13 digital and social media tools I don't use (but I tried)

In my professional life I often come across or become made aware of new tools, why I should be using them, what they can do for our clients at Porter Novelli and how not using them could one day result in my whole knowledge being obsolete.

Here are some I've seen or heard about (and mostly tried) and I no longer use.

1. Tweetdeck - this Twitter client is a tool which I really like but just falls short of my love for Twhirl. While Tweetdeck does some very cool stuff, I just don't need it enough to sack the client incumbent
2. MySpace - this was all the rage a while ago, wasn't it? Before Facebook found its way into my life in 2006, I'd spent a solid year on MySpace. But it's all about who uses it, and these days it's nobody. I have no account now, not even a dormant one
3. Yammer - is Yammer the name of the tool or a description of their marketing? I'm sceptical about this Twitter-for-enterprise, because we have business IM and Twitter already. Getting a regular nagging email if you sign up and don't update is not helpful
4. Friendfeed - didn't get it, then tried it, then didn't get it. This one seems to have died a death recently anyway
5. Second Life - I can't remember for the life of me why I tried this, but I gave it about 30 seconds. If anyone *normal* uses it regularly, I'd be surprised
6. Tumblr - don't get me wrong, I like Tumblr a lot. I just don't really have a use for it, despite a couple of attempts. If you're a social scrapbook-keeper, it's bloody brilliant
7. Zemanta - Zemanta provides related links for your blog posts. I kinda like the idea, and I covered it pre-launch on an old blog of mine which hit the buffers. I just never really got around to using it
8. Last.fm - great tool, used to like scrobbling, but really and truly it just ended up getting SPOTIFIED
9. StumbleUpon - Stumble was great fun when I was at university, flagging up all manner of random shit for me to enjoy, share and vomit over
10. Yahoo! Answers - again, like the idea and I'm sure some people find it useful but it just isn't for me. I prefer to use Google and just do my own filtering
11. LiveJournal - learned about this bad boy at university, thanks to the awesome Dr Paul Hodkinson who wrote about it quite a bit (it's big among goths). Had a look, but it's another where the value is in the people, and I knew no people. I like that it integrates blogging and communities
12. Friends Reunited - signed up, didn't want to pay, then lost interest. Now it's going down the tubes, unless something is done sharpeesh
13. Blip.fm - just why?!