Social bookmarking links gone wild
I noticed on dailydomainer.com today the site’s veritable cornucopia of social bookmarking links at the bottom of single-post pages. The sheer amount of them—all in one row—baffled me.
Are there really that many social bookmarking sites?
Do they really do well enough to merit keeping them open?
I realize the explosive success of Digg and Newsvine and Del.icio.us and Reddit (of which I only use the first two). I guess social bookmarking is yet another Internet phenomenon that everyone is trying to wrangle and profit from.
It would be cool to write a social bookmarking web application. PHP is used for almost all of them, with Ruby for the others and maybe something less popular for some others. I wonder if any of them are done in Scheme or Smalltalk? Hmm.
In other news, classes start tomorrow and I don’t have any books yet. It’s my last semester of undergrad, and I’ve spent more on books this semester than I have for the past five. That tells you something about history and English classes, eh?
Kian Ann:
Hey Colin, I personally think that there are too many social bookmarking sites out there already, and it would be really tough to stand out, especially when some of them like Digg and Reddit are getting so much publicity.
I guess to strike it big, we have to look at “what’s next”, rather than copying what is already in the trend. Digg started over 2 years ago, isn’t it?
19 January 2007, 1:42 am