RSSSocial Bookmarking sites
14 May 2010 2 Comments
I’ve always been happy using my browser bookmarks to store useful or interesting websites; efficiently organising them into folders. Then I started using Digg. Digg was a good way to remember blog posts and tutorials I found useful, keeping them separate from the sites I liked, as well as being a nice way of letting the author know that I liked what they’d written.
Since then I’ve been recommended a few others, here’s what I think of them all anyway.
Delicious
I found Delicious to incredibly irritating to use – the tags might make it flexible, but you can’t put anything in to folders, or keep sections separated. It’s also far too blue so becomes a really tedious site to look at after a while.
It’s good at
- Tagging your links with topics so they are easy to find
It’s bad at
- Showing screenshots - appear to be some on the home page, but none of the links I’ve added seem to have them
- Exploring new things – I find the whole tag structure quite awkward personally
- Being interesting – every time I’m on the site that blue makes me want to kill myself
Best for
- Argh……..driving you mad with the same blue over and over again!!!!
Digg
I’ve been using Digg for a long time – I found it to be quite a friendly, nice site to use. Seems to be a good community, and it’s easy to search categories to find something you are interested in.
It’s good at
- Adding blog posts and tutorials
- Telling you how popular the link is
- Find interesting articles – Digg feels quite like a news hub – it shows you latest headlines and has good main category sections.
It’s bad at
- Organising and finding your links – everything is just in chronological order
Best for
- Finding and adding interesting news articles and blog posts
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon I quite like – it’s especially easy to add sites you like, but the content other users have added seems to be a lot more juvenile compared the the articles and blog posts in Digg.
It’s good at
- The StumbleUpon tool bar – Its excellent at just quickly adding a site you like, or even one you don’t – you don’t even have to leave the site you are on
- As well as that you can just view random websites with the ‘Stumble!’ button
- Lets you know if you are the first person to add something, and shows you how popular a link is
It’s bad at
- Part of the problem with the ‘StumbleUpon!’ button is that a lot of people add a lot of rubbish, so you can see an awful lot of rubbish, as well as ‘work unsafe’ stuff before you see something good
Best for
- Finding and adding interesting, cool and weird sites and images
So…
StumbleUpon and Digg are both sites I like, with nice features, but Delicious? I really think I might just be biased against that blue.
Anyway, to be honest I’m not massively interested in the social aspect of the bookmarking sites. I like having somewhere where I can keep the things I want to remember, so I think I’m going to stick to the handy Xmarks plugin so I can view my favourite bookmarked sites on any computer, then continue to add interesting posts and things I like to Digg.
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May 14, 2010 @ 11:17:57
what’s you user name over @ Digg so I can be nosey about what you’ve found
May 14, 2010 @ 11:24:54
Sure – mostly designy stuff: eviltwinisdead