A list of social news websites to get information and web traffic
Social News web sites bring a method for Internet users to store and organize, searches and to save and manage bookmarks or diggs ,stumbl's ,memory burns or snipets of web pages on the World Wide Web
In a social news web site, the users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share.
The links are public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups
or, shared only inside the network,
people can usually view these links chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
the social News web sites encourage users to organize their links and posts with tags instead of of folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and tags
There is also options view bookmarks/posts/links associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them.
Some social News web sites draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.
Some social News web sites provide web feeds for their lists of posts and links, including lists organized by tags.
allowing subscribers to become noticed of new posts/news and new links as they are saved, shared, and tagged by the other users.
As these social news web sites became more popular- they added extra features:
such as ratings and comments on Posts and links
the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers,
emailing of posts and links,
groups or other social network features
Search engine friendly social news and bookmarking sites
The site has discussion areas in which users may discuss the posted links and vote for or against others' comments. When there are enough votes against a given comment, it will not be displayed by default, although a reader can display it through a link or preference. Users who submit articles which other users like and subsequently "vote up" receive "karma" points as a reward for submitting interesting articles. Reddit also includes several topical sections called "subreddits", which focus on specific topics, such as programming, science, "not safe for work", and politics. There are dozens of subreddits
The Reddit logo changes for various holidays and often for no reason, paying homage to Star Wars, classic video games, and geek culture in general. It often changes in response to major discussion subjects within the site or major news stories.
Although Reddit is not moderated by its owners, the Reddit developers have built a system to aid with curtailing spam, which works based on the "reports" of users.
Digg
Digg.com
Digg is a website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted
links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most dugg stories appear on the front page.
Digg's popularity has prompted the creation of other social networking sites with a story submission and voting system
Propeller
www.propeller.comA social news site that covers all topics from technology to politics and entertainment. Operates in a similar fashion to Digg.
Propeller, previously known as Netscape.com, is a social news aggregator operated by AOL-Netscape. It is similar to Digg; users can vote for which stories are to be included on the front page and may comment on them as well.Propeller was hosted on the Netscape.com domain from June 2006 to September 2007 when it was replaced by the AOL Netscape generic portal.The previous version of Propeller was released to mixed reactions. Some users liked that they had more participation ability while others found the pages to be harder to navigate and not as structured. Soon after the release of the new site, a story entitled "Netscape's Blunder" was the top rated story
Fark
www.fark.com
A community news site which allows users to comment on news articles. User submitted links will be posted on the main page once they are approved by the administrators.
Fark.com is a community website created to allows users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. It is one of the top 100 English language websites,receiving over 2,500 submissions a day and over 5 million unique visitors per month.
It is frequently used as a humorous source on CNN, Fox News, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and many radio stations. It is generally seen as the destination for strange news stories and snarky commentary
Links are submitted by Fark members, which administrators can approve for posting on either the main page or one of the subsidiary tab pages ("greenlit") . All links, approved or not, have associated threads where users can comment on the link. Fark moderators police the discussion threads to delete forbidden content
Yahoo! Buzz
buzz.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Buzz is a community-based news article website, much like Digg, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and link to their own or another person's site that links to a full story of the information, therefore driving traffic to that person's website and creating a larger market for sites that research and publish their own news articles and stories, such as CNN or smaller, privately owned websites.
Mister Wong is is a social bookmarking site that originated in Germany, and has since become a popular and widespread tool in Europe. It’s recent launch in America is currently in private beta testing, in an effort to prepare for a full-fledged launching of its service, which is a direct competitor to del.icio.us.
Whats On-Memory burns
Gifts45 -Whats On-Memory burns
www.gifts45.com
is an online community where users post and rank different types of media,
this social content website encourages its members to read and share articles and news content relevant
To predominantly recipes gifts, shopping and travel destinations news articles.
Users can post and rank articles/blogs,videos and web sites, which displays the best news and article website content as voted by its by popularity on the gifts45-whats on social website homepage
What are -"Memory Burns"?
Register as a member - submit "Memory Burns" - vote on "Memory Burns""Memory burns"
users are posting and ranking different types of memory burns.all the info they remember when crawling the web
An idea or info on the web that has been burned in your mind
predominantly "memory burns" that focuses on recipes gifts, shopping and travel destinations news articles.
Users that post and rank articles/blogs,videos and web sites, can see them on the gifts45-whats on "memory burns" social website homepage.
users of the site use this utility for sharing news and opinions.
needs a Sign up and a registration process to post stories, rate and share comments.
Register as a member - submit content - vote on content.
Mister Wong
www.mister-wong.com
There is an emphasis on the social aspects of Mister Wong, as you can join groups and share links with others. You can also see which users have bookmarked any particular link on the site, as both public and private status. The ability to contribute to Mister Wong has also been simplified, with its multiple browser add-ons for adding and accessing different aspects of your bookmarking account and the ability to import and export bookmarks from other services.
Most recently, Mister Wong has launched in several other languages including Russian and Chinese, and has also added mobile support, which is a directory of mobile sites and can be accessed on your cell phone Cell phone reviews as well. Despite the questionable name, Mister Wong has a lot going for it, though one group feature allowing members to vote for submitted links would be useful in every other area of the site. Otherwise, the tools included in Mister Wong make for a rather helpful service.
MIXX
www.mixx.com
A general social news sites which has a category for all types of news. Topics covered include business, entertainment, sports, health and tech. Includes the
ability to create groups to share news with other users.
Mixx is a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It combines social networking and bookmarking with web syndication, blogging and personalization tools.
Users of Mixx can control a personalized blend of web content that includes text-based articles, images and videos.
Mixx users can search and discover media relevant to their interests, and interact with friends and other Mixx users who share their common interests.
The content on Mixx comes from various online sources, such as news services and online publishers of media such as video, images, and various other content.
Mixx users can submit items from any online source, including their own websites.
Mixx has received partnerships with a growing list of online publishing outlets including CNN.com, USA Today, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times and The Weather Channel.
Newsvine
www.newsvine.com
The site, incorporates news aggregation, social networking, citizen journalism, blogging, user ratings and online discussion
the website consists of community-driven news stories and opinions.
Users have their own blogs and can write articles,and save links to external content and
vote/comment on other user stories
.Newsvine is a community-powered news website which draws original content from its users and syndicated content from mainstream sources such as The Associated Press.
Users can write articles,
seed links to external content, and discuss news items submitted by both users and professional journalists.
Faves
www.faves.comFaves is a social bookmarking and networking software that installs a single browser button for users to "fave" a webpage, making a link to the page part of their Faves profile. Until October 2007, Faves was called Blue Dot.
While offering a service similar to the better-known del.icio.us, Faves has a wider range of functionality that encourages interaction with "friends" in rating the content of linked webpages. When a registered user visits their Faves home page, they see a summary of the bookmarks, called "Faves" by the company, that have been most recently shared by their friends.]
In addition to features shared with other bookmarking and social bookmarking services, Faves provides an in-page dialog for saving a Fave, thumbnails generated from the page, dynamic voting, and topic-based auto-generated favorites pages
www.nowpublic.com
where anyone can write a story, or upload images, audio or video
Whatever gets the most votes from the reading masses
. (NowPublic has "guest editors," "wranglers" and an "actual news guy" who keep an eye on things,
giving advice to contributing reporters and shepherding the best, most timely stuff through, but nobody on staff makes actual editing changes to the content.)
A participatory news network which focuses on citizen journalism.
Each user has their own individual profile blog/page
and can upload videos, images and news stories
Indianpad
www.indianpad.comIndianPad is a social bookmarking and blogging site, the place where user edited bookmark of news stories related to South Asia.
users submit stories to the site and other users decide by their voting power what gets to the front page.
Options to promote a story, demote a story and even vote on comments.
there are latest news, music or user profiles witch are search engine friendly
Topics covered include entertainment, sports, videos and tamil news.
a social bookmarking and news site
, to bookmark your website.
There are a lot of choices out there for this and a few rise above the crowd. One of those is Ka-Boom-It.
Ka-Boom-It is a Social Bookmarking site for news and information.
They are VERY Internet Marketer Friendly.
You can post your News stories, Blog Stories, New Websites, and more. Make Friends (Ka-Boomers) and have fun. Just about the only thing they ask is that you limit your sales page posts but do not discriminate.
They don’t allow porn or hardcore adult sites. (They will be deleted, and this is a good thing).
Netvou
Netvouz is another social bookmarking website that lets you create your own bookmark page to share with others. To begin with, create an account and upload your existing bookmarks (either from your browser or from another supported bookmarking site). On this page, you can organize your content into folders and tag them with keywords you can easily find them in a search. The bookmarks you access most often will be labeled by Netvouz as "Hotpicks" and will automatically be displayed at the top of your page. If it's been a while since you accessed a certain bookmark, you can be sure that the link is still accurate; Netvouz automatically removes bookmarks that lead to ghost pages and updates them if the address has changed. Netvouz allows you to control the privacy level of your bookmarks, allowing you to make them visible to everyone, or keep them for your eyes only.
It only searches through blogs to find exactly what you're looking for. .
to Search for blogs .
Navigate to the Technorati home page, and type in what you're looking for into the main search query bar.
and browse through Technorati tags,
that are organized in alphabetical order.
The bigger the tag text is in the Technorati tag cloud, the more popular or active that particular tag is.
the Technorati Blog Finder
is the Technorati's directory of blogs, organized by topic. for browsing through the categories, or scrolling down to the bottom of the page to view the most recently added blogs.
Technorati offers a feature called Claim Your Blog;
Technorati gets information and then
Technorati "claims" your blog.
and adds the blog to the Technorati's searchable blog database. geting The more users and more people looking at your blog.
kirtsy
www.kirtsy.comthe new name for Sk*rt, who skirted into waters that weren’t as comfy for a moment there. It’s a pretty cool site. Mix the wisdom of the crowds with 22 engaged and passionate editors and you get a fabulous hybrid of social news meets curated content.
Kirtsy is a site where women point out the cool stuff. Is that simple enough? There’s obviously a lot more at play here, but after looking around the site, I think you’ll figure it out pretty quickly, as well, and so I won’t dig in too deeply.
What I will say, however, is that Kirtsy has some neat features (the mix of editing and voting, for one), a nice design, and has a lot to offer women looking for information on a whole host of subjects, including family, design, travel, mind and body, and more.
StumbleUpon
www.stumbleupon.com
Searching vs. Stumbling:
Using search engines to locate relevant content typically means hunting through pages of results. Rather than searching for quality web sites, StumbleUpon members are taken directly to web sites matching their personal interests and preferences.
People-Driven Technology:
Using a combination of human opinions and machine learning to immediately deliver relevant content, StumbleUpon presents only web sites which have been suggested by other like-minded Stumblers. Each time the 'Stumble' button is clicked, the user is presented with a high quality web site based on the collective opinions of other like-minded web surfers.
The StumbleUpon Toolbar is integrated with the user's browser to allow for one-click access to quality web sites. A simple 2-level rating system gives users the opportunity to pass on or give their opinion on any webpage with a single click. These ratings also connect people sharing unique combinations of interests. Stumblers share their favorite web sites and interact with other users to further improve their web surfing experience.
A Personalized Browsing Tool:
StumbleUpon offers nearly 500 topics which users may choose to indicate their interests and preferences so each Stumble produces only the most relevant content. StumbleUpon delivers increasingly relevant content as the Toolbar learns what the user has liked in the past and continues to present quality web sites in the future.
Combats Information Overload:
Information on the Internet changes rapidly. StumbleUpon is a dynamic approach to keep on top of this ever-evolving pool of knowledge. StumbleUpon filters through the vast amount of information on the web to direct Stumblers to high quality web sites which are relevant to their personal interests. An obscure but interesting site can be immediately shared with other like-minded users. Old or low-quality sites can be removed if their ratings become too low. The participation of community members helps maintain a database of the most up-to-date and highest quality sites possible.
Dropjack
The key to using Dropjack, like all social
networking site is to make friends, comment on other articles and vote a lot.
This always leads to reciprocal voting
DropJack.com is a social content website powered by users
. Anyone familiar with the popular Digg.com site will understand how DropJack works.
Register as a member - submit content - vote on content.
It's that simple.
The more votes (jacks) a story receives, the better placement it receives on the site.
About Ma.gnolia
http://ma.gnolia.com
What is Ma.gnolia? To understand Ma.gnolia completely, let us tell you a story. It’s a story we like to call “And on the First Day, There was Search.”
Really, on the first day there was just one web page. Then there were two, and a link was made between them. Before long, there were lots of web pages, with many many links between them, and suddenly we needed specialized web sites to help us find other web sites. And the term ‘search engine’ became part of our new web vocabulary. What a change those search engines made.
Things are different now. Even the best search engines can’t always be sure of what you want to find in the thousands of pages it finds on every search. And with so many pages, searching has been getting tough. Websites can be misleading about how good they are or what content they really hold. But we can’t blame the poor search engine for this. It’s just software. But what if a person could look at every page on the internet and make sure it showed up only in the right searches? Sounds nice, but wouldn’t we all have to pay hundreds of dollars a month just to search?
But that’s exactly what Ma.gnolia does. At Ma.gnolia, members save websites as bookmarks, just like in their browser. Except with a twist: they also “tag” them, assigning labels that make them easy to find again. So when you search for something, you use words that people choose and look only at websites that people think are worth saving. Suddenly you have access to a human-organized bookmark collection that numbers in the millions, but is as easy to use as a search engine.
With Ma.gnolia, that’s really all the work you have to do. Finding by tags makes organizing bookmarks a thing of the past. Since it’s a website, your Ma.gnolia bookmark collection can be reached by you and your friends from anywhere, any time. And don’t worry about web pages disappearing from your searches or even the web, as we make a saved copy of each page you bookmark where websites allow us to.
If searching was the first day of the web, people helping each other find what they want must be the second. Give Ma.gnolia a try to see what we mean when we say Found is the New Search.
Wikia search
There was an early project, called "3apes", which started in September 2002. This had been a directory-style search enginein March 2004 the Search Wikia project replaced 3apes. Then, this site was founded by Jimbo Wales in July 2004, and it served as a sounding board for ideas and development of a free/open source search engine with user-editable search results. ]
As of October 2004, this site was called "Wikia". There were two parts to the project: this wiki, and software which was at a beta stage and had not been publicly launched (the software was named "Wikiasari" in November 2005 but this name will not be used for the new search project).
The software was a front-end to a database of URLs with information such as keywords, ratings, and whether the URL was adult-oriented. There were more than 300,000 URLs in the database at last count
In 2005, this site became rather inactive due to several reasons, and stayed like this up to the end of 20
In the meantime, as of March 2006, the name Wikia was given to the wiki hosting service previously known as "Wikicities" (see About Wikia), leaving this project no name other than the name previously given to its search engine software, Wikiasari. Most of the former content of this site were moved to Central Wikia.
As of November/December 2006 the idea to work again on the development of an open source search engine was revisited.
