21
2006
Indian social bookmarking sites take off & it’s a rush out there already..
I have been approached by four social bookmarking sites for reviews; however instead of writing individual reviews, it makes sense to do a sweeping scan of this entire space, hence this round up post. It has taken me multiple sessions spread over a week to put together this review.
If the essence of Web2.0 is social sharing, websites like Digg, Del.icio.us etc are at the forefront of this new web paradigm. They are popular because they serve as antidotes to the internet’s biggest problem – its unbridled vastness and ever growing nature. These sites serve two specific purposes- (a) aggregating the internet content through shared bookmarking and (b) filtering that content, to isolate the most popular amongst the shared bookmarks.
A bunch of Indian social bookmarking sites have sprung up and I think, they are slowly gaining traction. I assert this because, many of the reviews that I write on Webyantra get bookmarked on these sites and contribute fairly significant traffic to this blog. Almost all the sites that are being reviewed here (except IndiaMarks) have adopted Digg’s basic design as a benchmark, with traces of innovative features peppered here and there. In my opinion, there are three distinct factors (as below), that are crucial to the success of a social bookmarking site.
1) the content on the site,
2) how the site’s design aids discoverability and findability of that content,
3) and the site’s aesthetics, usability, look/feel etc.
This review will attempt to explore how the sites fare along these dimensions.
[more on WebYantra....]
Indian social bookmarking sites take off & it’s a rush out there already..
Originally from www.webyantra.net by
Hi….
the article is pretty good….
I bookmark on to indianpad,indiagram and humdigg
I would like to comment a few things
1. Indian pad is definitely the best,though most of the articles are masala based.
2.Hum digg is abt ‘hum’ the inidans digging the stories… not necessarily mean that its only abt the indian stories…. its about all the stories that are of relevance to indians…. (or so the bookmarker thinks..)
On the whole i like the simple interface of humdigg and it has lot of scope for improvement and compared to other bookmarking sites… it has very few porn,masala links and stories are comparitively better commented up on….
indiamarks and forums of india are perhaps the worst of the list
News cola and put vote yet to prove their mettle…. But so far the stories seem to repeat in most of the bookmarking sites….
another struggling new site is
http://indianbytes.com/ to sum it up……..
Chandu…
Thanks for covering IndiaGram in your article. I agree that we need to work more on the discoverability, but it is encouraging to see various bloggers and reviewers refering to our side and have mostly positive things to say about it (http://indiagram.com/tags/indiagram). We always welcome healthy criticism and are willing to implement any interesting features suggested by the users. If you do have any specific suggestions, please do share with us.
Thanks,
Thanks All….
Thanks to Amit for the original article on Webyantra.
I have noticed many Social bookmarking sites - best one i liked is indianpad.com
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