Here is the list, the Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites according to Alexa:
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/
Alexa Rank: 4
Trully a social networking site, Facebook has evolved much from its early days. With clean uncluttered layout, ease of use, powerful networking functions, and third party apps, Facebook undoubtedly has won the first round social network batttle, leaving its previous competitor MySpace and Friendster in dust.
Twitter http://twitter.com/
Alexa Rank: 17
By asking a simple question of “What are you doing?”, Twitter has amassed huge followings among the Internet users. Anytime of the day, you can update your Twitter status via Twitter website, web apps, and mobile phones. The 140 characters limit is probably makes it so successful.
Digg http://digg.com/
Alexa Rank: 124
Put it simply, you vote for a page, and if enough other people vote for it, the page will be featured in the frontpage of Digg. Being featured in the front page will send ten of thousands of visitors to your website, almost surely crippling your web hosting if you are not ready for this kind of traffic. This is called as “Digg effect”. Once a poster boy of Web 2.0, Digg has lost much of it’s early luster.
Stumble Upon http://www.stumbleupon.com/
Alexa Rank: 355
StumbleUpon is a lot like using your Ipod Shuffle. You Stumble, and the site will open up a webpage that you may like. You favorit the page if you like it, and StumbleUpon will choose the next recommendations based on the pages you have favourited. Stumble Upon is my personal favorite amongst this list.
Squidoo http://www.squidoo.com/
Alexa Rank: 413
In Squidoo, you can create overview pages called lenses, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest, and share it to the community. Users can choose to keep the earning from their lenses or donate it to a charity of their choice.
Reddit http://www.reddit.com/
Alexa Rank: 540
Reddit works almost the same as as Digg. The difference is probably in the crowd. I find that it’s easier to get interested visitors from reddit than Digg. To sum it up, in Digg, your popularity matters most, while in reddit quality submission get its place.
Del.icio.us http://delicious.com/
Alexa Rank: 611
If bookmarking is more important than networking, delicious will be your best choice. Simple interface that lets you bookmark web pages and access it everywhere from the web. Only if you want to, you can share it with others too.
Technorati http://technorati.com/
Alexa Rank: 665
Technorati is basically a link popularity contest where most-linked blog posts get featured. It works much like Google Pagerank, blog version. Each blog is assigned an authority number, you get additional authority for each blog post that get linked by others. Technorati was once the front runner of service for bloggers, but it is really losing much of the influence now.
Mixx http://www.mixx.com/
Alexa Rank: 991
A Digg like site, except that your chosen subject interest matters. When logged in, the homepage will display a list of popular pages for the subjects that you are interested in (based on tag).
Kaboodle http://www.kaboodle.com/
Alexa Rank: 1091
Kaboodle is a social shopping community, allowing complete strangers to become shopping buddies, to share and and discover new and interesting products and retailers.
And here is the rest of candidates that didn’t quite make it:
Note: Google Bookmarks and Yahoo Buzz are two special case. Google’s Alexa ranking 1 compasses everything on google.com, including Google Search, Google Map, Google Adsense and Google Analytics. Similarly with Yahoo Buzz, Alexa rank 2 is for everything on Yahoo.com. I have no idea on how popular Google Bookmarks and Yahoo Buzz, but I guess they should be among the top 10. The reason I’m not including Google and Yahoo in the Top 10 list is because social bookmarking is not the main reason of their existence.
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