Delicious site if for techies?

The site, owned by Yahoo, allows people to store, tag and share bookmarks collected across the web. According to an official blog on Thursday, the top ten types of bookmarks users were making were broken down as follows:

1. news — Along with the usual faces such as BBC News and CNN, Delicious likes Slashdot, Digg, and a visualization called Newsmap.

2. blogs — These results contain a variety of lists and tools for people who want to find more to read or want to write their own blogs, including The Hype Machine and Edublogs.

3. reference — People find Delicious useful as a practical source of knowledge, hooray. Delicious users betray their nerdiness by providing specialized resources for programming and web design for many of these results.

4. wiki — Several of these results are for wiki software (which makes sense, since deciding on a software package might be the hardest thing about starting a wiki), but one of them is Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki, which looks like a handy reference.

5. restaurants — Guides for New York, London, and everywhere. Sounds good to me.

hotels — Most of these results are useful for cost-effective comparison, but a lot of Delicious people have also bookmarked Unusual Hotels of the World, Design Hotels, and Unique Hotels for Global Nomads.

6. css — Delicious' slight geeky bias means that searching for a technical topic gets you the best tutorials, documentation, and tips. And luckily, people searching for CSS probably aren't looking for anything else.

7. web 2.0 — What do people want when they search for this? I'm not sure, but they can find all kinds of things, from a how-to design style guide to The Machine is Us/ing Us. See also our 2005 blog post that attempts to answer what is web 2.0?

8. artists — Delicious' taste ranges across places to find out about artists (the-artists.org), places to buy and sell work (Etsy), and places where you can find drawings by my friends (deviantART), along with blogs and artists' organizations.

9. music — I figure people are looking for new music here, and they can find a lot of it, from Pandora to Last.fm and Musicovery, and if their searches lead to bookmarked mp3s, they can use the built-in Delicious media player to listen right away.

While there are a number of main-stream entries inside the list, blogs and wiki's are favorites of the tech community, while CSS -- the code that gives consistant style across a website -- is invariably technical.