If you provide excellent content, social media users will take the time to read and talk about it in their networks. That’s what you really want. You don’t want a cheap thumbs up, you want your readers to talk about your content with their own voice.

Interesting that sites saw greater social media usage when removing “like” buttons – makes sense – if someone ‘likes’ a page in Facebook you basically don’t see it, but if they manually link to it, they generally provide some commentary and that in turn gets more promotion across their friends timelines.

Having used Coda for years, and still finding myself flip-flopping between Coda, TextMate, TextWrangler and Sublime Text 2 (all in the space of a day usually!) here’s hoping Coda 2 can whet my appetite and become my default editor of choice…

Coda 2 represents a incredible overhaul of every facet of our venerable all-in-one web code editor. It’s a release packed with tons of improvements that will make you more efficient and faster at your job. And on top of that, it’s got brand new features that will make it an even more indispensable part of your process.

And Diet Coda seems the perfect “little” companion…