Politically Charged Social Bookmarking
November 15th 2006 21:33
When Digg.com hit the big time traffic numbers I think it took a lot of the Internet community by surprise. I remember watching forums like Digitalpoint get hit with tens of thousands of visits over a matter of hours from one simple link that was voted to the home page. The success of the new community based website model has been tremendous in the recent past and I predict it will continue to grow.
When I watched the social networking phenomenon explode I couldn't help but to jump right in and be a part of the action. Since then it's been a whirlwind of learning experience and a journey of high speed action unlike anything I've ever experienced online.
Now we're starting to see these pioneer communities spawn an age of "sub-communities", if you will, that are more topic specific. The latest of these new social networking hot spots is a political take called "Political Dip".
From theblog press release:
"Political Dip is a community driven political news and commentary site that relies on users to decide what stories make the front page and what stories simply were not good enough. The system uses a very simple vote counting method and any story that receives enough votes makes it to the front page, along with a free ride in our RSS feeds and other syndication outlets."
If it stays non-partisan I think it has a pretty good shot. I've seen the sitet mentioned in several blog posts and it's only a couple days old. Politically charged social bookmarking.
Nothing new to the community in general of course, but this says to me that social networking is really only getting started. We've seen what the big dogs can do, now let's sit back and see where the rest of the online world will take it.
It's gonna be a fun ride!
When I watched the social networking phenomenon explode I couldn't help but to jump right in and be a part of the action. Since then it's been a whirlwind of learning experience and a journey of high speed action unlike anything I've ever experienced online.
Now we're starting to see these pioneer communities spawn an age of "sub-communities", if you will, that are more topic specific. The latest of these new social networking hot spots is a political take called "Political Dip".
From theblog press release:
"Political Dip is a community driven political news and commentary site that relies on users to decide what stories make the front page and what stories simply were not good enough. The system uses a very simple vote counting method and any story that receives enough votes makes it to the front page, along with a free ride in our RSS feeds and other syndication outlets."
If it stays non-partisan I think it has a pretty good shot. I've seen the sitet mentioned in several blog posts and it's only a couple days old. Politically charged social bookmarking.
Nothing new to the community in general of course, but this says to me that social networking is really only getting started. We've seen what the big dogs can do, now let's sit back and see where the rest of the online world will take it.
It's gonna be a fun ride!
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