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What’s Your Favorite Social News Site?

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:31:35 +0000

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Social News Sites Traffic Compared

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:30:18 +0000

Source:CenterNetworks

Pingdom has released a new report about traffic trends across a variety of social news sites. The sites included in the report are: Digg, StumbleUpon, Slashdot, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, Newsvine, Fark, Dzone and Sphinn.

What the report shows is that while so many sites focus only on Digg, there are other players that are still worth working.

Here are the findings:

Traffic-wise, Digg.com stands heads and shoulders above the other sites in this survey, but they seem to have reached a plateau. They have roughly the same number of visitors now compared to a year ago.
Mixx.com has the most aggressive growth curve. Propeller.com (previously hosted on the Netscape.com domain) is also growing fast, doubling its traffic in the last year.
Slashdot.org (the original) is losing visitors. They have roughly 25% less visitors now compared to a year ago.
The five largest based on website visitors (sorted, largest first): Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com, Slashdot.org, Propeller.com and Fark.com. (Reddit.com is in 6th place, and is about to overtake Fark.)

The report uses Google Trends for the raw numbers. It’s clear the Digg traffic needle is stuck in neutral. Also, whatever happened to Newsvine? The service were acquired by MSNBC last October and haven’t been in the news since.

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Mashable On Mixx: 30+ of Our Most Popular Stories

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:41:48 +0000

Source:Mashable!
As you probably know, Facebook rolled out its own chat application earlier this year, allowing users to send instant messages to each other when logged on. Adding chat was a no-brainer for Facebook – even if only a small subset of users log-on regularly, it adds millions of minutes in overall time that their […]

Source:Mashable!
Continuing our Mashable social voting and bookmarking journey, we’ve put together a list of our 30+ most popular posts on Mixx.
Below is an eclectic assortment of Mashable posts from helpful toolboxes to startup news and reviews and more:

Digg Pics Gets its Own Application - Announcement of a separate application from Digg Labs for Digging images […]

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Mixx Gets Serious About Community Building

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:30:04 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Digg competitor Mixx just launched an extension to its groups feature that founder Chris McGill describes as “Ning for social media”.
Users can now set up Mixx community sites on their own subdomains (see ours here). Administrators have the power to brand them visually, post editorial content, and even make some revenue off advertisements. Others can […]

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The CNN.com Effect: Mixx More Than Doubles Visitors in May To Nearly One Million

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:32:41 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Turkish startup BeFunky has closed its first round of venture funding from Golden Horn Ventures in Istanbul. The amount raised was $550,000. Previously, the company raised $250,000 in seed capital in January, 2007.
BeFunky launched at TechCrunch 40 last year. Founded by Tekin Tatar and Kemal Ozisikcilar, BeFunky offers two services: […]Source:TechCrunch
May was a good month for social-news site Mixx. At the beginning of the month, CNN.com put “Mixx it” buttons at the end of every article on its site. Consequently, the number of unique visitors to Mixx more than doubled from 380,000 in April to 904,000 in May.
To put that into […]

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The CNN.com Effect: Mixx More Than Doubles Vistors in May To Nearly One Million

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:30:02 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
May was a good month for social-news site Mixx. At the beginning of the month, CNN.com put “Mixx it” buttons at the end of every article on its site. Consequently, the number of unique visitors to Mixx more than doubled from 380,000 in April to 904,000 in May.
To put that into […]

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Mixx Wants Everyone to Play Nice, and Delete Your Stupid Comments

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:05:55 +0000

Source:Mashable!
Digg competitor Mixx has a few updates for today, most of which will make active Mixx users and recent converts happy. Before I list the new feature and major announcement, let me preclude them by noting that Mixx has been differentiating itself from Digg and other Digg clones by reeking of the human element. […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Mixx Wants Everyone to Play Nice, and Delete Your Stupid Comments”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/04/10/mixx-comments/” });

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Mixx Solves The Breaking News Problem

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:00:15 +0000

Source:Mashable!
In the early days of the service, I was underwhelmed by Mixx. It was a nice enough Digg clone, but Digg was still better in all areas, and not only because it has a huge user base.
However, lately Mixx has been really trying to bring some features that Digg lacks to the table; first, […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Mixx Solves The Breaking News Problem”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/03/25/mixx-breaking-news/” });

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Mixx’s New Feature Aims To Get Breaking News To Home Page Faster Than Digg

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:32:55 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Seattle based Redfin, a service that you use in lieu of a buyers broker or agent when buying a house.
We explained their model in detail when they launched in mid 2006. A year later the company was interviewed on 60 Minutes. And all along the way there have been lawsuits and litigation threats against the […]Source:TechCrunch
Mixx, a Digg-like site that ranks news stories based on reader voting, will launch a new “breaking news” feature later today that should get real news onto the home page very, very fast. More on that below.
Since launching just last September, Mixx has been on a tear to release new products. Groups came in December, […]

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Reddit Adds Ability to Create Your Own ?Reddits?

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:30:06 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
23andMe, the consumer genetics testing company founded by Sergey Brin’s wife Anne Wojcicki, is now available in Europe and Canada.
The service, which launched in November enables customers to search and discover whether their genes make them more predisposed to certain outcomes, such as cancer or other illnesses.
Michael signed up for a 23andme kit in […]Source:Techcrunch
According to a company blog post, social news site Reddit has launched, in closed beta, the ability for users to create their own “reddits”.
The new feature will eventually allow all users to create their own social news lists for chosen topics. These customized reddits will come in three flavors: public, restricted, and private. If […]

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