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March 11, 2008

Mixx Gets Credibility Boost From NYTimes

Michael Arrington

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The New York Times tonight added Mixx bookmarking buttons on its site, which is an important milestone for the company. Facebook, Digg and Yahoo Buzz are the only other third party social bookmarking services that are offered.

The NYTimes doesn’t include well known and more established services like Delicious, Reddit and others on its pages (Delicious was bumped for Mixx). And since Mixx is only six months old, so this is an important sign of confidence in the young startup.

An example is here, just click on the “share” button to the right of the article.

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  1. Ryan Merket

    March 11th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    Interesting how the Yahoo Buzz buttons are almost EVERYWHERE now. Props To Mixx.

  2. SearcH◆ EngineS WEB

    March 11th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    It does appear to be less Dependant on Top Members like Digg is - but it still does not bring comparable traffic

  3. Chris Thomson

    March 11th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    What about del.icio.us? :(

  4. Judy Miller

    March 11th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    I would be curious to see how many tech readers still believe that New York times is worth a read. From what I hear it pretty much hit the rock bottom in terms of credibility and integrity.

  5. LiveCrunch

    March 11th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    I wish NYT would do that for my site :) lol

  6. Scabr

    March 11th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    Good news for bloggers.Great that Mixx successfully competes with old Digg.

  7. eszter

    March 11th, 2008 at 10:35 pm

    It’s annoying that with this new change they removed the del.icio.us option. Yesterday it was still available. Bummer. Now I have to go back to using the more tedious process of clicking on Permalink and then adding that to del.icio.us.

  8. John

    March 11th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    Why don’t they just use the Add to Any BOOKMARK button?

    http://www.addtoany.com/

    As evident, there’s many more than 4 social sites to send users to…

  9. harold

    March 11th, 2008 at 11:28 pm

    This means nothing. How much did Mixx pay/barter to get this? Did anyone even bother to ask???

  10. Ben

    March 11th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

    Echoing Harold’s comment - what did Mixx do for what seems to be clearly special treatment? It can’t be justified by its current traffic, particularly because of other much more heavily trafficked sites don’t appear.

    So, Mike - what’s the inside dope? Did Mixx pay for the placement or barter in some other way?

  11. evgen

    March 12th, 2008 at 12:11 am

    Since Mixx is backed by the LATimes, this smells more like a backroom deal between members of the dying dead-tree journalism biz than a real news story.

  12. Rocky

    March 12th, 2008 at 12:36 am

    Because in terms of content (user submissions) Digg, Reddit, and Mixx are so close to each other, I don’t see too many users trickling down to using Mixx anytime soon, NYT button or not.

  13. kuldeep

    March 12th, 2008 at 12:51 am

    I am confused…here in India its showing NEWSVINE and delicious…no Mixx or Y! Buzz…I could have sent you the screenshot.

  14. 113.com

    March 12th, 2008 at 2:51 am

    Another good reason why Google needs Digg.

  15. Tad Chef

    March 12th, 2008 at 3:00 am

    Sadly, it’s worthless though as you can’t share articles that are behind a log in.

  16. arjen

    March 12th, 2008 at 5:46 am

    could somebody else confirm this? The only options i see is Facebook, delicious, digg, and newswine….no Mixx!!

  17. Simon Ovidiu

    March 12th, 2008 at 5:58 am

    The New York Times tonight added Mixx bookmarking buttons on its site, which is an important milestone for the company. Facebook, Digg and Yahoo Buzz are the only other third party social bookmarking services that are offered.

    could somebody else confirm this?

  18. Dawson Jones

    March 12th, 2008 at 6:25 am

    That is a amazing accomplishment, I don’t even see reddit on there, unless it was cropped off.

  19. Ariel Diaz

    March 12th, 2008 at 6:27 am

    That’s funny, on my view of an article at nytimes.com it shows Delicioius, Digg, Facebook and Newsvine. No Yahoo Buzz or Mixx. I am in Boston. Perhaps they have regionalized versions? Or maybe they are beta testing Yahoo and Mixx in the Bay Area?

  20. Zillow

    March 12th, 2008 at 9:05 am

    I can see a Mixx button in Toronto.

  21. Joe M.

    March 12th, 2008 at 9:21 am

    @9 and @11

    I completely agree. This means nothing. Mixx paid for that placement.

  22. bloggo

    March 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am

    for all anybody knows, a contact of one of NYT’s dev team simply called and asked to have it added.

  23. johnrob

    March 12th, 2008 at 11:06 am

    “MIXX gets 6th Techcrunch mention” is far more impressive than “MIXX gets button on NY Times.

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