Weblog entry #150 for Steve
Would people like to see Digg.com links upon stories on this site? Or other links such as the del.icio.us bookmarking service?
I've been in two minds about this for a while:
- A) People can bookmark / submit stories if they wish to already.
- B) If links are included then we're "endorsing" the service(s).
Still the topic has been raised a couple of times via mail and messages, so I'm now looking for a consensus. Comment if you care strongly one way or the other - majority opinion rules ..
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So I vote no.
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IE7 comes with something like that I believe.
Opera has a feature like that
There are a lot of rss feeds here.
I vote no.
I dont use them online bookmark services and I think links/icons to them will clutter the clean interface of d-a.org
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I'd been looking at the bookmarking sites for work.
Reddit has a certain simplicity around it, that makes it my favourite so far. Although DiGG has far more users (if we believe Alexa).
But I'd envisage it being something people would only want if they had an account with such a service, so something that one enabled if you use that service. As such it could be out of the way of those not interested.
I'd accept that a browser plug-in is a better method for doing this from the end user perspective, but from the site owners perspective, he can get more traffic, and ensure the correct URLs are used in promoting pages, if they add the buttons server side.
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The problem with buttons like "digg this", is that people will ask for one for del.icio.us, one for <lastest trendy website>
People who want to do that can use bookmarklets.
People who don't get to see "digg this" "del.icio.us" buttons all over the place :/
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I'd definitely go for "no" myself for the same reasons expressed here. I do use digg every now and then when I have a lot of time to waste (read: "tired of working on a friday afternoon").
However, the extra clutter provided by "digg this" and "wobble that" links isn't exactly welcome from my standpoint.
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Thanks for checking with the site users about this, Steve.
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In my opinion this site is a tech site not a marketing place. I understand the added traffic from the bookmarking services but when I found this site I was looking for something serious. Not some buzz. People here know what they do and it's what I'm looking for.
Sorry for my poor English, I had more things to say but I don't find the words now ;)
Eric
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