If you like making lists, reading other peoples lists, adding to lists, or putting lists on your website, list.ly is the tool for you!
As it says on the front page of the list.ly website, it makes list social through collaboration and sharing.
It’s easy to get started. All you need to do is sign-in using Facebook or Twitter. How you sign-in, dictates how you share lists. It also changes your profile, so keep that in mind before you get started.
If you find a great list on Nintendo Wii games or Google Analytics improvement ideas and want to share it, that’s the social stream it’s going to use.
So, before you sign-in, decide how you want to use it!
Search
The first thing you might want to do is search for lists. You may want to contribute or add links to a list.
For this list of Best Nintendo Wii Games, you can give a listing a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, or in the case of this list, mark whether or not you have the title.
So, list.ly isn’t just about sending lists into your social media stream, it has social features and community built within itself, too.
Follow
You can also follow lists.
Enter your email (it should remember your email address when you follow other lists), and updates to the list will be emailed to you directly.
If list.ly can build a big enough community, this will be a great resource.
Contribute & Share
To contribute to a list, simply add the required info, and add it.
This isn’t like a Stumble, in that you can add items via bookmark-lets, although, that would be a nice feature. I could see this as a problem if you had 20+ lists and followed another 40+, it could get a little heavy.
In the bottom right, list.ly preps a tweet or Facebook message on every page you pull up. It fills-in the info for you, and it’s ready to fire!
Very slick.
Embed
Here is another thing list.ly does really well.
You can embed lists into your website or blog. I can think of a number of instances this would be really slick on a website.
You could create a list directly related to your blog focus.
Example:
If your blog is about blogging, you might create a list of distraction-free minimal writing apps.
This would embed an interactive, changing, growing list of apps.
List.ly is an interesting mix of social bookmarking pressed into your blog or website.
But…
There are plenty of shortcoming with list.ly. In its defense, it is still in beta, so I hope to see some of the rough edges removed and options added.
Right now, there is a point system. I’m not exactly sure what its for, nor is there much of an about page or FAQ. Something that should be added. Again, this is in beta, so I’m not going to grill them over it.
List.ly has a lot of potential and I really like what they’re trying to do.
Sign up, give it a try, it’s free!
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