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August 19, 2006

Check for bookmarks with SocialMeter

Marshall Kirkpatrick

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SocialMeter is a handy tool for checking to see how many people have tagged an URL in any of a number of social bookmarking services, including Digg and Del.icio.us. It was created by Brian Holt, of San Diego. More a project than a product, I write about it here mostly because it’s interesting and useful.

Steve Rubel says it’s “handy not just for blogs, but for brand and corporate sites too.” 3spots, who writes a great blog by the way, created the bookmarklet on the SocialMeter page. I ported that bookmarklet into the metabookmarklet system Blummy (search for socialmeter).

The Digg search could be especially useful as a quick way to prevent duplicate submissions, though Digg search is difficult so I wouldn’t depend on it. It would be great if there was an RSS feed available. I may try to create one using Dapper, another service I profiled here last week.

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  1. Erik Kalviainen

    August 19th, 2006 at 6:12 pm

    It’s alright, but I think I still prefer to use the individual sites (del.icio.us, technorati) straight up.

  2. Priceheat

    August 19th, 2006 at 6:45 pm

    I love simple things like this.

    Well done!

  3. NeoTechie

    August 19th, 2006 at 7:20 pm

    You are always welcomed in New York.

    ~NeoTechie

  4. Brian

    August 19th, 2006 at 9:31 pm

    Hey, thanks for the link Marshall. Enjoy!

  5. Anshul

    August 19th, 2006 at 10:52 pm

    A nice project with little use though.

  6. Save him please!

    August 19th, 2006 at 11:19 pm

    Please help this plant.
    He only wants to survive.
    Make a good thing, and save him.
    Or at least tell your buddies about him.
    God bless you.

    http://www.savetheplant.com

  7. Arjun

    August 20th, 2006 at 1:31 am

    techcrunched?

  8. Allen

    August 20th, 2006 at 8:30 am

    Pretty darn good site. I posted a few suggestions for them on my link on my name above.

  9. 3spots

    August 20th, 2006 at 9:40 am

    Thanks! :D
    Congrats for your party, that’s how good parties finish.

  10. Sam

    August 20th, 2006 at 11:24 am

    Wow, this is awesome. I hope they add an RSS feed soon.

  11. Lelia Katherine Thomas

    August 20th, 2006 at 5:05 pm

    I thought this was really cool until I tried it. I know for a fact that my site has been linked 27 times on del.icio.us, but it said 0. The only one it pulled up was Google links.

  12. Brian

    August 20th, 2006 at 6:43 pm

    Lelia, Sorry about that. The site was simultaneously TechCrunched, Digged, and Delicioused so Delicious temporarily blocked Socialmeter’s IP due to the massive traffic. I’ve made made several changes that prevent the IP from being blocked.

  13. Bokar

    August 20th, 2006 at 8:49 pm

    still does not work for delicious

  14. Michael

    August 21st, 2006 at 5:26 am

    anshul — little use? what do you mean
    marshall, very handy for our line of work — thanks for this

  15. kevin

    August 21st, 2006 at 6:07 am

    I created Tagground.com a few months back - its a site that provides similar url searching functionality. Type in a url and it returns a list of the tags people have associated with the url from the various social bookmarking networks.

    It’s a personal side project - so it’s more of a utility than a web product. There are some issues querying the various APIs - you should read the FAQ for more details.

    I think a lot of people would find it helpful, so I made it public.

  16. Khebab

    August 21st, 2006 at 7:59 am

    I’m not impressed, my blog (http://GraphOilogy.blogspot.com/) is bookmarked by 14 people on del.icio.us but SocialMater gives a 0 (same for Digg and reddit).

  17. Graeme

    August 21st, 2006 at 8:08 am

    Well, great job, but doesn’t work 100%.
    When you click on the names on the left (technorati etc…), the results are different. Socialmeter has to work, but I think it’s a very good idea :-)
    Thanks.

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