LinkedIn : Answers : In Europe, what are the blogger's equivalents (search for weblogs) for Technorati, Digg, Delicious, et al?

A few days ago I posed this question to LinkedIn users.  Their answers may interest you.

"In Europe, what are the blogger's equivalents for Technorati, Digg, Delicious, et al? "

You can hardly see Europe as one in this situation. First of all - lots of europeans actually use the services you mention. Those who don't will likely not use anything, or use a local - country specific - service. Language barriers tend to dictate that either you launch in english - or in your native language. As almost all countries in Europe have their own language the result will be - a country specific service.

                                                           

Messages from Gunnar Langemark

The best way to know what blogs your industry is surveying would be to immerse yourself into their industry. I know from working in Sweden (being able to speak Swedish) that though everyone speaks english, there is a barrier when it comes to communication especially in information sharing. There is not many people that would go on an english blog and write unless that's where their industry is focused. For local companies and people I would recommend getting an "insider" than could ask questions and receive answers for you in the native language.

Take a look at the English blogs, because a lot of times they say the same thing in a different language.                    

                                                           

Messages from Oscar Lekande

In Spain meneame is the equivalent to digg, in France you've got wikio ( created by the "famous" Chappaz" ) something of interest you didn't really mention is all blogs networks contact me if you wnat to know moe about our old ...europe :)                                                            

Messages from F.Xavier Garcia

                 In the Netherlands, there are a couple of digg clones: MSN Reporter, NUjij.nl, eKudos.

I'm quite certain that there are more, but I stopped counting after 3 bad ripoffs. You might want to consult with Boris Veldhuizen van Zanten, he knows a lot more about this.

                  

Links:

      

•                              http://reporter.msn.nl/                                                              
•                              http://www.nujij.nl/default.lynkx                                                              
•                              http://www.ekudos.nl/                                                              

                      

Kerim Satirli also suggests this expert on this topic:

      

• Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

                                       

Messages from Kerim Satirli

                 They are, respectively: Technorati, Digg and Delicious.

If you'd like to find out about european web apps - head to red/writeweb and read their series of articles about international Web markets.

I think that the last one was about Romania, and links to others (Germany, Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, China, Turkey, Italy, Brazil, France, Japan, India, Austria, Sweden, Australia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Latvia, Ireland and Hong Kong) are at the bottom of it.

                  

Links:

      

•                              http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_web_apps_in_romania.php                                                              

                                                   

Messages from Michał Olszewski

Being English, working in England, having spent ten years in the US when the internet flowered and blossomed - pretty much those sites you mention. Also - popurls, memeorandum, del.icio.us and so on...

                                                           

Messages from richard dows