Comments on: Mixx Democratizes Categories: Something Digg Should Have

By: Mixx Experiments With New Advertising Feedback Platform Called Sifter | CHARGED's Digital Lifestyle at Work or Play

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:32:36 +0000

[...] an innovative new advertising platform called Mixx Sifter. Frankly, and we’ve written this before with other Mixx features, this is something Digg should have [...]

By: Trade Jim News » Mixx Experiments With New Advertising Feedback Platform Called Sifter

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:45:51 +0000

[...] an innovative new advertising platform called Mixx Sifter. Frankly, and we’ve written this before with other Mixx features, this is something Digg should have [...]

By: Mixx Gets Serious About Community Building · ordaso.com

Mixx Gets Serious About Community Building · ordaso.com — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:02:07 +0000

[...] competitor Mixx just launched an extension to its groups feature that founder Chris McGill describes as “Ning for social [...]

By: Mixx Gets Serious About Community Building

Mixx Gets Serious About Community Building — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:30:53 +0000

[...] competitor Mixx just launched an extension to its groups feature that founder Chris McGill describes as “Ning for social [...]

By: Newsflash: Digg Admits It’s Rigged and Just a Game | TechConsumer

Newsflash: Digg Admits It’s Rigged and Just a Game | TechConsumer — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:00:51 +0000

[...] you press when pointing out how your competitors are doing more to innovate in less time (such as creating groups, a news clustering feature, private mail, breaking news faster, [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Mixxの新機能―新着ニュースをDiggよりずっとすばやくトップページに表示

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Mixxの新機能―新着ニュースをDiggよりずっとすばやくトップページに表示 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:55:06 +0000

[...] ローンチしたのは昨年の9月と、ごく新しいにもかかわらず、Mixxは矢継ぎ早に多くの機能を追加している。グループ機能が12月に、続いて2月にプライベート・メールが、同じく2月にクラスター化が追加された。これは私が長年Diggの問題と考えていた点、つまり同じ事件を報じる複数の記事がそれぞれ異なった投稿として処理される点を、類似記事をクラスター化することによって解決しようというものだ。新機能では、同じ事件を報じる複数のニュースソースがあった場合、ユーザーは最初の記事に関連した、ただし別の記事を追加投稿できる。これによって同じ事件に関する複数の記事が票を食い合うという事態が避けられるし、読者は同じスペースの中でより多様な記事を読むことができる。 [...]

By: Mixx’s New Feature Aims To Get Breaking News To Home Page Faster Than Digg : Online media news summary of todays online advertising news

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:55:16 +0000

[...] launching just last September, Mixx has been on a tear to release new products. Groups came in December, followed by private mail in Februrary. Also in February they released a [...]

By: Digg Competitor Mixx Takes $2 Million Series B

Digg Competitor Mixx Takes $2 Million Series B — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:55:17 +0000

[...] including former executives from Yahoo!, AOL, USA TODAY and The Associated Press. The company has regularly launched new features in an attempt to stand out in a market place with strongly entrenched [...]

By: Mixx To Cluster Related Stories - Digg Should Have Done This | TechJunkies

Mixx To Cluster Related Stories - Digg Should Have Done This | TechJunkies — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:16:12 +0000

[...] Related Stories – Digg Should Have Done This Digg competitor Mixx continues to impress us with new features (although the exodus of Digg users to them may have been short lived). A new feature [...]

By: Reddit announces the ability to create your own reddit site | Social CMS Buzz

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:03:14 +0000

[...] are following closely in the footsteps of mixx which democratized categories back in December 2007. Digg arguably the largest social news site on the Internet have still to [...]

By: Azam Khan

Azam Khan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:07:12 +0000

Hi,
sorry about that. I guess I quoted a bad source.

and no I don’t “troll”. I got better things to do with my life.

By: Horst

Horst — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:07:14 +0000

I also somehow fail the real novelty of this feature. Didn’t for instance Newsvine have this since … well, right when it was started or at least shortly afterwards?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:52:12 +0000

@azam -

Mixx doesn’t even have a deal with Time magazine. And the deal with LA Times does not mean their search results are favored. Some idiot got that idea by misreading the press release, and it was then debunked.

Are you just trolling?

By: JadedTLC

JadedTLC — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:55:47 +0000

When will social networks start banding together? I wish that would happen so I could bind all of my logins together.

By: azam

azam — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:54:12 +0000

Mixx is going to favor TIME magazine’s content in search results because of their deal. this is the beginning of their end?

By: JadedTLC

JadedTLC — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:53:46 +0000

The problem with Mixx is that it’s design is so old. SodaHead does better than Digg and Mixx, with a dash of widgetry.

By: nanda

nanda — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:52:49 +0000

can you share something about digg vs mixx vs popdup.com ?

By: DavidEzra

DavidEzra — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:32:36 +0000

I’ll be the first to admit that I do not now much about either Ron Paul or those who support him. However, I do have a question about the effectiveness of Mixx in enabling the “Ron Paul Crowd” to get the job done – for whatever job it is that they are trying to get done.

In other words, you mentioned that Ron Paul supporters would be able to create their own group on Mixx with just Ron Paul stories. And that is where the crux of my question centers.

Do Ron Paul zealots – or anyone else with a cause – want to (1) preach to the choir and (2) read yet more literature about their pet cause, OR, are they “out on a mission to convert everyone else to their cause?”

In other words, do creating groups defeat the purpose of what they are trying to accomplish? By creating a group, it automatically “walls them off” from the very people to whom they are trying to reach, which runs counter to why they are expending so much time and effort in making the posts in the first place. It would seem that these individuals make contributions to sites like Digg not so much so that others who share the same view can relish in the new found information, but so that others who do not share the same opinion might be swayed?

By: aerojad

aerojad — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:06:03 +0000

Mixx > Digg. True story.

reddit > everyone else, btw.

By: Overuse Bubble

Overuse Bubble — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:05:24 +0000

Is TechCrunch invested in Mixx or something? They mention it too many times in relation to the quality of the site. There have been digg clones out there for years that have features like Mixx is just adding now.

By: johnrob

johnrob — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:38:28 +0000

Anyone want to help me make a mixx clone? We’ll wait until mixx is crowded with a bunch of rude assholes, and then well market this clone as a better version of mixx, without all of the assholes. Techcrunch will pick it up at least 3 times.

By: Trae Dorn

Trae Dorn — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:33:37 +0000

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that news sites where priority is picked by crowds is a relatively bad idea?

People en masse are generally a stupid lot, and I’m not sure I’d want to read what they’ve picked in the first place. :-p

By: SilentJay74

SilentJay74 — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:29:34 +0000

Some of the reader who left comment earlier fail to realize a few things.
You can customize Mixx. Hence the “Your Mixx” section. You can follow technology just like you can in Digg. I was an avid Digg user then moved over to Mixx after Greg Davies got banned. He is a freind of mine so I thought I would check it out. Now I am more active on Mixx then I am at Digg. Don’t get me wrong, I am not bashing Digg, it has it’s strong points. I have found the community at Mixx to be more polite though.
Also the feature in Mixx have improved it’s functionality and usability. Guess where they got the idea for these features…the users. This is another strong point on Mixx. The founder Chris McGill, and his staff are constantly involved with their users. If you send an e-mail to Mixx feadback, they actually get back to, and not some generic e-mail saying “Thanks for your concern.” You will get an e-mail from a staff member and they thrive on your feedback good or bad. They realize that the site is USER GENERATED CONTENT. This more then I can say for a few other sites.
As far as the comment “If I want to read news I will go to Digg,” Head over to Mixx and click the NEWS tab. Try it, it works.
If you would also check out some releases from Kevin Rose he said they are thinking about brining awards to the Digg community. Mixx has been doing that since launch. How long did it take for Digg to get a picture section? Mixx had it at launch. Don’t knock it until you roll up your sleeves, and get in the Mix.

By: nanda

nanda — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:29:20 +0000

http://www.popdup.com

By: underage gal

underage gal — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:24:44 +0000

btw, cloning isn’t good. we don’t really need three sites of the same thing, then later an aggregation site above it. then again 3 clones of the aggregation sites…