Tagging and Delicous

Tagging is when one can write something related to a picture, like football if the picture shows a football player, and hyperlinking that word. Flickr uses these words to help in their different searches for pictures like the football player, to make it helpful and easier for someone to search and explore a certain topic. flickr enables the tagging of pictures, facebook allows the tagging of pictures and videos and Delicous allows one to tag bookmarks. Delicous is a social bookmarking website where people tag websites and articles on the web. It was created by a man called Joshua Schacter in 2003 and after catching the eye of yahoo, it was bought by them in 2005 and for $20 million. It has 5 million users and has 150 million bookmarked URL's that have nbeen contributed to the website.