Top Social Bookmarking Sites: The Horrors of Digging
Top Social Bookmarking Sites: Digg vs Reddit vs Stumbleupon
Before I give you the official rankings for the top social bookmarking sites, let me just say that Digg is the worst place on the Internet.
If you weren't a member of the cool clique back in high school and wish to relive the rejection horrors of those years, just start Digging. More then likely it will be an even worse experience the second time around.
I joined Digg a few months ago and naively assumed that my fellow Diggsters valued serious news.
Boy was I ever wrong!
The place is worse than Wikipedia.
There have been at least a dozen times when I was the first to submit some important breaking news along the lines of “Iran Sinks Carrier USS Ronald Reagan” (but factual news) and not a second dugg was ever to be seen. Yet members of the Digg in-crowd can post the most lame stories (e.g., Buzzer the Fattest Dog in Rapid City Tips the Scales at 124 lbs!) and within minutes 1500 others have dugg the submission.
I'm afraid that I will never get that place.
If you're into business oriented news, here is the list of top social bookmarking sites.
6. Technorati
5. Stumbleupon
3. Ycombinator
2. Dailyhub
1. Reddit
I find that you can quickly get the valuable news from the top three sites. What I like about them is that they leave the high school style politics out of the selection process. There's actually no need to bother with the others.
#1 on Reddit when I clicked the link above: "Fying Spaghetti Monster hits the bigtime".
#1 on Digg when I clicked the link above: "Bush receives early holiday gift: copy of Constitution"
You be the judge
Posted by: Matt | November 16, 2007 at 01:06 PM
Digg is AA (Aspergers Anonymous).
Posted by: Former Digger | November 16, 2007 at 02:33 PM
There's a great deal of politics at play on digg which over time becomes very annoying.
I will check out the sites you list.
Posted by: Shaun | November 16, 2007 at 11:40 PM
Thanks for the list! I hadn't heard of the #2 or #3 but am definitely going to check them out. And I agree with you that it's unfortunate that these sites can't really do any quality control. Maybe they'll figure out a way in the future?
Posted by: Rebecca | December 06, 2007 at 10:54 AM
Hi
I am your regular reader You have nice approach.
Would you please review http://www.Tagza.com - it young and funky new Social Bookmarking web site.
Thanks
Posted by: Auto Bookmarking | December 17, 2007 at 04:31 AM
Peter why further promote the Digg site with a huge Digg button? Shouldn't you switch it to summit else?
Posted by: Paul | December 29, 2007 at 06:24 AM