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By: Jennifer Tuskan
After eight weeks of testing Newsvine is finally live.
Newsvine was created by Mike Davidson. He is the CEO of Newsvine in Seattle, Washington. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle from 1993-1997 and took Business Administration-Concentrations in Marketing and Advertising. Then he attended Oxford University in England where he took Advertising Theory and Management and graduated in 1996. In June 2005, he left his job of five years as Manager of Media Product Development for The Walt Disney Internet Group to begin his own company.
Newsvine is promised to be different, efficient way to read, write and discuss news. One of Newsvine advantages is news makes its way into Newsvine faster than any other site on the web. There is also a recent addition of the Conversation Tracker. This makes you automatically notified from the site itself when someone responds to an item in your column or a comment you've left somewhere else around the site. Newsvine covers over 500 regions around the world, including Antarctica.
There are features of spellchecking, autosave, and inline previewing to the authoring tools while making them easier at the same time also included in Newsvine. All users are diectly accountable for what they submit on Newsvine. People can post their own stories on the site and let others seed the stories. Newsvine gets its live news from the Associated Press.
Every Newsvine member has his or her own column. Any news they write or feed will be on their column. You can also talk to somebody about the same story. Newsvine is run by five people. There is also something called carrot to users. Every contributor gets a share of the ad revenue generated on their pages. The more popular, the more money you're likely to make.
You can also organize published work by tag names. This makes it easier for someone to find whatever they are looking for a lot quicker. Placement of stories is determined by a multitude of factors including freshness, popularity, and reputation.
Some of the users comments were as follows: Harold: Can't wait to have the 'newsvine experience." Sounds like an incredible service. Scott Smith: Looks good! Many people have said that this website is going to change the way we read and look at news.
People are starting to compare Newsvine to Digg. Digg is somewhat similar to Newsvine. It is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. Digg users submit stories for review much similar to Newsvine.
In the long run Newsvine will be a good tool for people to express their opinions on news and to look up news stories efficiently.
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What's this?
Who's leading the conversation?
This visualization below allows you to see the impact that each user
has on the current conversation.
The top row contains the group of users who have had the most impact, the 2nd
row the group of users who have had the 2nd most impact (et cetera).
Users with similar impact are grouped together, and the average score of the group
is shown to the left of the group. The author of the article is also shown on the
left, in their corresponding group.
Each user's score is based on the number of comments the user has made plus the
number of votes their comments have received. The scores are calculated relative
one another, so while their absolute value is not particularly important, their
relative difference does indicate a larger difference in impact on the conversation.
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{"commentId":48653,"authorDomain":"vinay"}
Paragraphs! I need paragraphs.
Otherwise, decent article.
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#1 - Sat Mar 4, 2006 6:19 AM EST{"canLink":false,"threadId":"22252","isPrivate":false}
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