Comments on: Top Ten Favourite Social Media Sites

By: Gabriella Sannino

Gabriella Sannino — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:30:16 +0000

Maybe things in the UK are different but the way you have them set up is vastly different than here in the US. Well my humble opinion. Here we add Google Bookmarks, Delicious, Digg, MySpace,Facebook, Furl, Yahoo, MyWeb, StumbleUpon, Reddit
Newsvine, Live, Technorati, Twitter, Yahoo Bookmarks myAOL, Ask, Fark, Slashdot, Propeller (Netscape), Mixx, Multiply, Simpy, Blogmarks, Diigo, Faves (Bluedot), Spurl Link-a-Gogo, Mister Wong, FeedMeLinks, Backflip, Magnolia, Seganlo, Netvouz ,Tailrank, Blinklist maybe not in that order but… Great list though always nice to see what the other side is doing.

By: zowoco

zowoco — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:28:48 +0000

I judge everything online by its user interface. If a company can’t take a little time to provide a neat pleasant user experience then why are they in business? Because they soon won’t be. Some social media like Digg go to great lenths to provide a decent look, others like furl and del.icio.us are basic in the extreme and provide no pleasant experience for me. Give me coherent well structured graphics, clear instructions, clear links, photos, pointers, tags: look at Amazon.com, it could be less of a muddle but at least if I want books or DVDs I can quickly find a tag to get me to that page. Many social bookmark sites leave me wondering what, if anything, they offer, and what, if anything, I as visitor am expected to do! If its not immediately clear, within 3 seconds I’m off round the world wide web again: there’s plenty more to look at!

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:34:00 +0000

@Zoobie - cheers for stopping by, nowpublic is my seceret sauce exposed - if your going to try any of them out then give that a serious twirl.

@Dave - I know but I’m hooked and afraid of the cold turkey existence that lays outside of a non-sm life.

By: Dave la Rave

Dave la Rave — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:45:49 +0000

If your not careful this social media sites will take over your life; in a non-monetisation kind of way too.

By: Zoobie Joy

Zoobie Joy — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:37:09 +0000

These are great looking sites..^^ I have to admit that it’s first time for me to hear some of these sites but I’m interested to try all of them out..^^

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:42:46 +0000

@Jordan - it has a simple feel to it which fits well with a simple guy like myself

@Gary - I guess it all comes down to your geographic location in how you spell things - we use the ‘u’ in favourite here in the UK.

@Jay - These are my findings, I’m pretty sure if you were to run your own it wouldn’t be a mirror image of my results. That’s the beauty of sm sites they bring different appeals to everyone.

I have never had much joy with Propeller traffic but I still submit / vote on it because one day it may well deliver.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:27:52 +0000

I think there are some good social media sites you’re missing, maybe del.icio.us? But then again, there’s a few I didn’t know about so thanks for that.

Also, I agree that the Reddit usability seemed a little too high, but that’s just my opinion. And how come Propeller was so low on the traffic ranking? I’m just curious…

Jay

By: Gary Lee

Gary Lee — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:22:06 +0000

. . . ever wonder if “Favourite” gets more search traffic or “Favorite” and will that determine the future of spelling? . . great post by the way . . . hope to see you on IM later . . need to ask you something

By: Jordan Kasteler

Jordan Kasteler — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:35:52 +0000

Good post. I think Reddit got way too high of a score on usability though.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:37:40 +0000

Allen thanks for the comment.

I have added to my post that I would like to see similar posts appearing then perhaps we can find a central hub to run a poll on the most effective of the sm sites and discuss the how’s and whys.