Iconistan: Social News Real Estate
According to Wired, there’s a new real estate battle brewing for the “social bookmarking bar” area at the bottom of blog posts. Real estate? Can we get Casey Serin involved, somehow?
I recently added a strip of this sort. It only appears in the post page itself, and lists links to StumbleUpon, Digg, Del.icio.us, Newsvine, Spurl, Simpy, Furl, Reddit, and Yahoo!. I don’t even use the majority of those sites.
Anyhow, I settled on doing a text only bar instead of a row of icons since a slew of icons was just too visually disturbing.
As for “iconistan” itself, my thinking is, I’m getting too lazy to submit my own blog posts to these social news sites — someone else should probably decide if something I’ve written is worth submitting. But there’s a fine line between making things easier for your readers versus looking like a popularity whore, and I’m trying to keep on the generally honest side of things — so I opted for a bar that’s pretty inocuous and would only be recognizeable to someone who knew what those sites do in the first place.
So to sum up, I think this “battle” over this real estate is non-existent. If people really feel the urge to submit something to a social news website, they’ll do it, with or without the presence of “iconistan”.
I dont think that it would make a big difference.
Its like old wine in a new bottle. I think this is time for people to be more honest and then there is no problem.
I think the major goal was reach to reach out to many people but that did not really work out. I think there were just too many flaws.
my thinking is, I’m getting too lazy to submit my own blog posts to these social news sites — someone else should probably decide if something I’ve written is worth submitting. But there’s a fine line between making things easier for your readers versus looking like a popularity
The time has come when people should start buying real estate properties. Since the real estate prices are really at a low price right now, this is the right time people should buy real estate.
In the future it will be useful!
These days the real estate prices have reached an all time low. This is the best time for people to buy real estate properties.
It may be useful later and it will be better if people buy it now and sell it later.
I somehow feel the bookmark bar is more visually appealing…