Egads! They put my picture in The Wall Street Journal today along with about 20 other avid participants in the social news world. The article discusses the influence of social news and some of the ways that influence is brokered.
They interviewed me a couple of times over the last few months for this article. It […]
I just noticed something kind of funny. Go to Google, type in “digg clone site” (without quotes) and hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.
Good times.
Recently, Mu implored upon the Netscape community to not abuse the site-mail feature. I agree with Mu. Site-mail has been integral in putting the “social” in “social news” on Netscape. But there is a fine line between being social and being a nuisance. Mass site-mailing every submission you make to everyone on your friend list […]
Since I haven’t seen this noted anywhere, I just wanted to point out that Netscape passed a milestone on December 24, 2006 when they reached 100,000 registered users. That’s nothing to sneeze at after 6 months.
By comparison, Digg took 11 months to reach that milestone, but they were filling a relatively unestablished niche at the […]
For a while now, Netscape Anchors have been producing video casts that report on all types of events such as movie reviews, ComicCon and IFA. Today, with very little fanfare, Netscape rolled out support for a proprietary syndicated online video format. The video below is an example:
If you watch through to the end of the […]
After having used Netscape heavily for over a month now, I have noticed numerous differences between it and Digg. One such difference is that Netscape does not have a method for users to mark stories as lame. Anchors have the final say on when a story is removed from the system. This is pretty key […]
User Scott-O-Rama on Netscape asked me if I would make a FeedBurner FeedFlare that lets people submit items from their feeds to Netscape. What a great idea!
I have created a FeedBurner FeedFlare which adds a link that reads “Submit To Netscape” to your feed items. When it is clicked, it submits your item to Netscape […]
This morning, The Washington Post ran an article about the recent buzz around social bookmarking and Netscape’s move to pay people to do it. Many of my new colleagues at Netscape, as well as myself, were interviewed for the article. The article turned out great as an overview of the current landscape of professional bookmarking.
It […]
Netscape has a very handy JavaScript widget for publishers to put in their content. The widget checks if your content has been submitted to Netscape. If it hasn’t been submitted, a submit button is placed on your page as shown below:
If it has already been submitted, it displays the number of votes and comments, with […]
The political categories of socially driven news sites are unlike any others. Submitters are treated differently than they are in other categories. Stories and commenters are also treated differently. Users are banding together to get stories promoted which push agendas. These factors and others are affecting how well social bookmarking sites can report political stories.
Digg […]
