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Re: ShoutWire – Distributed News Editing (A Digg Clone?)

Jaho — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:33:22 -0000

Very interesting thanks for the info

Re: ShoutWire – Distributed News Editing (A Digg Clone?)

/pd — Mon, 08 May 2006 12:32:06 -0000

I think I called this scenario mob justice

Re: ShoutWire – Distributed News Editing (A Digg Clone?)

Jeremiah — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:09:20 -0000

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.

Re: ShoutWire – Distributed News Editing (A Digg Clone?)

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:09:19 -0000

Paul,

Thanks for the clarification. Looking forward to your launch!

Re: ShoutWire – Distributed News Editing (A Digg Clone?)

Paul Montgomery — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:05:54 -0000

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/tho...

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.

Re: ShoutWire – Distributed News Editing (A Digg Clone?)

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:01:21 -0000

Hehe. Hey Paul - have you checked out ZoomInfo? Sounds like your project TinFinger in some respects. Article here:

http://www.marketingshift.c...

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.

Re: ShoutWire – Distributed News Editing (A Digg Clone?)

Paul Montgomery — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:57:04 -0000

FOR GREAT JUSTICE OF CROWDS