There are so many things to read on the internet that we need some sites and tools that read them all then hand pick the most interesting sites so we don't have to.<\/p>\n
Be it a boredom surfing tip for when you're idling, or a way to satisfy an insatiable curiosity for interesting, weird, funny or informative links, here are some links to bookmark — and feeds to add to your subscription list.<\/p>\n
These sites show, in real time, what pages users are bookmarking. Of course, this comes with tags<\/em>.<\/p>\n Where people don't really bookmark<\/em> pages, but vote<\/em> for them if they think it's worth it.<\/p>\n Some tools produce interestingness<\/em> rankings, not from users vote, but from their writing on their own blogs (and mostly from the frequency of links that get blogged). This is a pretty good populariy indicator, but you mostly cannot filter results by topic.<\/p>\n Here two sites that belong to more than one category, since they aggregate popular links from various sites :<\/p>\n To end this article, I'd like to mention a site I really like for its unique concept of content personalization. This site won't tell you what people<\/em> like, but will select instead what you<\/em> will like : Findory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
\nEven better now that you can filter fresh links only<\/li>\n
\nVery similar to del.icio.us<\/li>\n
\nYet another del.icio.us clone, with a graphical touch and cute tiny screenshots of bookmarked pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nUser driven "approval" sites<\/h2>\n
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\nProvides numerous feeds for popular stories and links, by age and topics. Fear your bandwidth bill if your site is dugg.<\/li>\n
\nVery similar, with more topics while Digg focuses mainly on geek and technological stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAutomated selection tools<\/h2>\n
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\nThe famous web-based aggregator computes a daily list of links that are mentionned in blogs. <\/li>\n
\nBlogpulse generates several daily rankings : blog, blog posts, links.<\/li>\n
\nThis one gives few explanations about the technology used to pick links, but this is probably something very similar to counting links in blog posts<\/li>\n
\nTo be honest I don't like this site (and my eyes go "ouch" when I try to read the page) but for the sake of relevance I have to include it. Technology in background is rather secret here too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAggregation tools<\/h2>\n
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\nDigests digg<\/strong> + slashdot<\/strong> + del.icio.us<\/strong> popular links into one single list.<\/li>\n
\nGathers noteworthy links, and images, from various sources including Flickr<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPersonalized results<\/h2>\n