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Re: Mashable is a “Top Undiscovered Site”

1TrackMine — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:19:49 -0000

Awesome Pete! I love this site and read it several times each day. Great, short, informative snippets of what's new.

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Mashable-Bland — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:11:25 -0000

Probably should stay undiscovered with the bland quality of content available at Mashable, while other bloggers who create real content are overshadowed. Pity.

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Pete — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:33:08 -0000

Fixed, thanks.

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Beth Chapin — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:17:49 -0000

Finding Mashable.com is one of the best things I've EVER discovered online.
~beth.

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CountRob — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:03:27 -0000

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.

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mark — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:58:04 -0000

Yeah, I thought that was the case.

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Kyle M. — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:52:40 -0000

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

Re: Mashable is a “Top Undiscovered Site”

Emon — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:31:35 -0000

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.

Re: Mashable is a “Top Undiscovered Site”

Jack — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:19:05 -0000

Hey pete, great work :)

Any mention is a good mention :)

-Sam

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Mark Evans — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:58:20 -0000

It's hard to believe that with 114K RSS subscribers that Mashable is "undiscovered". :)

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trade games GURU — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:14:41 -0000

how did we not make this list??? :(

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Jimmy Huen — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:48:43 -0000

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.

Re: Mashable is a “Top Undiscovered Site”

msthilaire — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:25:15 -0000

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?

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bob cobb — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:55:07 -0000

114k rss readers and its undiscovered hahahah

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Ruan Caiman — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:25:30 -0000

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.

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brandon — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:17:36 -0000

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.

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Chris — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:35:09 -0000

Mashable should be in Top 100 Popular sites not in Undiscovered sites.

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micropat — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:05:18 -0000

http://www.pcmag.com/slides...

Re: Mashable is a “Top Undiscovered Site”

Pete — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:31:14 -0000

You can access them direct, but it automatically runs the slideshow regardless. Fairly annoying.

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brian — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:22:54 -0000

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?