How social are you?
I’m interested in social bookmarking sites, both to use and to provide services for. They’ve been around for some time and some are obviously better than others.
There’s Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Technorati and so on. Which of them are you using? Some other service? At Jonas dagar I provide Technorati tags for each entry, as you can see. I’m not sure how many people find their way here by using them, but I could check it up.
I provide feeds for new entries, for categories, for comments and for specific entries. But I don’t have any “Favourite this blog on Technorati” links or chicklets to Digg and del.icio.us. I ping Autopinger, nyligen.se (Swedish) and Twingly (Swedish).
Are you missing something you use in other places? Or is it liberating you don’t have to see small colorful images linking to weird places?
I hate “small colorful images linking to weird places”… For me it's better to choose what I want to be able to do and install browser addons like I have for Google Reader and had for del.icio.us (but since I don't use del.icio.us I uninstalled it again). I don't use any social bookmarking sites, but I do use bloggar.se tags and ping nyligen.se etc.
That's good to know.
I'm not interested in having my posts on the Digg front page. I've read that Digg users spend on average 3.6 seconds on a page, and I don't think they'll find my place useful in that short time. StumbleUpon users are probably even worse.
What want is to give my regular readers the tools they need to enjoy my blog. I'm also interested in social bookmarking in general, since I don't know if they're useful to people.
I’ve only really tried digga.se and farskpressad.se and it seems to me that very few people are actually using them. Stories very rarely get more that a couple of votes, and I don’t seem to get any significant amount of traffic from there. On the other hand I now have a script posting stuff to there, so I guess I’ll keep on doing it.
I use del.icio.us a lot to tag stuff I think I may possibly want to return to later (including permalinks to all blog entries I write comments on). This is an amazing improvement on old-style bookmarks. Couldn’t live without it. I very seldom use it to look at other people’s tags, though, so I don’t really use the social part of it.
Hello Hans,
I wonder how many people actually use the social parts of these services when you get enough functionality without them. To have access to bookmarks at any computer is sensible, but I haven’t started using del.icio.us.
- Jonas