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By: Terbaik.Net » Blog Archive » Mixx’s New Feature Aims To Get Breaking News To Home Page Faster Than Digg

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:41:14 +0000

[…] Groups came in December, followed by private mail in Februrary. Also in February they released a clustering feature that I think would fix a big problem at Digg - duplicate stories describing the same event. With […]

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[…] 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 loyalties to […]

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By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:14:42 +0000

@34 … clearly you were thinking of “tailRank” not “coRank” … of course coRank looks nothing like tailRank… hehehe. and no, tailRank hasn’t updated their stuff any… and yeah. they cluster stories and techCrunch rips them to shreds. hehehe. oh well.

By: fatlester

fatlester — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:12:18 +0000

Mixx is clearly setting the pace in this three-way marathon (four if you count reddit). Between being first with photos, videos and now this - it is becoming more and more evident that the people running Mixx are a lot smarter than the brains behind their competitors. I wish I could buy stock in Mixx….

By: edith

edith — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:02:49 +0000

@36:
the difference is you are doing it algorithmically and don’t relate videos and photos and blogs and all else. People doing it makes a big difference from what is essentially a search result from newsvine. Not that what newsvine is doing is bad, but there is a difference.

By: socialcmsbuzz.com

socialcmsbuzz.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:41:34 +0000

Mixx To Cluster Related Stories - Digg Should Have Done This…

A new feature launches this week on Mixx called Related Items. It solves a common problem found on Digg and other sites where multiple articles on the same story compete with each other to get to the home page. One person may submit a story from USATod…

By: Scott Easterday

Scott Easterday — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:00:10 +0000

I actually had an idea for this type of relations wish I acted on it.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:21:06 +0000

I *really* hate to be the “we did this years ago” guy, but we’ve been doing this (and just about everything else Mixx seems to be adding) at Newsvine almost since the beginning. Duplicate stories based on URL? Got it. Related stories based on content of article? Check. In fact, we database the full text of stories that aren’t even hosted on our site… so if, say, someone seeds a TechCrunch article about YouTube getting acquired and then the AP writes about it, there is a link placed automatically at the end of each article, pointing to the other. No editors… all automatically via algorithm.

Also, I think groups were what the last Mixx writeup was about. We’ve had public, private, and secret groups for about a year and a half or so.

Anyway, not dissing Mixx at all… good job Mixxers. Just pointing out that they are following smartly and not leading, which is often a better strategy anyway. Heck, we weren’t the first to have groups either.

By: nanda

nanda — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:09:18 +0000

Why you guys just stick with digg, digg -> ready to more features ->

An emerging local news,videos powered by users, a good competitor for digg &
mixx.

http://popdup.com

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:04:06 +0000

i was gonna mention, laughably, that CoRank clusters related items, too… then i went to CoRank (something i never do) to verify and saw that major changes have been made… if you thought it was bad before, you aint seen nothing… it’s terrible now!!!

a lot of commenters are talking about “luck” lately like it’s a major deciding factor or something… again, put Mixx and CoRank side by side…. what’s that about luck? They won’t need luck to overcome digg… they will need to consistently improve their product and give the users what they want… they need to work hard. It’s not about luck.

By: eVIPList

eVIPList — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:35:40 +0000

While sites like Mixx and Digg do a great job at aggregating content for the tech audience what about other niches? We decided to address this question and created a social bookmarking site for African Americans. It is based on modded version of Pligg and we launch in January. Check us out if you are looking for content for the urban audience.

By: omer

omer — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:14:16 +0000

wow, that’s a nice post.

By: physio

physio — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:12:54 +0000

I just wanted to point out that you have a typo in your quote of the message from Mixx. You put “Or at least one startling similar” but it should read “…startlingly similar.’

This sounds like a great feature for Mixx. However, it seems to me that Mixx is going to have to have some much more significant additional features and perhaps some good luck to ever overcome Digg.

By: The Web RoundUp: Feb 19, 2008 : unitedBIT

The Web RoundUp: Feb 19, 2008 : unitedBIT — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:04:52 +0000

[…] Digg competitor Mixx continues to impress us with new features. A new feature launches this week on Mixx called Related Items. It solves a common problem found on Digg and other sites where multiple articles on the same story compete with each other to get to the home page. While Digg unable to determine if stores are related. The Related Items feature on Mixx flags a submission when it thinks that a story is similar.The user submitting the related story can then choose to submit it anyway, or add it as a related item to the previous submission. Digg also flags stories that may be similar to other submissions, but does not offer the ability to cluster the new story to the old ones. More at TechCrunch […]

By: Technicle

Technicle — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:04:38 +0000

@27
I’d certainly second that but then, people (me included) post here not only wanting to be heard, but also are prepared to be “crunched” also… particularly our first[trade]name is called tech

By: drew olanoff

drew olanoff — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:01:21 +0000

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I think Mixx’s advantage is the potential in their location based submissions. As this type of news generation becomes more mainstream (see iReport on CNN), Mixx could be poised to steal that market away from Digg.

This feature is nice, but I agree that Digg could do something similar.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:44:37 +0000

I don’t know what is new about this feature.. Indianpad, a Indian centered digg clone has this feature right from the day i joined it.. (should be a year back)..

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:37:35 +0000

Also, Mike - I think your reaction to Technicle’s comment (#5) was a bit harsh. He is entitled to an opinion, regardless of his startup experience. I understand your point (and live it each day as an entrepreneur), but you came down pretty hard on the guy!

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:34:30 +0000

There is nothing wrong with being number 3 in this space. Online news is a huge market, and there is plenty of room for innovation and new players. The usual reaction of ‘Just another social news site’ doesnt really work with me. Google was just another search engine. Lets give these guys a chance and the market will decide their fate, not us posting comments on this blog.

By: kuldeep

kuldeep — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:29:09 +0000

They shouldn’t have given this power to keep stories in one related post, as it may misused in long term and may bear unexpected results. Should have followed Techmeme type algorightm, so that readers can rely on it.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:28:13 +0000

Might want to checkout newspond.com, it was just launched

It looks better than all of them IMHO

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:04:02 +0000

45,000 and climbing.

Mixx wins for me just because the community is less hostile. I tired to use Digg but was always met with rude and obnoxious users/comments.

Mixx does a better job at catering to the user. If you ask, they will listen and will take your suggestions and try to implement them into the upcoming releases. I know there numbers do not compare with that of Reddit or Digg but I know in time they will. There is too much passion and hard work behind the product for it to not.

Transparency: I do know some of the mixx developers but this is not why I use the site. I use apps/products that make my life easier and allow me to take daily tasks and shrink the amount of time those tasks normally take. Mixx does this. I get my news from mixx instead of printed papers, or scouring all the news sites out there. Sure there are other sites, but the design, user experience and overall karma coming out of the company is what has drawn me. If you use the site for a bit and stop being “the critic” I think you will embrace it also.

By: w2i

w2i — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:56:15 +0000

Digg seems to be having 25M uniques/mo according to Quantcast and since the site is quantified this number can be taken for real. Both Reddit (~1M/mo) and Mixx (~40K/mo) are not quantified, but the Quantcast’s numbers seem to be matching the Comscore’s.

By: Myaboo

Myaboo — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:52:07 +0000

the problem with both platforms is that they are not open enough to make it easier to find what users need and what they want. They can’t find new ideas that they can implement because the ideas and suggestions are scatttered on different blogs and websites. Good opportunities are there for those who want to seize them. Making digg or mixx a more friendly and pro-user space should be a priority otherwise they will end up losing users to competitors.

For now Digg is ahead in the race, but for how long we don’t know. If it want to keep the crown, Digg should create a section where users will be able to submit ideas and not only stories // vote on ideas and not only on stories.

They need something more than a forum(which btw they don’t have).