Open Thread: Where do you Bookmark?
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.