It takes me quite a lot of time to write a post here, mainly because I have very less going on in my life at the moment. But if you were following this blog closely (I know you weren’t 🙂 ), you might have noticed that I kept playing with the SHARING and BOOKMARKING tools. I started off with the bookmarkify, then tried addthis and then finally settled for tellafriend. Although, I am still thinking of shifting back to Bookmarkify, right now I am sticking with TellaFriend. As far as the features are concerned, they all almost provide the same kind of features. All of them provide access to over 50 Bookmarking sites, not to forget the “Email this” option. Here is a short review on the following Bookmarking tools.

1. Bookmarkify: This WordPress plugin lets you insert social bookmarking links in your posts and other pages. The most important advantage Bookmarkify has is that it put direct links to the bookmarking and sharing websites on your pages/posts. This saves you from depending on another website (as in both of the next two tools) for bookmarking your pages. Visit the official plugin page for more of its features. So, why I am not using it? The one and only reason I am not using it is because of the tiny icons it places on your post.
   

   Small Images by Bookmarkify

   
   May be, I will modify it to use large icons in near future.
2. AddThis: The next two plugins are almost similar. They both place a javascript on your posts/pages, which opens the list of available sharing options. The major difference between these two and Bookmarkify is that, rather than putting a direct link to the bookmarking sites, they put a link to their site which redirects to the Bookmarking or Sharing site. So, how is this advantageous? Well!! you can keep track of the visitors who digged your websites, how many times its already digged/shared and if it gets highly shared, get prepared for the high traffic. These tools also offer powerful analytics so you can learn how and where your visitors are sharing your content.
   

   mouseover the bookmarking button

3. TellaFriend: Although this tool differs from the last one ideologically, it is quite similar to Addthis. TellaFriend is made for the “word of mouth” kind of sharing. For this, it integrates the most famous email-service providers (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail), so that they can get your address book to you and you can share it to your friends without even having to remember their email addresses. It also integrates the famous IM (Gtalk, Yahoo messenger,) and Blogging (WordPress, Blogger, ) services for promoting the same idea.
   

   Mouseover the tellafriend button

   It also provides the feature of adding the title and description for the Bookamrking site right there on your website. Although, its not such a great feature but still it scores +1 for it.

   

   Enter the title & description and hit "Bookmark"

   One more but less important thing in which it scores over Addthis is its redirecting page. Compare the following two redirect pages, you know what I am talking about!!

   
   So, Decide for yourself which one of them you want. If you are using something else, do leave a comment. and remember Sharing is Good.