Mobibu.com - User Generated Mobile News Site

Mobibu is a user generated news site for mobile device users. Mobibu has all of the news on any type of mobile device you may be interested in and as a user on the site you have control over which posts will be most popular and which posts will be buried. If you are not a user on the site you can browse around and see the mobile news that is posted. There are many categories to browse through posts such as: Apple Blackberry, Dopod, Nokia, Motorola, Palm, Philips, Samsung, and many others. You can also browse through the tags and the top users. The top users have the best karma rate out of ten. Karma is calculated by a combination of being active and receiving good feedback on the posts. If you want to get more involved and post news as well as see your ranking you should register. Once you have registered you can submit news and see how popular it is. The user community as a whole can bury bad content and allow good content to rise to the top. You can learn more about your mobile device and the others available by visiting Mobibu.com.

"Mobibu is a user-powered news portal built specially for the mobile phone industry. Mobibu is designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others. On this social content voting site, all news is submitted by its users. Most members are generally mobile phone bloggers. Any members can submit mobile phone related content to Mobibu.com, and this will enable the content to be viewed by all. The content will be promoted or buried depending on how much it is liked by the community. The more votes the submission gets, the more popular it is. With enough votes, the piece of news will be showcased on the main page of Mobibu.com."

Mobibu.com has a colorful interface, the blue design works well. The site is easy to navigate and does a clear job at explaining what the site does. It is great that users are provided with an assortment of ways to navigate the site from tags to categories. The ranking system is also a great way to see which user’s posts you should take a look at.

There are many sites that are dedicated to covering mobile news and technology. How will Mobibu.com deal with competition posed by other sites? Mobibu.com could feature more media such as a photo gallery of all of the products or even videos.