A social news network that taps into collective wisdom
Share and read news that is relavant to you. Social|Median is a new site that helps you navigate the information avalanche.
Search engines and news aggregators use keyword filtering to add ever increasing numbers of news items to your inbox. What is needed is a human editor that selects quality stories. Traditionally, newspapers and broadcast services did this, but aimed at mass adiences without differentiating individual interests. But everybody is not the same.
Social median begins in the same way, although adding much more sophisticated filtering capabilities to search selected newsfeeds - from the New York Times to Treehuggers.com. These are feeds set up by users who specify the relavant newsfeed and add topic words to search for. Visting or subscribing to such a feed benefits from the judgement of others and produce focused article feeds much better qualified than Google News, for instance.
Where SocialMedian really comes into its own, is by allowing readers to clip stories, with the option to add a comment, and post these on their personal news feed at SocialMedian. Other users come and visit and can opt to follow these 'newsmakers' on their own home page or via email. This adds a layer of human filtering which greatly enhances the quality of stories you get to see. And significantly reduces the amount of headlines one has to scan to find the good stories.
Another feature that promises to break the boundaries of existing news aggregation technologies is the ability to clip stories from anywhere on the internet a little the way StumbleUpon collects interesting websites. In this way, relavant pages are added to a users list of clipped articles at SocialMedian and automatically shared with their 'Followers'.
Visit my page at SocialMedian. To follow collected articles, sign up and 'follow' this feed. You can opt to receive email summaries.
To watch a video where the founders of SM explain their ideas, click here.
This review was also published online at Shvoong.
posted by Rendt @ 21.9.08
1 Comments:
Sicial networks might be good indeed? however you should not forget about other important thing. The excess of the diversed information noise from many various sources overwhelm a Chav - as far as I know the slang word for a meddle-class common people. So that chav, beeing owerhelmed, gets lost and dubbed by so much choice oppotunities and fells down into medieval superstitions and... obscurantism.
Any religion the wider it's interpretation is the better, meets those medeival needs the better. That kind of superstitions makes any negotiations impossible.
So the social networks are nice things, but somewhat dangerous;-))
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