Newsvine hasn’t launched yet, but the founder and CEO Mike Davidson has posted about what it will be once it does.
Newsvine will be a collaborative, social news site. Like other sites, Newsvine will show major news publications. However, readers can comment on news items, allowing for a discussion to ensue.
They are also adding tagging. Any user can bookmark a news piece (or any web page) with a tag such as “sports” or “Iraq” and it will become available at Newsvine under the URL newsvine.com/[TAG]. If you are interested in seeing news on a given tag, you can of course go straight to that URL as well.
Newsvine will use a voting system, like Digg, to determine how relevant a given news item is. I think these user-determined ranking systems, like Digg and Memeorandum, are a great way to push good content to the top. I’m looking forward to seeing this live. (Via Steven Cohen and Om Malik).
when i read mike’s post i thought the concept sounds quite a lot like digg.
i guess i’ll have to wait for the launch to find out what’s it all about.
amusing a story on digg is right below.
want to include newsvine in the alexa chart?
regards, nader
From the linked post:
“Newsvine is a news company, not a Web 2.0 company
Our site doesn’t rely on Ajax, RSS, Wikis, or any of the other technologies you may be hearing about way too often these days.”
From the Techcrunch website:
“TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new web 2.0 products and companies.”
I’m confused!
Newsvine is just trying to aim at a mainstream audience. Don’t know why they wrote that, but I made a decision that they were relevant to the discussion.
Michael is right. The line about “not being a Web 2.0 company” is just to ensure that the focus here is on product, audience, and benefits… not technology. The emphatic and influential .01% of the world who knows what Web 2.0 really *is* cares about the technology, and that’s just great. But all the rest of the world cares about is “is this site useful to me” and that’s what we’re trying to concentrate on.
Thanks for the writeup by the way, Michael.
I’m really interested in how social news sites hold up in 2006 which is a mid-election year.
I expect plenty of self-interested partisan hacks to work overtime to manipulate these sites to their political point-of-view. What safeguards are being put in place to prevent partisans from infiltrating these news social sites?
The 2006 election year may make or break the social news sites credibility altogether and make mainstream media executives smile or frown.
man,
ANOTHER social news site?
there are TONNES of them out there:
http://digg.com
http://www.gabbr.com
http://www.plastic.com
http://www.newsback.com
they all have features similar to what newsvine is trying to hype — get over it! this is so old!
You missed reddit.com - which usually has better results than any of the ones listed here.
CommonTimes does this today.
http://www.commontimes.org
Mike, while it’s true that Memeorandum indirectly uses the rankings of users to drive what’s included, I would hesitate to mention Digg and Memeorandum in the same genre _except_ for their output. Readers/users face a very high bar to influence Memeorandum (read: Gabe’s highly tuned algorithms)… whether that’s positive or negative, judge for yourself.
m’inviter si vous plait
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I find it interesting that so many are comparing this to Digg. Yes, you have the capability to alert others in the community of a news story and comment on it like you can do on Digg, but you also have the capability to write up new and original news stories covering topics that you wouldn’t normally find and then collaborate on them as a community.
it is intresting
Very cool design! Useful information. Go on!k