Open Thread: Where do you Bookmark?
May 16th, 2007 (5:52am) Anne Zelenka 27 CommentsTweet This
Bookmarking widget supplier Add This! has launched a trends page showing what services we use to store and share links of interest. Using data aggregated over all their widget accounts, they can make a guess at overall bookmarking trends and market share. The Add This blog discusses current trends shown in the charts below.
As seen in the chart above showing month to month changes in bookmarking via the Add This! widget, Google’s trend upwards is matched by a flattening of del.icio.us usage, while Favorites (local bookmarking in the browser) has decreased from over 20% of bookmarks to less than 15%.
Bookmarking services besides the most popular ones currently account for 25% of bookmarks made using the Add This! widget. This category includes services like Blue Dot, Mag.nol.ia, and Diigo.
How do you store and share links? Local browser bookmarks, del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks, social news sites like Digg or Reddit, something else? Are you satisfied with your options, or do you need something more or different than what’s already offered?
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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?)
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
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
email. sometimes you don’t want to share your bookmarks with the world, just a select few.
del.icio.us helped me start to bookmark. I was doing that really rare before and used *favorites*.
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.
Ma.gnolia. The groups feature is terrific.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.) :)
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
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.
del.icio.us
I use favorites and del.icio.us
Del.icio.us, I used to use Google Sync but it wasn’t as stable as the FF extension for Del.icio.us.
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.
http://www.blinklist.com is the only service I use. ;)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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