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Increased Activity Streams Boost Social Median's Chances
Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader
Sep 08, 2008


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By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed)

The one problem I had been having with SocialMedian has been the need to manually "clip" stories that I find interesting on the internet. Many social news sites, i.e. Digg, Mixx, etc., use this model with great results. SocialMedian has been trying to focus on getting relevant information in front of their users, while maintaining the voting and commenting mainstays of social news. By allowing users to create news networks, and making the follower/submitter model a little more influential, they tried to create automated content filters. With the early addition of user-configurable "volume for noise levels", they also tried to avoid the spamming of stories to several networks.

These were fantastic additions, but as anyone who has used social news sites, adding stories manually to a site is a lot of work. In this past week, SocialMedian dropped more barriers to using their service. They had a big week implementing blog and Google Reader automated integration into a user's clipped stories. This makes the service s ...Read the full article

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Jasongoldberg,
Sep 08, 2008
Wow, fantastic post. Thanks Rob! Now we have to live up to it :) More and better on the way...
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Friarminor,
Sep 08, 2008
It has been an interesting social median experience so far.
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