This post has been contributed by O'Flaherty via CBN
Last year (May 2007) as part of a meme that was going around I wrote a wrote a list of the core Web 2.0 sites that I use with a rough idea of how regularly I visit each of them.
Well 10 months have passed and much has changed on the internet landscape so I thought it would be good to revisit that list and update it.
Daily Use:
- Twitter - For making announcements and getting great blogging ideas and staying in contact with friends and loved ones.
- Google / Google Blog Search - Research!
- Google Bookmarks - For personal bookmarks.
- Google Reader - My main tool for consuming RSS feeds.
- FeedBurner - Check feed usage statistics, also handles emails for subscribers.
- WordPress - My blog platform of choice.
- Wikipedia - Research (even though I hate their "nofollow" policy)
- GMail - Web based email client, file storage and chat text storage.
- StumbleUpon - Finding new sites, or simply wasting time. Up from Weekly.
- Facebook - See MySpace. Up from Weekly.
- Google Analytics - Great for checking up on where my and others is coming from.
- BlogTV - Am on BlogTV broadcasting almost everyday. You can see all the shows on O’Flaherty Live. *NEW*
- Bloomer - Denmarks best social network (and I’m a co-founder). *NEW*
- Pingoat - No better way to get the word out after you’ve updated your blog. *NEW*
- Fuelmyblog - My favorite blogging community and I co-host Fuelmyblog TV. *NEW*
- HelloTxt - Allows me to post links to Twitter, Facebook, Pownce and others in one go. Love it. *NEW*
- FriendFeed - Great way to track what my friends are up to across multiple services. *NEW*
Weekly Use:
- Google Adsense -
Did I make ANY money this week?Finally making dosh with this. - YouTube - User generated video content (Slightly more than weekly usage to be honest but not daily).
- Digg - For seeing what’s hot in the world of Tech. But I am loosing interest due to the crowd mentality. Down from daily.
- Del.icio.us - For public bookmarks. Down from daily.
- MyBlogLog - Check blog stats and interact with the O’Flaherty community! Down from daily.
- UStream - Used to stream live when I’m not interested in to much interaction. *NEW*
- Blogcatalog - Like MyBlogLog *NEW*
- Pownce - Like Twitter but a lot of cross posting between the two. *NEW*
- Last-fm . The plugin runs every time I play music but I only visit the sight about once a week. Gives good insight into what types of music your friends are into. *NEW*
Monthly Use:
- PodShow - To host my podcast. Down from weekly
- Podsafe music network - To find great music. Down from weekly.
- SplashCast - Great flash player, used for playing my podcast. Down from weekly.
- MySpace - Keeping in touch with some folks an promoting my podcast Down from weekly.
- CoComment - to keep track of my comments on the web. Down from Daily.
Removed from list:
- Technorati
- Monitor blog popularity and see who’s linking to O’Flaherty.Never visit it any more. Google Blog Search and Google Alerts combined does a better job. - Bebo
- Keeping in touch with folks.Nobody I know uses it. - Snapsoid
- Online photo sharing.Er… yeah forget it. - Flickr
- photo sharingLost all interest in this. Prefer to host pictures from my own server. - Jaiku
- Used almost as a stream of “me”.Never visit this or about 50 services like it any more. They now all are set up to aggregate my content from the sources that I do use. - BlogRovr
- See who’s talking about the blog I’m reading.No interest. Can find the same information with Google Blog Search if I need it.
As I said in the original post I’m sure there are more than I have listed here. The list isn’t comprehensive but covers all the important ones.
What sites do you use and why?
