DISQUS

Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2005/12/06/shoutwire-distributed-news-editing-a-digg-clone/

  • Paul Montgomery · 4 years ago
    FOR GREAT JUSTICE OF CROWDS
  • Pete Cashmore · 4 years ago
    Hehe. Hey Paul - have you checked out ZoomInfo? Sounds like your project TinFinger in some respects. Article here:

    http://www.marketingshift.com/2005/12/we-are-cr...

    This search is definitely having trouble telling the difference between different people with similar names - so much so that the confusion could tarnish your reputation.

    I guess this could also be linked to the current controversy over misleading Wikipedia bios.
  • Paul Montgomery · 4 years ago
    Zoominfo covers significantly different areas to Tinfinger, with almost no crossover. It is an example of a social networking site, whereas we will be an attention networking site. More on the difference here:
    http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/...

    Their major customers are corporates, whereas we're consumer-focused. Their index seems to cover the whole Web, whereas we only index from a whitelist of sites. Their users "use ZoomInfo to fill jobs, find alumni and friends, locate former colleagues, research companies, network and more", whereas I don't think any of those functions will be core to the Tinfinger experience.

    The only similarity is that we use names as keywords. Beyond that, everything is different. That's not a criticism of Zoominfo, just an observation.
  • Pete Cashmore · 4 years ago
    Paul,

    Thanks for the clarification. Looking forward to your launch!
  • Jeremiah · 4 years ago
    Haha, I like the new "coined term". I think the reason that the Digg people (which I am part of the digg community) are getting so out of shape about it is because the Shoutwire interface is as clean and stylish as digg itself.

    Reedit is mainly texted based. Though, My point may not be valid. You know, people like "shoutwire sucks big black cock" may disagree.
  • /pd · 3 years ago
    I think I called this scenario mob justice
  • Jaho · 1 year ago
    Very interesting thanks for the info