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HowFlow is the place for finding tips and tricks for all sorts of Ruby on Rails/Ubuntu/Debian/programming geekery. If you’re a little rusty on your linux skills, HowFlow maybe useful to you. It’s a Berlin based site that was created with the Digg community voting and popularity style in mind. Users can submit their own tips, tricks, websites, and howtos or simply check out the front page to see what’s popular. The ranking systems allows the most popular articles to make front page, while the rest get upcoming page status. You can search for topics through the tag cloud, categories or search bar and feel free to join and paste your own comments. The site is currently in beta, so it’s a bit sparse on the content side, but looks promising once there’s more.
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“HowFlow is a community-based tricks and howtos popularity website. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.”
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HowFlow takes the popular Digg model and uses it for a howto website. This is a good concept. Ranking works. And with content like howtos, this may be the best way to find quality content.
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Will HowFlow offer more content besides tech/programming howtos? Is there a place for Digg style tips and tricks, especially with the advent of video websites like Videojug?
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written by Andreas Roedl 4 Months 14 Days ago | |
| HowFlow launched just about four weeks ago and is currently in private beta. We plan to go public in the next week, but if you're interested, you can get an invitation by sending an email to flow 'at' howflow.com . The current version has about 10 per cent of the planned features. As you can see, it works a bit like digg, but it isn't just another digg clone, because our users can submit their own content directly on our site.We're constantly working on features that offer a _real_ benefit for our users. For example the next big feature will be our job board. In combination of what we know about our users - their knowledge level, areas of interest and even their location - we can match job opportunities very precisely to our registered users. The matching algorithm takes the rating of a user in a specific field (like Linux, PHP, databases, Ruby on Rails, ...) in account.HowFlow already has a sophisticated matching algorithm to find solutions for pasted error messages. It's kind of a search engine for IT professionals, looking for a solution. | ||
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written by makjaveli 4 Months 14 Days ago | |
| Does the trick for me. IMHO, some of the articles are way more interessting then the post on Digg. | ||
