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NewsCred is a digital newspaper that will give you all of the world's credible news in one place. It provides news from hundreds of mainstream media sources, as well as established blogs, and lets users personalize their digital newspaper within seconds, without any fuss. The NewsCred community votes on the credibility of articles, authors and news sources, and then applies their CredRank algorithms to ensure you only get the highest quality news from the sources you love. Unlike other social news sites, NewsCred uses quality as a criterion, rather than popularity. You’ll be able to find out...  read more
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Read the news much? Unlike the nightly TV news, people actually pay attention to it and vote and rank them according to popularity. Digg became News 2.0 and dozens of clones came forth as a result. So what do you get when you mashup all those clones, plus the oringinal and then toss in a few extras to spicen it up? The answer is OurSignal, the latest social news mashup. This one’s got a nice little twist though. Each popular or recent new story is presented in box form and colored according to popularity. So stories that are hot are the reds, yellows, and oranges—warm colors. Stories that ... read more
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Nooz pretty much combines Digg and Myspace. It’s a news service curated by Myspace users. Thus it consists of news for Myspaces, by Myspacers. The news community is free to select any news, or nooz that they want to add to the page. It can be an article, blog, or Myspace profile that perks their interest. Basically, it’s like most Digg clones. Nooz users can put a Nooz ticker on their profile so that the newest items show up there. Additionally, they can opt for the box which shows static headlines. Nooz stories can of course be voted on and comments can be added. Categories are pre... read more
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Wary of corporate owned media outlets broadcasting their own brand of news? If so, turn to NewsCloud, a news aggregator operated by you, and the web community at large. NewsCloud champions a free and open press. Readers from around the world can use the site to submit news stories that interest them. Besides submitting stories, members of the site can vote and comment on each item. Mousing over the more options link gives readers the opportunity to jump to the original source and to visit the contributor’s journal. The journals comprise all comments and posts submitted by a NewsCloud m... read more
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ClipEgg is a new media aggregator. It scans the most popular social media sites looking for the hottest news, the coolest new videos, and the most fascinating pictures, then it takes all of these and slaps them together onto one convenient, easy to read site. There are three main media types to choose from: news, videos and images. You can further refine your search by selecting a topic including, elections, entertainment, technology, gaming, and lifestyle among others. Each item comes with a short excerpt and a link to the original source. There’s also a search bar for looking up keyw... read more
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Gabbr is a social news site. Bloggers can submit their own stories and posts. Readers can sort through headlines culled from CNN, the beeb, Reuters and the AP. Everyone can discuss all the news and stories making rounds through the blogosphere and trad media outlets. Gabbr users can socialize via news threads and private messaging. They get their own profile pages which pull in their own media output from popular services such as Twitter, Youtube, and Shoutbox. Other features include tags, voting, feeds, and news aggregation. Topics are categorized at the top of the page for easier bro... read more
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Nobosh is a business, finance and technology news site that uses multiple, complex algorithms to present you with the most nobosh (meaning: no nonsense) content at the time of your visit. With the abundance of information on the internet today, users need a way to find only the nobosh, and leave the bosh behind. This is what nobosh.com provides. While you won't find "nobosh" in the dictionary, the term is derived from an actual word in the English language, "bosh." Used to describe something that absurd or nonsensical, we took the term "bosh" and put "no" in front of it to describe the type of... read more
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The Berlin based HypeDiss is another take on the Digg model. Rather than burying or floating stories to the top users are encouraged to hype or diss them. On the home page is a list of all popular content. Currently, the top stories seem to be Tom Cruise and Scientology, and a tax on drugs. Above that you’ll find a tag cloud featuring categories such as graffiti, apple, architecture and music. Stories are classified as upcoming, just arrived, most hyped, most dissed and most commented. To add your own story, comment or vote, you’ll need to register. Other tools include a flash widge... read more
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No, it has nothing to do with getting back together with your ex, or anything to do with beans, for that matter. Then again, maybe their motto ‘Finds is in the word Friends’ says it all Refriends.com is actually the new reincarnation of the defunct social networking site of the same name. Now Refriends is a social news network in the vein of Digg, but with the aim of succeeding where Digg hasn’t done so well. Refriends gives you the chance to share what interests you with the people in your life. It also gives them a chance to approve or disapprove any story they read. Stories at Refrie... read more
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ScoopThis is aspiring to be the next Digg and it’s pulling out all the 2.o stops in order to achieve its goals. Besides the bouncy green orange and blue color schema, you’ll first notice the Digglike setup with user aggregated stories, voting, bookmark favicons for saving to other sites, tags, and comments . You’ve also got your user profiles indicating how many stories they’ve posted along with comments made and received. There’s also the obligatory tag cloud and of course widgets. Of course, I shouldnt fail to mention the RSS feed they’ve got set up too. This site has all th... read more
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Africa is stepping into the phenomenon that is Web 2.0 with sites like Muti. Muti is a social bookmarking site influenced by the big guns reddit and Digg. The design is similar. Users submit content—links—to articles, news stories, or whatever they find interesting. Each item can be rated and voted up or down (by clicking on the arrows). Users are granted kudu points (which on other sites are referred to as karma), by other users’ votes. There are several different ways to view items: hot which displays most voted upon stories, new, top in which you’ll find over all popular ite... read more
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NerdyNews.com is a social news site that splits the ad revenue made of a story 50/50 with the user who submitted it. When you sign up for a NerdyNews account you are asked to either associate with an existing Google AdSense account or to create a new AdSense account (which they can do for you right from the site). Once you have a Google AdSense account, you can display ads (served from Google.com) on your site. If their users click these ads, they make money. From then on, whenever you post an interesting link to the site, you get 50% of the ad revenue made over your submissions comment page. ... read more
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