like a simple concept, but there is a lot more involved in it than you might think.
del.icio.us provides much more than just a way to reference a website you once visited and might
like to return to later. When you save a bookmark to del.icio.us, it becomes a part of a social network
of other del.icio.us users’ bookmarks, that in turn leads to a great deal of information about what
others find valuable and interesting on the web. You can use this data, as well as the unique way
that del.icio.us categorizes and organizes bookmarks, to discover useful and trusted sources on the
web to add to your own. You will probably find that this method of storing bookmarks is more
interesting, useful, and fun than simply keeping them in your web browser.
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