Looking for good social link aggregators, like MeFi or Digg, or alternatively suggest ideas for a new one.

November 2, 2006 8:30 AM

I’m looking for good social link aggregators, like MeFi or Digg, or alternatively suggest ideas for a new one.

On slow days I can’t get enough interesting/cool links. There are the 6 big ones: Metafilter, Reddit, Slashdot, Digg, Delicious, and Linkfilter. But where else do you go to get a regularly updated stream of quality, eclectic links? I’m after sites with interesting links about science, tech, society, culture, arts, games, so on (not necessarily all at once). Not really looking for Fark-a-likes or news sites.

Alternative bonus question: if I (or whoever) were to make a new social link aggregator site, what features would you like to see, or what direction should it go in? Does the web need a new reddit, since it appears to be inching toward shark-jumping territory?

posted by MetaMonkey to computers & internet (11 comments total)

Sensible Erection
posted by chunking express at 8:36 AM on November 2, 2006

memepool, but it's updated very irregularly.
posted by muddgirl at 8:42 AM on November 2, 2006

Growabrain, by our own growabrain.
posted by interrobang at 8:43 AM on November 2, 2006

I'm hooked on popurls but they do most of the sites you already mentioned (and then some) *shrug*
posted by rampy at 9:01 AM on November 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

Is stumbleupon helpful?
posted by sneakyalien at 9:34 AM on November 2, 2006

BoingBoing is great for finding random, interesting, eclectic links.
posted by DrSkrud at 2:04 PM on November 2, 2006

To clarify, you're looking for "social bookmarking" sites in order to find aggregated sets of popular links (kind of a snapshot of what's hot at the moment), rather than one to use yourself to, you know, save and share bookmarks?

How about Yahoo! MyWeb ("Interesting Today"), Ma.gnolia ("Popular Bookmarks"), and Furl ("Today's Popular Items")? Though Popurls is pretty handy.
posted by pzarquon at 2:08 PM on November 2, 2006

No, I'm not looking for social bookmarking sites, I'm looking for social link sharing sites, where people post links explicitly because they think they will interest others.

The first answer is the best so far.
posted by MetaMonkey at 2:17 PM on November 2, 2006

reddit has pretty much everything I want in a link agregator. But, the things that could be improved are:

The god awful look of the site.
More categories.

Beyond that, better algorithms to put things on the front page is always wanted.
posted by sien at 2:39 PM on November 2, 2006

And don't forget that reddit has just sold out to the man.
posted by TheRaven at 4:22 PM on November 2, 2006

Well not too many ideas for a new site, and surprisingly few links to similar sites... so I'm going to take the number of favorites as a sign that a new link sharing site is needed, and start thinking about hacking one together. Feel free to drop further ideas here, or email in profile.
posted by MetaMonkey at 7:35 AM on November 3, 2006