Web Worker Daily

My Mother Married a Felon says: May 16th, 2007 6:08am

I use Google Bookmarks; it’s just easy because I also use the Google personalized homepage. I only started using it a few weeks ago though, before that when I wanted to keep a website address accessible from anywhere I would email it to myself (how lame is that?)

datter says: May 16th, 2007 6:28am

I am very surprised blinklist.com isn’t in there somewhere. It’s a great service that I’ve used for a long time now. It’s even incorporated on my blog almost as an aside type feature.

http://www.blinklist.com
http://www.datter.com

Ric says: May 16th, 2007 6:57am

delicious del.icio.us … can’t quite get into Google for anything, which makes me a strange Web Worker, I know.

I use the FF extension, and have replaced FF bookmarks with del.icio.us so my favourites are wherever I am. Anyone who knows me know I’m big on “for:” and “via:” as lubricants for the attention economy

matthew says: May 16th, 2007 7:18am

email. sometimes you don’t want to share your bookmarks with the world, just a select few.

Julia Demchenko says: May 16th, 2007 7:51am

del.icio.us helped me start to bookmark. I was doing that really rare before and used *favorites*.

Chris says: May 16th, 2007 7:57am

I use del.icio.us almost exclusively for bookmarking and finding new content. I honestly don’t think I’ve even visited most of those other services mentioned.

Erik Mallinson says: May 16th, 2007 7:58am

Ma.gnolia. The groups feature is terrific.

Jeff O'Hara says: May 16th, 2007 8:06am

My Tumblr blog is my new place to book mark. It gives me a much richer bookmarking experience than that of Del.icio.us.

http://zemote.tumblr.com
-Jeff

Fernando says: May 16th, 2007 8:29am

I belong to the dying group that uses the browser to store bookmarks. That, and Google Browser Sync to keep Windows and Linux together. It’s just faster, simpler, and I have no desire to share my bookmarks anyway.

Christian Tietze says: May 16th, 2007 8:37am

If they only track the clicks for their buttons, I don’t consider these graphs representative.
I use the del.icio.us bookmarking extension for firefox and have a page bookmarked just after a CTRL+D.
As soon as they don’t track that, they don’t track power users of del.icio.us — and wasn’t the extension released in February/March this year? That’ll explain the flattening curve. Less people need such a service anymore when they use the extension.

Mike says: May 16th, 2007 8:43am

I use del.icio.us to archive any sites I think I might want to visit again, and I keep my most visited sites bookmarked locally in Firefox. I also use Blinklist to “Quick Blink” articles or sites when I don’t have time to read them right away but want to come back to read them later.

Sara says: May 16th, 2007 9:56am

Stumbleupon for sure! I tried Digg, Delicious, and Reddit and still use them occasionally, but Stumbleupon has been the most enjoyable and valuable for me. For things that I’ll use only temporarily or in a given day/week, I use Google. (Warning: SU gets addictive.) :)

Deepak says: May 16th, 2007 10:31am

del.icio.us all the way. I’ve triedmuch used every service on the planet, and I always come back to del.icio.us. The updated Firefox plugin makes like a lot easier. I also use a combo of Clipmarks and Google Notebook (mostly the latter) to capture text/notes which I might want for reference purposes.

Now if only Yahoo would update the del.icio.us interface, and make the RSS feeds work better. I would love to use del.icio.us in conjuction with Tumblr, but it doesn’t quite work properly

Sergio says: May 16th, 2007 10:43am

Delicious. Once you get the browser extensions and figure out how to cleverly tag your bookmarks, you cannot live without it. Maybe the other services have similar features but I didn’t bother trying.

Lars Fischer says: May 16th, 2007 11:48am

del.icio.us

Brian Purkiss says: May 16th, 2007 12:59pm

I use favorites and del.icio.us

KNK says: May 16th, 2007 3:23pm

Del.icio.us, I used to use Google Sync but it wasn’t as stable as the FF extension for Del.icio.us.

Mark Beattie says: May 16th, 2007 5:10pm

Yojimbo! It syncs (kinda) across machines using .Mac, and allows bookmarks to be quickly tagged and arranged with smart folders. On top of that, if I’m researching something like a new speaker system I can create a note which is essentially a rich-text editor page and literally drag links into it as well as images straight off a web page, chunks of text etc, and then tag it. It’s the goods.

Mike says: May 16th, 2007 7:14pm

http://www.blinklist.com is the only service I use. ;)

Stephen Collins says: May 16th, 2007 8:27pm

I’m so deeply embedded in del.icio.us that I can barely contemplate stepping out of it. I use their excellent Firefox add-on and don’t have any bookmarks stored browser-side any more, except for a very few instant-access to tools and integration buttons in my Bookmarks Toolbar.

I use several Google tools otherwise (Reader, Calendar, iGoogle), but I don’t think I’ve ever added a Google bookmark - which is perhaps a little off.

I’ve tried ma.gnolia, and love its features, but the parallel processing of adding both del.icio.us AND ma.gnolia bookmarks was overload, so I dropped it.

I know it’s totally unnecessary, but if I could have a widget that let me add to del.icio.us, ma.gnolia and Google Bookmarks all at once, and manage them, I’d probably use it.

Judi Sohn says: May 17th, 2007 7:22am

I’m in a similar position, Stephen. I dabble in other tools, but it always comes back to del.icio.us for me. The Firefox add-on sealed the deal months ago. It’s just too convenient to save a bookmark in one browser, and have it available in another.

michael says: May 17th, 2007 9:37am

I use simpy.com for the main reason that you can set the default behavior to “private”. I love having ready access to my bookmarks from anywhere while not letting everyone else know what I’m working on this week.

Andrew Parker says: May 17th, 2007 1:31pm

Terrible data source. AddThis doesn’t track usage of “Ctrl-D” bookmarking. In-Browser bookmarking is thus GROSSLY underrepresented. It’s so bad, this post should be updated/redacted.

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Leonid Mamchenkov says: May 25th, 2007 2:39am

I used to be a heavy del.icio.us user. Then something turned me off a few times and I started wondering around. I tried Digg and Google Bookmarks for a while. But they weren’t what I was looking for. During the last few month, I’m using GMail for my bookmarks (with Google Toolbar thingy called “Send to GMail”), and it seems that I’ll stay wit hit for some time.

I realized that scattering my web knowledge over several services makes it way too hard to locate. Part of my web knowledge comes through email anyway (Google Alerts, some feeds, links from friends and co-workers, etc), so there won’t be any way to get away from it. Integrating the rest of my stuff into Gmail turned out to be easy, and I like it is now. Filters, labels and Google Search make it too good of a package to try something else. At least for now. :)

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Laura says: May 30th, 2007 8:08am

del.icio.us via the Firefox extension — just what I need — I really like the way it will suggest tags based on how others have tagged a site/page — and I pull them into my TypePad blog’s sidebar — perfect