Drew asks — once again — ‘which social web tools we couldn’t live without?’
Last year, apparently, my answers were Bloglines, BlinkList, and the Opera RSS reader.
Eh? Blink what?
A year down the line, it’s:
Bookmarks — del.icio.us — remains simple and feature-light, and all the better for it. I’ve flirted with almost every other social bookmark site there is, but keep coming back.
RSS — Google Reader — I also like Vienna on the Mac, but the lack of synchronisation between work and home means time wasted clicking through posts I’ve already read elsewhere. I wish Bloglines worked just a little better, because I feel guilty dumping it for a Google product.
Social Network — Facebook — well, everyone else is there. Eagerly awaiting the next big thing, though: something that offers open access, levels of intimacy and which is designed for grown-ups.
Blogging — Blogdesk — offline blog editing without (a) silly proprietary mark-up elements, (b) complexity or © the need to spend any money.
Other — Google Docs seems like the best way to share documents; TripAdvisor is fantastic for holiday information; Amazon for music, book and videogame suggestions; YouTube for fun; Tumblr collates my various activities into one page that’s of no use to anyone but me. Plus the obligatory brief flirtation with some new thing every day.
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Very interesting.….I recall around this time last year having a good debate at Beers and Innovation about whether MySpace would lose its dominance in future
(for the record I said it would :)
What I can predict is in another year most of this list will have new companies, but the basic comms involved — RSS, SocNet, Bookmarking — (ie various types of aggregation) will remain.