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So how's this different from Digg - submit news to different categories, which sounded like what you News Network is about, except Digg does not allow you to cr

So how's this different from Digg - submit news to different categories, which sounded like what you News Network is about, except Digg does not allow you to create your own category (aka your News Networks) which I see as a plus. However, wouldn't there it be hard to find News Network from 600 "News network" with only 2000 users. What happens when you have 20000 users and 6000 News network. Finding a News Network could be a nightmare.. no? I think you guys are using Rails, but the site is just so dogslow, why? Perhaps consider adding more mongrel instances, are your servers hitting its load with only 2000 users? The slowness of the site sorted of turned me off when I first tried the site. Remember social news is a tough market to fight in, so the first impression counts. I also suggest you post your design competition on 99designs.com, I'm not sure how many people knows about your design competition. A $1000 prize would definitely draw a lot of entries. Any finally, is Jason Goldberg - the Jason Goldberg from Jobster? Just curious.

khangtoh 18y ago
What about newsvine? I believe you guys are awfully similar.
- socialmedian 18y ago
  Hey guys. This is Jason Goldberg, from former Jobster. I started working on socialmedian in January. The team is myself and 9 awesome guys/gals in Pune, India. We're going scrappy, throwing stuff out there and figuring it out as we go. Some key differences between what we're doing and Digg, Newsvine: -news networks --> everything starts with topical networks that members create and join and have full control of -members can feed in news from any number of sources into their news networks, not just rely on user submissions. IN fact, upon entering some topics (like keywords), we go crawl the web and suggest sources the might want to include. -today, all news networks on socialmedian are public -- anyone can create and join them. soon, we'll also layer on private networks -Everything on socialmedian revolves around the member's personalized feed on their homepage. Our algo offers up a personalized view on the news unique to each user based on their interests. We'll also be layering on some unique types of filters (e.g. know what certain types of people are reading) more on the way :) it's early. only been at it 2 months Join 3-4 news networks, create 1, and then check out your homepage. Then give us some feedback as to how to make this work for you.

khangtoh 18y ago

What about newsvine? I believe you guys are awfully similar.

socialmedian 18y ago
Hey guys. This is Jason Goldberg, from former Jobster. I started working on socialmedian in January. The team is myself and 9 awesome guys/gals in Pune, India. We're going scrappy, throwing stuff out there and figuring it out as we go. Some key differences between what we're doing and Digg, Newsvine: -news networks --> everything starts with topical networks that members create and join and have full control of -members can feed in news from any number of sources into their news networks, not just rely on user submissions. IN fact, upon entering some topics (like keywords), we go crawl the web and suggest sources the might want to include. -today, all news networks on socialmedian are public -- anyone can create and join them. soon, we'll also layer on private networks -Everything on socialmedian revolves around the member's personalized feed on their homepage. Our algo offers up a personalized view on the news unique to each user based on their interests. We'll also be layering on some unique types of filters (e.g. know what certain types of people are reading) more on the way :) it's early. only been at it 2 months Join 3-4 news networks, create 1, and then check out your homepage. Then give us some feedback as to how to make this work for you.