dmv wrote:

Newsvine combines the best features of a number of companies and products like Digg and Google News with great features like chat and blogging-style comments. The result is a perfect news site (note that new competitors, like spotback (mentioned here) are aiming to overthrow Newsvine already, however).

The result is a really wonderful social news experience.

Memestreams sinks lower...

Honestly, I'm not all that impressed. With the amount of money and brains behind newsvine I had expected something a bit more than Digg with pictures. Where is the technology innovation here? We've done a lot more with a lot less for a lot longer, but of course, we don't have time to work on the project, much less money to hire people, so our site isn't pretty and we don't get covered by the press.

The value of this site today is simply the people here, not the technology. The technology is simply a ruler by which you can measure what other people are doing. If one of these guys actually builds something that really works, is fun, and encompasses everything we've thought about, then great. I won't need to worry about it anymore. Otherwise we'll eventually be in a position to work on this again. In the mean time, I have a feeling a bunch of this stuff is simply going to die on the vine from overcapitalization and oversaturation... It feels bubbly.

[ Hm. One thing it doesn't seem to do is care about reputation, which is the theoretical basis that separates memestreams from all the other similiar sites that seem to be cropping up.

If anything, memestreams should care more about reputation, i think. It should be obvious at a glace who can be considered an authority here. It's something that differentiates this community from others technologically, but it's actual application is unclear. I think that's the major sticking point, honesty.

That, and the lack of a few hundred k of VC, perhaps. -k]

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