New social web tools we couldn't live without

Clogger/Copypunk is back and reminding us that we used to blog about the social media tools we like to use, and that those tools have probably changed. He has switched from Blogger, Technorati, del.icio.us, Statcounter and YouTube, to Blogger, Google Analytics, NetNewsWire, YouTube and Technorati.

Here's what the rest of the class of '06 chose, one more time (I compiled this list last year):

Simon Bisson: Newsgator, Trillian, Livejournal, Semagic, Flickr
Bobbie Johnson: Moveable Type, NetNewsWire, MarsEdit
Danny Bradbury: Furl, Del.icio.us, Attensa, Wordpress, BlogDesk
Iain Delaney: Bloglines, BlinkList, Opera RSS reader
Simon Collister: Google, RSS, Feedburner, YouTube, MySpace
Charles Arthur: NetNewsWire, MarsEdit, Technorati, Google Blog Search, Camino, Wordpress, Spam Karma 2
Niall Cook: humour, reality, respect, perspective, independence :-)
Antony Mayfield: Bloglines, Firefox, Microsoft OneNote, Qumana, Google Blog Search
David Terrar: Wordpress, Qumana, Technorati, Crispynews, Statcounter
Dennis Howlett: NetNewsWire, Ecto, Technorati, CrispyNews, Feeds2
David Tebbutt: NewsGator, NetVibes, Wordpress, Typepad, Technorati
JP Rangaswami: Netvibes, Technorati, Wordpress
Neville Hobson: WordPress, FeedDemon, Skype, Statcounter, Mint, NetVibes
Armand David: Wordpress, Wikipedia, Del.icio.us, Skype, FeedReader
Stephen Davies: WordPress, Bloglines, Firefox, Google Analytics, BrandPulse
Josh Hallett: Flickr, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Technorati
Richard Bailey: RSS, search, podcasting, tagging, missing the paradigm shift
Andrea Weckerle: Del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr, CrispyNews, Co.mments
Todd Defren: Del.icio.us, Qumana, NewsGator, Toread, Technorati This / Blogger Web Comments
Stuart Bruce: Typepad, Statcounter, Zoundry, CrispyNews, FeedDemon

My choices are more networky than they used to be. So I'm deciding to plump for:
1. Bloglines / Google Blog Search RSS / Technorati RSS cluster mashup
2. Del.icio.us
3. Blog
4. Twitter hooked up to GoogleTalk IM on my BlackBerry
5. Facebook
(Close sixth but not quite in my daily routine yet: virtual worlds)

So anyone want to update theirs?

Comments

[Mark]

Web analytics is a tool which is a must for any online business.
I have been neglecting this fact.
Recently I have started using http://gostats.com,
They provide comprehensive reports.

[Simon Collister]

Wow! How 2006. will try to update mine shortly...

[Bobbie]

Well, mine hasn't changed much apart from the fact I don't use MarsEdit any more.

The heart of blogging for me is RSS; I feed everything from around the place into my RSS reader and use that as the filter.

[Jon Silk]

MEMEJACKER!

[Meg]

While I'm not really in the same tech blogger field, I can relate to the shift in tools from my long-term heavy webuser, working in new media and using the web for social and work perspective.

My core toolset is:

-- Netvibes (RSS-tastic - I have tabs for personal productivity, blogs, friends, etc etc)
-- Twitter
-- Flickr
-- Wordpress
-- Tumblr

[Drew B]

Argh Flickr! 'Course. Maybe that's above del.icio.us for me.

[Simon Bisson]

Let's see how mine updates.

One one side I now mix LinkedIn and Facebook with the networking aspects of LiveJournal. LJ remains my blogging platform (and Semagic my blogging tool of choice), though I also microblog with Twitter. The recent refresh of Plaxo is coming in useful, too.

I still use Flickr, and I've extended the link between messaging and social networking tools with the beta build of Trillian Astra.

[Matt Brady]

Mine are (in no particular order):

- Facebook
- Clicky
- WordPress
- Outlook 2007's RSS support
- Community Server
- Technorati
- LinkedIn

[Danny Bradbury]

LinkedIn
Wordpress
Blogbridge
Del.icio.us

[Chris Green]

My top five:

* Twitter
* Blog
* Google Web Search
* Flickr
* RSS Feeds