People who made top Social Bookmarking Sites

Social bookmarking one of the key weapons for building up ones traffic. These sites are many in number and still growing. I just made a note of few sites and people behind them who have created an unique presence in the present generation. These sites generally revolve around voting, tags and popularity. Most of the leading blogs and sites wouldn't have got such a traffic if these sites weren't build. Sites and blogs who need exposure to their articles generally use these sites.So here I go with a list of such sites arranging them in the order of Alexa rank as on April 12th 2011. The rankings and sites may change in due time.

1. Twitter: I think there is no need for mentioning about this site as it is already in the list of top ten most visited websites. This site was created by Jack Dorsey and it serves the purpose of social bookmarking and social networking. It has a alexa rank of 9.

Jack Dorsey

2. Stumbleupon: We could say this site has revolutionized the field of social bookmarking leaving behind many sites, it gradually took a leap and now stands the second most visited social book marking site having an alexa rank of 124. It was founded by Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith in November 2001. It is having 26 million unique visitors with 210 million page views which made it to makes its way to the top ten list. Being a tough competer for digg it surpassed it in mean time and still standing strong.

Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith

Garrett Camp

3. Digg: Most of the blogs and websites wouldn’t have got such an enormous traffic if Kevin Ross hadn’t turned up in the making of Digg. Standing on the top of the third most visited social book marking site of all time with an alexa rank of 135. Its style and simplicity had won the hearts of many. Recently it had upgraded its theme and few of its features now it is called Digg V4 of course from its launch it has been improvising a lot. Approximately it is estimated to have 23 Million visitors a day with 73 Million unique page views. Recently Kevin Ross has resigned from this company. I think no one would have forgotten his cover page on one of the editions of Business week which read how this kid made $60 million in 18 months.

Kevin Ross

4. Reddit: Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian both graduates from University of Virginia. Reddit is named "2010 Hottest San Francisco Companies” list in Lead411's.It is now aquired by Condé Nast Publications, who owns Wired. Its alexa ranking is 136 surprisingly just 1 rank behind digg. Having chances to take over digg within a couple of months. It is having an approximate value of 13 million visitors per day and 970 million page views. This site is mostly visited by male audience.

Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian 

 

5. Delicious: It was formerly called as Del.icio.us. Having made a neat and descent looking social book marking site Joshua Schachter has made waves in the field of social book marking. Touching an alexa rank of 238 could easily make it stand in the top list. It approximately has 12 million visitors a day with 46 million page views. Delicious has been bought by yahoo and is now a part and parcel of yahoo. Yahoo also made their mind to sell this site in near future. Surely we don’t want to see it like Propeller which even being a leading site had to die.

Joshua Schachter

 

6. Tweetmeme: It finds the stories which have got most number of tweets in twitter. This actually used to be a retweet functional site but when twitter itself integrated that feature it had to be left alone. TweetMeme was built by a small web company called fav.or.it. Managing director of fav.or.it Nick Halstead is the founder of tweetmeme. This concept was given by Marjolein Hoekstra. This site had successfully reached an alexa rank of 532 with an estimated 4.6 million visitors a day and 13 million pageviews.

Nick Halstead

 

7. FriendFeed: A really addictive bookmarking site created Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh. Ana Yang & Kevin Fox were also among their team formerly all were ex-google employees. It has an alexa rank of 628. It is estimated to have 2.6 million visitors. This site is now being bought by Facebook. Since this site had been a team work of friends the name friendfeed could have been emerged.

Ana Yang, Sanjeev Singh, Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, and Paul Buchheit

8. Slashdot: This site has a slogan called news for nerds and stuff that matters which is available in two languages English and Japanese is one among the social bookmarking. It was built by Rob Malda and Jeff Bates long back in 1997 as a blog called chips and Dips. Its traffic is estimated to be 7.3 million visitors and 30 million unique page views per day. It has an alexa rank of 1,295. Rob Malda now runs SourceForge.

Rob Malda

 Jeff Bates

9. Diigo: Diigo is expanded as Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff. This site is ranked 1,515 by alexa. Founded by Maggie Tsai and Wade Ren where Wade acts as the CEO of the company. It is estimated to have 1.5 million visitors a day 14 million page views. Audience are equally shared for this site. When it was in beta stage it was listed among the top ten research tools by CNET in 2006.

 Maggie Tsai and Wade Ren  photo credit to: Brian Solis

10.Fark: Its not news its fark is how its logo is. Top news based social book marking site created by Drew Curtis in 1999. Users who submit articles are called farkers and their articles are to be approved by admin. This site gets more than 2000 link submissions every day. It has 2.7 Million visitors and 47 million page views a day. Its alexa ranking is 2,173. It is said that the classified section of this site earns him much revenue than any other source. Unlike any other source it is being run under a single handed administration.

Drew Curtis

 

All the data of page views and  images were taken from Google and ranking is based on Alexa. Some of the information is being written by doing some research from Wikipedia so this post is not to be held for any wrong information. The data is as on 12th April 2011. Regarding websites, their ranks and their visitors count may vary from day to day all numbers are just estimated.