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.
Interesting how the Yahoo Buzz buttons are almost EVERYWHERE now. Props To Mixx.
It does appear to be less Dependant on Top Members like Digg is - but it still does not bring comparable traffic
What about del.icio.us?
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.
I wish NYT would do that for my site
lol
Good news for bloggers.Great that Mixx successfully competes with old Digg.
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.
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…
This means nothing. How much did Mixx pay/barter to get this? Did anyone even bother to ask???
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?
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.
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.
I am confused…here in India its showing NEWSVINE and delicious…no Mixx or Y! Buzz…I could have sent you the screenshot.
Another good reason why Google needs Digg.
Sadly, it’s worthless though as you can’t share articles that are behind a log in.
could somebody else confirm this? The only options i see is Facebook, delicious, digg, and newswine….no Mixx!!
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?
That is a amazing accomplishment, I don’t even see reddit on there, unless it was cropped off.
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?
I can see a Mixx button in Toronto.
@9 and @11
I completely agree. This means nothing. Mixx paid for that placement.
for all anybody knows, a contact of one of NYT’s dev team simply called and asked to have it added.
“MIXX gets 6th Techcrunch mention” is far more impressive than “MIXX gets button on NY Times.