Taking the plunge - Part 4 - Useful definitions

What, you don't know what Furl Digg Stumble del.icio.us Diigo Permalink Technorati Twitter Stumangati and Ficklewink are?!?!?!?!

Yeah, me neither - here are some definitions to help us... 

Here we have a few brief, simple and generalized definitions of some populare web2.0 tools. Each of these tools probably do about 1,000 more things than I mention here, but my interest is to give you the gist of it. If there is anything that I've gotten plain wrong, comment and tell me about it!

Permalink: This is a URL that sticks with blog entries even after they move into the archives from the blog's home page.

Digg: Digg is basically a popularity index. Users can submit online content which is then ranked by the Digg community. The most popular content bubbles to the top of the list.

Diigo: Diigo is a social annotation tool. Users can share comments with each other about web pages by tagging them with the online equivalent of a sticky note.

Furl: Furl is a lot like del.icio.us, except not nearly as used. So, I'm going to stick with del.icio.us.

del.icio.us: is the dominant social bookmarking site. The main value of it is that people can see what you've bookmarked and tagged. As most of the best of these tools, it is all about sharing.

Technorati: Technorati is a blog indexing tool. They are continually scouring the "live web", organizing blogs and ranking them by their popularity. You can also use it to keep track of blogs, like you would do with Google Reader.

Stumble Upon: is a site that allows you to post your favorite web pages, blogs, videos and photos. You can also create a profile and gather fans, but the point of it is to organize the parts of the web you like most.  

reddit: well, they say it best: "reddit is a source for what's new and popular online. reddit learns what you like as you vote on existing links or submit your own!"