Comments on: 7 Reasons Why Niche Social Media Outlets are Better Than Digg

By: Rohan

Rohan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:55:00 +0000

I totally agree with you. In fact id like to recommend a site dotnetshoutout.com which is similar to dotnetkicks as the name suggests for .net programmers.

By: GrahamH

GrahamH — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:43:06 +0000

Good post, we hope you are right as we are putting a great deal of effort in developing a family of niche social bookmark sites. The first up are http://www.keecricket.com , for the cricket fan and http://www.keemedia.net for the Pr professional. Many more to follow

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By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:22:51 +0000

Thank you for joining up and giving me some feedback.

As far as the content goes, you can submit anything you like. The members that are there have been submitting quite a bit of mainstream news, but we specifically designed the site to use tags instead of categories so our members can submit anything they are interested in, and keep it easy to find. Doing a quick tag search in the search bar for DIY returns these for example http://www.tagsum.com/news/search?q=diy&t=tags . We have a feature coming soon where you will be able to subscribe to tags that interest you. So for example if you are only interested in football, cars, and diy projects, you will be able to subscribe to those and have that info delivered straight to you.

By: Aaronontheweb

Aaronontheweb — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:48:19 +0000

Hey Brian,

I sent you an email too but I figured I’d reply to you here also. I went ahead and signed up and I’m going to submit a couple of things. I have a quick question though, is Tagsum ONLY for submitting news items exclusively? What about just popular items that regular users might be interested in, like how-to and do-it-yourself articles? It seems like Tagsum is directed more towards news.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:11:38 +0000

We’re actually developing a digg alternative as we speak. It’s been live for just over a month now and has actually had over 300,000 unique visitors thus far. The site is http://www.tagsum.com

We’re focused on making social media more social. Digg added it’s social networking features, but really they just made it easier to game the system (seriously, just by adding hundreds of friends and shout spamming I got over 20 articles on the front page of digg in a one week period).

Anyhow, we don’t want to do what digg has done. Everything is tag based so you can create the narrow niches that truely fit your submissions. I nthe control panel we have friend feeds so you can keep an eye on what your circle of friends is doing on the site. We have a full featured private messaging system, and real profiles complete with a drag and drop photo gallery system. Keep an eye on our site over the coming months as we continue development (oh, and we actually have a picture section unlike digg )

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By: Guy

Guy — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:38:04 +0000

All good comments, in fact I gave up on Digg for health and medical news because it was all so broad and not broken into categories and started another site with some friends (meddlinks.com). I'm guessing we'll start seeing a rise in niche social networking sites, but nothing like what Digg is.

By: jim welch

jim welch — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:17:47 +0000

Nice write up.

I gave up on Digg/Programming a while ago. At first it was okay, but something happened in the last year or so and all programmers must have just went over to reddit, DZone, DNK, etc.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:06:24 +0000

Great article. This one should be on your list too. http://www.spinsnap.com

It’s similar to Stumbleupon, but depends less on power users and is more of a level playing field.

By: Aaronontheweb

Aaronontheweb — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:31:28 +0000

@Stacy,

That is an excellent point.

@Anthony,

Again, great point; the only problem is the chicken and the egg with social networks – you’ve got to have some momentum to get the thing rolling. It’s not impossible but it may be time-consuming.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:37:34 +0000

Very good points. I’d like to add that if a social network for your niche doesn’t exist yet then why not start your own with Ning?
http://www.ning.com/

Even if it doesn’t become the next Digg (or even the next Netscape, I mean Propeller) it’s worth it for some links.

By: Stacy Nelson

Stacy Nelson — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:11:41 +0000

I think you’re missing the point of the power of Digg though. It’s not about getting to the front page of Digg, it’s about being able to leverage it’s power for higher ranking in Google. See Google likes Digg and will list Diggs up fairly high in the niche listings. So if you are blogging about ‘underwater rats’ and your blog is ranking 500 (are there that many searches for this?) and you get one of your articles dugg, that article might come in at the #13 listing on a Google search, therefore indirectly driving readers to your blog. Social Posting is not about the network you’re posting on as much as how well Google likes that network.

By: Aaronontheweb

Aaronontheweb — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:37:00 +0000

Thanks for the link Bluedog! I went ahead and threw my two cents on TechCrunch.

By: Bluedog

Bluedog — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:52:47 +0000

Techcrunch posted a site that looks more user-friendly then Digg, and Arrington seems intrigued by it.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/13/mixx-to-take-a-new-look-at-social-news/#comments
Within minutes of posting, the first “diggnation” hostility came out, LOL. Drives home point #1 completely!

http://www.mixx.com is the URL