Bookmarking Services on the Web
August 12, 2008
By: Brad Andersohn
Author's Website: http://www.activerain.com
How do website readers prefer to share stories they find with friends? I just wrote a post here a few days ago comparing AddThis.com to ShareThis.com and got some really great responses. Now there’s even a site AddToAny.com.
I found it interesting that the place I get poked, super poked, hugged, and vampire bites from, was actually the Most Popular Social Bookmarking Service on the Web according to ShareThis.com.
Who you ask? Find out for yourself.
You’ll find some interesting facts about bookmarking services and what is the leading #1 website readers prefer to share stories and links and how they choose to do it.
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Comments
4 Comments so far
David G from Zillow.com on August 15, 2008 9:48 am
That’s a great piece of link-bait from RWW.
This week Fred Wilson (an early investor in delicious) was blogging about how some geek technologies won’t cross the chasm and go mainstream and he used delicious as an example. Clearly tagging’s 15 minutes of fame has passed (it was more like a year; 2005.) E-mail and Socnets look like they are here to stay though. I also think it’s fascinating how quickly Technorati is becoming redundant and how tenaciously Digg is hanging onto its popularity.
Here’s Fred’s post: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/08/is-geek-tech-go.html
Brad Andersohn on August 15, 2008 5:55 pm
David - I’m out the door but will check out Freds Blog when I return. I was under the impression email was on it’s way out as I have teens who have tried to convince me of this, however the pie in the sky says different.
Zoltan Szendro on August 15, 2008 9:17 pm
Email definitely rules for direct sharing or even as a small group sharing tool. In our own ShareThis implementation, email is #1 as well. Also on YouTube for example, the first link in sharing below the video is email. I guess people still forward videos to a selected group of people (who they know share the same interest or sense of humor) vs a loosely coupled group like Facebook “friends” . So keep your email spam filter up to date. Email is still very important.
Brad Andersohn on August 19, 2008 4:02 pm
Email is the paper trail, how can it ever go away? At least that’s what my son the Jr. Cal Poly student says!!