http://circut-city.blogspot.com

However, I’d love to know more about that tail (and I’ve asked Dom from AddThis.com) about that. I’d love to see the numbers for Simpy, of course, but also a few other services.

I’m also surprised to see Y! MyWeb there. I thought that was a pretty dead service. Ask? Ask has a social bookmarking service? I didn’t even know (and still don’t know where it lives).

@25
Again, Dom/AddThis, show us what is in that 18.6%, please!

In September Google commanded a 17.0 percent share of all Web bookmarking activity, followed by native-browser bookmarking (i.e., “Favorites”) with a 16.1 percent share. Yahoo’s Delicious dropped to third place with a 9.2 percent share, and Faceb…

‘Google Reader stats, in case you don’t know, are bullshit. In fact, all Feedburner stats for most top blogs are bullshit due to the effect of default feeds. Want 80,000 free subscribers? How about 200K or more?’

http://mashable.com/2007/10/15.....ith-proof/

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

http://familyresource4u.wordpress.com

Also, it is surprising that Google decided to create a completely new product instead of enhancing Google Bookmarks. It certainly goes against Brin’s call for more features and fewer products.

-Dom

@20 - Roger, I suggest you add the AddThis button on your site/blog for a couple of days, and then look at the free stats we provide. You will see that your users are not just using del.icio.us. By only including the del.icio.us button 1) you are making it difficult for the rest of the users to bookmark, and 2) you are missing the chance to share/promote your content on these other services.

Also, what is interesting about these stats is that they are very different from site to site. Some sites have Facebook or Digg way at the top, others have del.icio.us or Reddit, or also favorites (local bookmarks).

The data that we just published is an average across all accounts (website/blogs) in our database for the whole month of September.

@9 - Chris, good point; we thought about this issue a lot…”the rich gets richer”. This is in fact how most user-driven ranking system work. I can think of a lot of examples, including the bookmarking services themselves. The more a page/link gets posted on Digg or Del.icio.us, the more visible it becomes, the more it gets posted again, and the more visible it becomes, etc.

When deciding on the order of the services on AddThis, we do look at these statistics, but we also take into account the user experience, what users expect to see first. And again this is different from site to site, in some cases we provides a customized version of the button.

-Dom

(AddThis.com)

Here’s info about Shared Stuff:

http://www.google.com/s2/shari...../help.html

Here’s a good FAQ page about Google Bookmarks:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.c.....s-faq.html

Here’s a hint: when you say “social bookmarking”, you better actually use SOCIAL bookmarking stats. A run-of-the-mill bookmarking service doesn’t cut it.

I mean, these stats only show those people who used AddThis to add a bookmark to their browsers (second most popular), which is an indirect way to bookmark a page in your browser.

What about those who just added a bookmark in their browser directly or with Ctrl+D without using AddThis?

If you add those in, old style bookmarking is still much bigger than social bookmarking.

That has implications for our current approaches to writing elements.

compare with these data: http://friendfeed.com/static/i.....-users.png

and friendfeed is predominantly googlers.

http://www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff

db

@9, good point, people do tend to click on whatever is on top, and that may be biasing this list.