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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2007/08/30/mashable-is-a-top-undiscovered-site/

  • brian · 2 years ago
    Why do you have to go through a slide show of all 100 sites, one at a time, to access any single site? Who designs shit like this?
  • Pete · 2 years ago
    You can access them direct, but it automatically runs the slideshow regardless. Fairly annoying.
  • micropat · 2 years ago
  • Chris · 2 years ago
    Mashable should be in Top 100 Popular sites not in Undiscovered sites.
  • brandon · 2 years ago
    I don't think they even took the time to put that list together... most of the sites on there aren't even worth mentioning.
  • Ruan Caiman · 2 years ago
    I found a few sites on this list that I've been regularly using for a few months. I wonder how they decide whether a site's been discovered.

    FYI Pete - PC World, which you credit in your post, is not the same as PC Magazine, where the article is.
  • Pete · 2 years ago
    Fixed, thanks.
  • elvirs · 2 years ago
    may be they mean it in terms of tens of new articles published on mashable that people could not read all:)
  • bob cobb · 2 years ago
    114k rss readers and its undiscovered hahahah
  • msthilaire · 2 years ago
    I think they have a broad definition of 'undiscovered'. Some of these sites have a pretty high alexa ranking and millions of users. thats undiscovered?
  • Jimmy Huen · 2 years ago
    You have to think in terms of the target audience and the general consumers. To them, anything other than Google and Yahoo are pretty much undiscovered.

    99% of the people I know off-line don't know what the heck Mashable or Techcrunch are. To them, most sites we know like the back of our hands are undiscovered, even though they use the Internet everyday.
  • trade games GURU · 2 years ago
    how did we not make this list??? :(
  • Mark Evans · 2 years ago
    It's hard to believe that with 114K RSS subscribers that Mashable is "undiscovered". :)
  • Jack · 2 years ago
    Hey pete, great work :)

    Any mention is a good mention :)

    -Sam
  • Emon · 2 years ago
    Hah...what's their #1 undiscovered site: WordPress? They seem out of touch with the blogosphere. Your Toolbox series is simply the best, as well as everything you do.

    Grateful.
  • Kyle M. · 2 years ago
    Hi Pete, thanks for linking back to our story. I can assure you your inclusion is meant to be flattering; I'm a big fan of the site.

    Regarding some of the other comments, our audience is spread over a very broad demographic, and my goal every year with this story is for the majority of our readers to be unfamiliar with most of the sites on the list. Based on reader feedback so far, we've accomplished what we set out to do.

    It'd be close to impossible to craft a list of 100 brilliant Web sites that the Mashable community hasn't heard of, but hopefully even the most wizened web surfers among you still saw a few unfamiliar URLs on the list.

    Kyle Monson
    Associate Editor
    PC Magazine
  • mark · 2 years ago
    Yeah, I thought that was the case.
  • CountRob · 2 years ago
    Who knows, if they look hard enough they might discover a few more undiscovered sites, like Myspace or YouTube.

    Mashable is right up there with techcruch and slashdot, even better I think. Alexa rank = 1,192, hardly undiscovered.
  • Beth Chapin · 2 years ago
    Finding Mashable.com is one of the best things I've EVER discovered online.
    ~beth.
  • Mashable-Bland · 2 years ago
    Probably should stay undiscovered with the bland quality of content available at Mashable, while other bloggers who create real content are overshadowed. Pity.
  • 1TrackMine · 2 years ago
    Awesome Pete! I love this site and read it several times each day. Great, short, informative snippets of what's new.