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A non-[[hierarchical]] keyword categorization system is used on del.icio.us where users can [[Tag (metadata)|tag]] each of their bookmarks with a number of freely chosen keywords (cf. [[folksonomy]]). A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a given tag is available; for instance, the URL "http://del.icio.us/tag/wiki" displays all of the most recent links tagged "wiki". Its collective nature makes it possible to view bookmarks added by similar-minded users.

del.icio.us has a "hotlist" on its [[home page]] and "popular" and "recent" pages, which help to surface interesting content and make the website an effective conveyor of popular [[Internet phenomenon|internet meme]]s and trends. [[Pepsi]] are alleged to have got their staff to create several accounts and add the Pepsi website as a marketing method.

The website's simple [[HTML]] interface with human readable [[URL]]s, novel domain name, as well as a [[Representational State Transfer|REST]] [[application programming interface|API]] and [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] feeds for [[web syndication]], have contributed to making it one of the most popular services of its kind.