Del.icio.us or Technorati?

by Lee Hopkins on January 14, 2006 · 6 comments

in miscellaneous

Which is better - de.licio.us or technorati?
I’m confused (not an overly hard thing to be when you have my brain).

At the recommendation of my arch rival and nemesis Jenkins I have started using the tag generator at egmstrategy.com, a fabulous resource for, well… creating tags. Who’d have thought, eh?

But now I am faced with two dilemmas and not enough geek knowledge to be able to answer my own questions:

  1. Should I use technorati or del.icio.us tags, or indeed both?
  2. Why use one over the other — do they have different end purposes?

The advice and wisdom of my colleagues gratefully received…

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  • http://blog.basturea.com/ Constantin Basturea

    You might want to use Technorati tags if you want to increase the visibility (on Technorati and on the Web) of your postings for selected keywords – others than your established categories (WordPress categories are automatically indexed as tags by Technorati).

    I use del.icio.us for: 1. my personal bookmarks, and 2. bookmarking links that might be interesting for other people (i.e. my PR Digest linkblog — more about it). But I don’t use del.icio.us on my blog postings; I don’t think people will follow the links, and tagging my own postings it’s too much effort :) .

    YMMV :)

  • http://blog.basturea.com Constantin Basturea

    You might want to use Technorati tags if you want to increase the visibility (on Technorati and on the Web) of your postings for selected keywords – others than your established categories (WordPress categories are automatically indexed as tags by Technorati).

    I use del.icio.us for: 1. my personal bookmarks, and 2. bookmarking links that might be interesting for other people (i.e. my PR Digest linkblog — more about it). But I don’t use del.icio.us on my blog postings; I don’t think people will follow the links, and tagging my own postings it’s too much effort :) .

    YMMV :)

  • Lee

    Thanks, big C — that makes it completely clear. And I dare say it makes it clearer for some of my colleagues who have wondered about tagging but haven’t ‘gotten into it’ yet.

    Now, if only I could be sure that ecto (windows) creates tags for technorati, then I might buy it…

  • Lee

    Thanks, big C — that makes it completely clear. And I dare say it makes it clearer for some of my colleagues who have wondered about tagging but haven’t ‘gotten into it’ yet.

    Now, if only I could be sure that ecto (windows) creates tags for technorati, then I might buy it…

  • Mark Turok

    I use Technorati myself, but really I should give del.icio.us a second look. I’m just more comfortable with Technorati to be honest.

    Mark Turok

  • Mark Turok

    I use Technorati myself, but really I should give del.icio.us a second look. I’m just more comfortable with Technorati to be honest.

    Mark Turok

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