Posts Tagged with ‘slashdot’

Tired of the news you are finding on Digg and Slashdot? Convinced that you are smarter than the combined user base of those two and Fark? Numbrosia thinks they have the solution: merit-based news submissions.
With Numbrosia, gone are the “everyone votes” models of Digg and Fark, as well as the editorial control of Slashdot. Instead, your submission gets floated or sunk based on merit. Users earn merit points based on their daily score earned completing the logic puzzles on the [...]

CNN bought into the citizen journalism movement 18 months ago with iReport, but most user-created submissions have never made it to the site. Later this week, however, CNN will launch iReport.com, a site that will contain solely user-created content, from videos to photos to stories.
Unlike the iReport feature, however, the content on iReport.com will have no one vetting the content. Instead, it will be a wide-open format, and they've been marketing the new site to its frequent submitters. In [...]

Leave it to Google to post their response to Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo on Super Bowl Sunday; were they hoping that the mainstream press would let it go by or were they hoping to detract from even that holiest of American holidays?
Posted today at 11:45 Google Time by David Drummond, Google Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, the entry paints Google as the little guy and Microsoft as the big baddy trying to take over [...]

It seems like every other week there's a new headline: Digg Killer, Google Killer, Facebook Killer. This time, however, it's an old dog learning a new trick, with Slashdot adding a sideshow to throw its hat into the ring with Digg, Fark, and the rest with their launch of Idle, a non-tech version of the popular site aimed at the people who don't want to endlessly discuss the idiosyncrasies of the tech industry.
I never thought I'd see the day when [...]

Slashdot featured a little story over the Christmas holiday about my favorite on-again, off-again love affairs: Google. I was going to comment on it yesterday but thought maybe the stress of the holiday season might be getting to me, and since I'd just raked Wikimedia over the coals, I thought I'd bask in my Christmas cheer and give Mountain View the day off. Maybe they too would eat a cookie, have a glass of wine, and emerge refreshed, ready [...]

Social bookmarking has only come to be utilized to a large degree in recent years. The first service to really popularize the practice is often thought to be Del.icio.us. Regardless of which came first, who copied whom, and what really constitutes a social bookmarking service, it?s occasionally a topic of interest what site stands where on the list of the largest. For those who wish to know, eBizMBA has laid out a tally of the top 20.
It probably comes [...]