A Few Indispensible Social Web Tools

A screenshot of just a few of the Web 2.0 sites tagged "social" on Go2Web20.

Some say the social Web is just a passing fancy. True, many of the thousands of socially-inclined startups out there might just be flashes in the pan. But some have allowed us to forge friendships in new ways, and what are friends for but to share links with? Here are four recommended social sites that will help you do that.

Tumblr may seem like just another blog platform, but in practice it looks and feels great to use. It's minimalistic, clean, and perfect for anyone who wants to share links, videos and pictures. And its declaration that you can “sign up in 10 seconds” doesn't hurt.

Flock is a social browser from Mozilla. It incorporates accounts from all your favorite social sites, like Facebook, Digg and YouTube, as well as your blog account. Share links easily, see what your friends are up to and best of all, install any of the add-ons you use with Firefox (you can also import your bookmarks).

Shareaholic is a browser add-on that lets you share whatever page you're browsing by selecting a social media tool from a drop-down menu located next to your browser's address bar. Facebook, Digg, Reddit, Delicious and Twitter are among your options.

Diigo's tag-based bookmarking component might remind you of Delicious at first, but Diigo is better designed, more user-friendly, and has technology to let you highlight Web pages and attach sticky notes to them. Brilliant.

Liz Colville
Senior Writer & Audience Development

Check out our Web Guide to Social Networking for tips, tricks and portals to more sites like the ones above.

Comments

[Account Deleted]

Great post. I'm checking out Plurk now...

thanks,

[Tommy and Salinda Howell]

Super excited about finding this blog post! Shareaholic is something of value that we are putting into action now. Thanks again!

[Sherman Social Media Smith]

wow I never knew these sites existed. Social Media is great and the fact that it makes building your business much easier. These tools are the next level to social media. It sounds like it makes it even more convenient to use social media which is great for business owners. Thanks for sharing this information

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[Guttu]

Flock all the way... It's my default browser for last one and half year. I am loving it.

[David Everitt-Carlson]

Good post. I'm checking out Tumblr now...