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Ankle-deep in the Newspond
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Michael 4 months ago with 1 point
Their rhetoric and design sure got them a lot of attention for launch.
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While I'm a sucker for a pretty site, unless I'm missing something, I don't see an RSS feed. Perhaps it's unfair, but to me that suggests a prioritisation of aesthetics over usability.
So Newspond is basically perfect for use on a MacBook Air ;) -
Good one, Nav :-)
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Disqus -
Matthew -
The first thought I had when I saw this was Pligg without RSS. -
The second thought I had was "Techmeme, with a third the amount of information, in Pligg format, without RSS."
That wasn't as catchy, though.
I'm with you - not sure what people are wowed about on this. The bubbled up items aren't that impressive. -
I agree, James.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Disqus -
well, I tried to use Digg exactly 3 times. WIthin minutes, my two images and my one story all "disappeared" or buried or whatever they say. If there was any reason, I was unable to figure out how to see it. I just couldn't find my stuff. So I never tried again. I wonder how many other people are like me, who get irritated by getting buried for unknown reasons and just leave, thus diminishing the aggregrate component of the site? Maybe a new one without those users will attract others. [Maybe the users who have a lot of the control of Digg and Wikipedia's fanatical editors are the same.] I'll try it as a welcome alternative if I am able to actually get somewhere with it.
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As far as I can tell, Antje, the site doesn't have any user input
other than comments -- no ability to submit or vote on a story or
link. That definitely solves the issue you're talking about, but it
makes it difficult to see it as anything other than a news aggregator
with comments -- i.e., not really a community of any kind (of course,
neither is Techmeme).
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Disqus -
right, i am mixing up my oddly-named start-ups now! :)
