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A little more than year ago I presented you 7 social browsing services that will kill Digg and SEO 1.0 - most notably StumbleUpon but also Yoono or Me.Dium.
The decline of Digg seems unstoppable and at least blogs by now have far more visitors from StumbleUpon than Google so that SEOs had to adapt and embrace SEO 2.0 methodology.
The web is still a lonely place though. We’re still alone staring at the screen and often get angry for reasons we wouldn’t be in real life.
This is due to the lack of contact with other people during prolonged work hours at the screen. Sites like StumbleUpon do not really help here as the social aspect is still rudimentary. It’s more common that you get spammed or flamed than getting “social” with other people.
Like it or not, a new generation of social browsing services is already there and in future people won’t believe how you could ever walk the Web alone instead of “web together“:
Many of these advanced social browsing apps are or require browser add ons. Some of them offer chat functionality for real time social browsing and contact to other users. In most cases you won’t be alone anymore browsing the web. It can’t make you as happy as meeting real people face to face but it will at least make the Web a better, a more humane place.
Finally there are social browsing plus Second Life combinations emerging. I don’t think these are ready for prime time yet but probably they sooner or later will.
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It is amazing how Digg is continuing to grow, although the quality is going down really fast. I guess Digg will fall because of its own weight some day. Looking forward to it :)
SocialBrowse is awesome, I’d used it when it launched (not using it now due to lack of time). Will check out the others.
Stumbled!
I Enjoy Social Browse too. It’s very addictive and time consuming, so I turned it off for a while too. :) Tried Browzmi, it just didn’t appeal to me, don’t know why.
Why do you like Socialbrowse? I tested it and it annoyed the hell out of me (adding elements to webpages where you don’t expect it etc.)!
i like Slingpage because it lets me share informations with friends. it is fun and interactive.
I’ll have to check out these alternate 2.0 sites. Thanks for the heads up!
I like Socialbrowse, however I find it can be a distracting and I have to turn it off to get some work done.
I think Digg will fall as well. Actually, a lot of traffic from there is worthless for me. Anyone experience the same?
I’ve never been a fan of Digg. My drug of choice is StumbleUpon.