There are many sites that show trending links across the web including TweetMeme, Topsy, and Bit.ly. Recently launched splurb is now in the mix with its site that shows the most popular links that are trending on social media sites. splurb currently indexes Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, TweetMeme, Yahoo Buzz and Fark.
Splurb tallies the number of votes from the various sites and number of sources that list links. The more sources that cite a link, the larger the story appears on splurb. To get listed, a link must be popular on at least two social websites.
The site’s founder, Bill Chasen, said he created splurb because the most popular content on the web has a tendency to repeatedly show up on the seven hubs which are indexed. From there, he says, content then moves to blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and other forms of social media. I’m not so sure about that statement, but I do think that sites like TweetMeme and Topsy help us understand what links and news are trending on the web. To a certain degree, these sites are able to help us understand the importance of certain links vs. others.
Of course, Chasen says that splurb is not a replacement to its competitors, but rather serves as another layer for people to discover the best content without having to dig deep into each site.
This might be good idea, actually…it sounds good, anyway.
I think it is great and will use it with my http://www.tweetiator.com account to see who is tweeting links to my clients’ content.
It does sound like a good idea but its getting a bit repetitive as most new companies are working on a similar concept.
Across Social Media Sites is a great web site
am glad I found it
I don’t understand why so many companies try to do the same thing again and again. I don’t think it’s that big a deal to find popular links across social media websites. There is no significant technology involved in it. It’s required to differentiate a company. In my opinion, companies in this lot like http://www.boilingpage.com do have significant technology differentiator and a great value proposition as they convert unstructured tweets to structured data using techniques like NLP. Perhaps many companies are using their statistical data.
LOL. Danny Sullivan? Yeah right. I’m gonna assume that was the Boiling Page guy.
Danny….young lad.
Part of the process since the 90’s has been to redefine traffic mechanisms. The natural progression is to find better methods of growing massive traffic networks. Especially for people who seek the “Holy Grail” of internet projects. Each morning you get up to see how your site traffic has increased and soon it turns into a obsession of sorts.
I suppose it is difficult to speculate what is innovative and what is re-purposing. The methodology involved in getting something like slurb to become popular is innovation.
Looking at Boilingpage I can see it is more or less a re-hash of all the “stuff” we see on a daily basis. You can see the use of the Yahoo Widgets and code splices. There are even code tags in the source that shows this was a hack job of many scripts. There is some custom code joining these scripts into a cohesive project. I would guess that with some help of other innovators with some skill you could make this popular. i would start with a better template and logo
My guess is the owner of BoilingPage is either a coder OR a innovator who has some coding help.
In any case its sites like Slurb that has its roots in “Thumb Nail Gallery Post” (TGP) sites when Porn was the equivalent to 2009 Social Site traffic. Taking MASS Traffic sites like Slurb and converting it to make money is the big question. If Slurb can be used to convert users into other more profitbale traffic then Slurb wins….
So the “innovation” could be in the philosophy of the innovators who create sites like BoilingPage and Slurb.
This philosophy is more exciting to me than the next big “Twitter” which is what most seem to use as a marker for innovation and success.
If the innovator is pulling $30,000+ USD a month personal income then that is the innovation and brilliant thinking we need to see more of…..
Since the mid 1990’s thats what I try to do….make the money in an organic sustainable way.
Just my 2 pennies of jibber-jabber
I just think that it’s just too much information on those sites. People can’t handle all that everyday. So what happens is: they never come back.
exactly, or they dont go to begin with. especially when there are already established sites like digg and reddit.
I agree, sometimes too much information is enough to turn people away.. and some.. don’t come back.. with soooo much out there in the way of social media, there is a lot to digest let alone get involved with.
boring. people need to stop trying to copy digg.
I instantly like this better than the others.
The top five are real news stories. I’m sick of the lowest common denominator running digg and the like.
So it’s just another copy of popurls
Yeah, popurls is exactly what I was thinking.
Do any of these sites have a time scope adjustment?
I’d like to adjust the algorhtym to show me what is newly trending – I saw the meat hand and Ft. Hood days ago.
Pft. don’t answer that, I see digg has it. I never use digg. Splurb has such a simple and noninvasive UI compared to digg – I’m an instant fan!
*algorithm
Great idea, and simple. Bookmarked
Layers over layers over layers.. no regulation and no organization. There’s no end to this.
bang on. this site is maxwell house. 1 type of coffee for everyone.
no one creates a digg-like site for zombie fans. and if someone did, it would get 0 press. but where is the best place for zombie fans to get their news today?
Kinda stupid analogy, but the idea is we should build sites that cater to the niches…not regurgitate for the masses.
To me, these kinda websites are all the same.:)
Agree-Great idea, and simple
Just to be clear, the Danny Sullivan commenting above isn’t the same Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land (me). This is the second time I’ve seen this other Danny Sullivan commenting here on search issues at TechCrunch. Well, I’m not the only Danny Sullivan out there. But if you want to know if it’s the one from Search Engine Land, I’ll now comment via my Facebook account (which sucks, because Facebook doesn’t provide a link back to my site but rather theirs, convenient that, eh?). But it does provide some form of a verified identity.
just want to add that popular links are not the same as trending topics. trending topics usually need to be discovered from contents or search queries. Examples are twitter trending topics (discovered from tweets), google trends (mostly determined by search terms), and web2express digest (discovered from tweets/blogs/news). popular links may talk about one or more trending topics at the same time.
http://retweet.com has also earned its place.
Thanks, but no – We already have popurls.com which does all of the above and gives you personal recommendations along with sharing and stuff.