Stories tagged "socialnews"

The research on viral content sharing shows that frequent users of social web technologies like Twitter, blogs, and social news and networking sites tend to share online content with more people, more often than those that do not.

Yahoo's new social news site promises to prevent the obvious cheating that happens on sites like Digg and Reddit

Lately, I have to say I've been somewhat disappointed with Mixx. It's a great site with a great crew working behind the scenes, but with the spam issues, blind voting, and revenge voting, it seems that they may not be willing to push back hard enough agai

"For the past 7 -8 months I and many others have been reporting this one specific member. We’ve reported him for revenge voting, hateful comments, spam submissions and spam comments. Yep I think you guys know who I’m talking about..."

Two more takes on social news have gone public this week, bringing along their own approaches on how to present the "best" news while allowing the users to interact with the stories.

I’m sure that an important slice of the internet users are familiar with Digg. Many of them are quite active and they submit stories to Digg.com. But this article is not about Digg, it’s about Mixx.

Digg.com falls in love with its darlings and then buries them, leaving a whole horde of stories staring up from a shallow grave as the clumps of dirt rain down.

Long gone are the days when media giants the likes of CNN, The New York Times and NBC told us what news and information to consume. Today, it’s all about the power of the people, and Social News Central brings together users and consumers of all social

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Regator attempts to unite two separate products - a social news service and a typical RSS reader - into a single, one-stop-shop for all your news needs.