DesignFloat.com - Digg For Designers

Design Float, taking its cue from Digg, has come up with a community-run news outfit whose sole focus is design. Design related stories are collected, voted on and ranked. The stories receiving the most votes get top spots on the homepage while those that aren’t so hot get shipped to the bottom. Sites can be submitted by any user, once registered. All content is neatly categorized so you’ll be able to sort out typography from CSS. Entries can also be arranged according to date and popularity. For easier submission, DesignFloat has a series of widgets as well as a bookmarklet for FireFox, IE, and Opera. The site’s also got a RSS feed.

“Design Float is a Digg style, community driven news aggregator dedicated to the design industry. Design Float aims to collect and organize design-related content from accross the web while lettting the community float the best articles to the top pages of their categories and sink the most irreleveant one's to the bottom. The ultimate goal of Design Float is to, hopefully, categorize the huge amount of design-related content available on the web into neat and easy to navigate pages of articles in order of importance/relevance as decided by the community. Basically, it's just a niche version of the highly popular Digg.com.”

This niche site provides designers with relevant and interesting news. Stories are easy to find and neatly organized. Design Float could very well become a main stay resource for designers.

Will users participate, actively voting for content? Is a strictly design oriented Digg clone needed?