Newsvine

March 5, 2006

Just wanted to bring up a new site called Newsvine. You can read more about it on TechCrunch, and an alternative opinion by Paul Kedrsoky. I haven’t started using it heavily yet, but its another source of news, and like Digg, and other sites, leverages the “social web”. It is a trend, which along with blogs and RSS, many of us will be following carefully. Will it work? I am not sure. I am always worried (and Digg is a great example) of stories with more depth getting buried.

That saids Newsvine is a lovely website, pleasing to read and has a chance, over time, to compete with Google News, BBC News, Digg and Memeorandum. Newsvine is also like a blog network in some ways, allowing users to contribute articles and essentially maintain a column which people can subscribe too. This is in addition to contributing articles a la Digg by a process they call seeding. Newsvine also has sections on science, tech, health and business that I will be keeping a close eye on.

One thing I would like to note is the sheer amount of information overload and duplication (not just for news). Organizing, managing and keeping up is not getting any easier. I am sure over the next couple of years as the whole web 2.0 hoopla starts dying down, there will be a few sites which will emerge and become the standards. Will Newsvine be one of them? I think it has a good chance. Now to get more people hooked into the whole social media experiment and not just the techies and political pundits of the world.

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