Who has the most icons?

September 26, 2006 1:43 PM

You know those little icons for digg, delicious, reddit, etc. that are appearing on blogs and websites practically everywhere now? Which site has the most in a row? Or: What site caters to the most types of social tagging software?

For example, here's one with sixteen different icons.
I'm also interested in any stories about how this formatting came to be.

posted by mattbucher to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Boing^2 has some I've never even heard of.
posted by mecran01 at 1:44 PM on September 26, 2006

Best answer: It's a wordpress plugin.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 1:45 PM on September 26, 2006

Best answer: Sixteen? Pfft. Checkout Makezine outlandish 45. Granted, half are rss feeds of some kind or another, but still.
posted by O9scar at 3:34 PM on September 26, 2006

Um, Makezine's
posted by O9scar at 3:35 PM on September 26, 2006

Best answer: Tangentially related: those icons are most often called favicons. Whether or not this is the cause of their size, the ones on blogs derive from the site-specific icons that appear in many contemporary browser's url bars. Usually, the icon itself can be found at insertdomain.com/favicon.ico (that's an example, not a link like I see on preview; see http://metafilter.com/favicon.ico). The biggest gallery of these that I've seen, but not an exhaustive one, is at the MpP Favicon gallery, which also has some links to generators and tips for creation.
posted by msbrauer at 7:56 AM on September 27, 2006