Diigo – most popular
January 20th, 2009 6:58 pmI realize I’m a little behind the press on this, but I fell out of the loop and just came across this post today: Diigo Blog » Diigo ~ Open Web Awards winner!.
The award is given by Mashable, and Diigo was not the only winner. There are 2 different awards for each of 26 distinct categories. The two awards are “People’s Choice” and “Blogger’s Choice”. In fact, the award that Diigo won was the “People’s Choice” in the “Social Bookmarking” category.
What is most interesting (and suspicious) to me is that neither of the two “most popular” (read: largest user base) social bookmarking sites — Delicious and StumbleUpon, even made runner-up, when in fact they were ranked #1 and #2 respectively in the “Blogger’s Choice” award.
So what does this award actually mean?
There was no critical analysis or comparison done for the “People’s Choice” award, it was simply a popularity contest. Each user was allowed to vote once per day over the course of two weeks. So basically, it means that Diigo’s user base is more dedicated and motivated than are either Delicious’ or StumbleUpon’s. It could also mean that Diigo did a better job of getting the award [word] out to it’s users than did the other two.
That’s it.
I would really like to know what the estimated user base for both Diigo and Delicious is. It still amazes me that neither StumbleUpon nor Delicious was able to crack the top two in the popularity contest. #2 was ShareThis. Never heard of it.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."
January 20th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I still haven’t been able to find a count of registered users, but this is almost as good. According to Alexa, over the past 3 months, both Diigo.com and ShareThis.com have averaged about .002% of worldwide visitors. That is the “Percent of global Internet users who visit this site”. StumbleUpon got over .08%, and Delicious got nearly .04%. To me this looks like Delicious and StumbleUpon combined have roughly 60 times the userbase of Diigo and ShareThis combined.
In order for Diigo to have won the popularity contest, either the Delicious and StumbleUpon users just don’t care, or they were somehow excluded from the rankings because they won the “Blogger’s Choice” award. If that’s the case, it would mean that Diigo actually ranked 3rd in the voting, which makes a lot more sense to me.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Sorry, my math is bad. Should have been “Delicious and StumbleUpon combined have roughly 30 times [not 60] the userbase of Diigo and ShareThis combined”