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Ankle-deep in the Newspond

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

I’m going to agree with Mike Arrington’s take on this one: Newspond, the new Digg-style news aggregator that just launched, is pretty much all eye-candy at the moment. Paul Glazowski at Mashable seems to think that’s enough — in fact, his revi ... Continue reading »

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  • Michael

    1 year ago

    Their rhetoric and design sure got them a lot of attention for launch.
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  • scrawledinwax

    1 year ago

    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 ;)
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Good one, Nav :-)

    On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Disqus
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  • James Lewin

    1 year ago

    Matthew -

    The first thought I had when I saw this was Pligg without RSS.
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  • James Lewin

    1 year ago

    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.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    I agree, James.


    On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Disqus
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  • antje wilsch

    1 year ago

    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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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    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
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  • antje wilsch

    1 year ago

    right, i am mixing up my oddly-named start-ups now! :)
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