Creamy29 Likes Newsvine. Only as a Friend.

Creamy29
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I had a play with Newsvine yesterday, and the summary is very nice user interface (bottle green not lime yay) and they have nicely co-opted digg's user voting mechanism without getting in the way. (expect alot of main media's online operations to do this in 06) I've forgotten who owns Newsvine, but why are all the stories from Associated Press. Oh does Associated Press own this ? (just went to about us page and it doesnt say its owned by AP which makes the content choice strange from an end user point of view) Whatever (how "emo" ! ;P) - This is a classic chicken and the egg debate. Well in their "entertainment" and "hot chicks" categories as examples, all I get is AP. 12 hours later and they have the same stories as last night while all the leading blogs in this space have added at least 5-10 stories each. So I subscribe to 25 entertainment blogs - thats 100-200 new posts to peruse and digg, oops add to my newsvine. (no ability to import dugg items from outside world) If Newsvine had some Perez Hilton, Awful Truth, What Would Tyler Durden Do, I dont like you in that way - then the business model of getting people to blog about stories and get paid, would make total sense. My Summary : If someone is blogging a story (and you want them to do it from your site), they'd want the breaking source to riff/blog on, or else whats the point; Lindsay got out of hospital over 24 hours ago for example. Old News. Anyway, it shouldnt take much for Newsvine to add some more "recency orientated" sources/blogs and then they will have a great index, good UI, and great business model. The X-Factor however is very hard to clone... Now about that cell' tap.

Not 100% on this part of the model (sorry but AP content just aint that sexy, isnt that why blogging got big... digg's success for example seems related to its near infinite range of ever changing content sources - the Alaska Time anyone ?) : "Established news sites like MSNBC and CNN are able to bring you a wealth of information from around the world mostly by editing and syndicating thousands of Associated Press articles every day. Depending on what your favorite news site is, somewhere between 70 and 90% come from the A.P. Newsvine syndicates these exact same articles but takes things a step further. Why shouldn't you, as a reader, be able to comment on every single article you read? After all, you may have information the original author did not have. How about chat? If 20 people are reading an article at the same time, why shouldn't they be able to discuss it amongst themselves afterwards?"