socialmedian: Splurb Shows Stories That Are Hot on Multiple Social News Sites

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Splurb Shows Stories That Are Hot on Multiple Social News Sites

Source: mashable

Nov 03, 2009

Summary

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Splurb

Quick Pitch: Splurb is a cross-referenced list of the social web’s most popular links. To get listed, a link must be popular on at least two social websites.

Genius Idea: Community news aggregators like Digg, Reddit, and Tweetmeme are a great way to find interesting news links and stories. The only problem is that it can be difficult to keep track of all the news from all the different aggregators. This is Splurb’s mission: to simplify the social aggregators by only listing stories that have been deemed popular by at least two social sites.

Splurb aggregates stories that have become popular on sites like Digg, Tweetmeem, Fark, Reddit, Propeller, Yahoo! Buzz, and Mixx. Links can be viewed by category and are sorted by popularity over time. The size of a stories text indicates how many sources linked to it.

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