General Aggregators
Posted in ResourcesSep 28, 08 | 04:34 pm
Mubashar Iqbal
It is no secret I’m a fan of aggregators, having built a number of them in niches from Design Galleries, Sports, Movies, Online Sales, Jobs, and Parenting.
Outside of the niches anyone looking for general links and interesting news there are a number of options…
User Powered
These sites are powered by their users, who submit and rate articles which may or may not be featured on the sites homepage.
Digg

http://www.digg.com
Digg is branching out from its technology focus to provide links to interesting articles, news, images, and videos.
Reddit

http://www.reddit.com
Although Reddit can have a bit of a political slant, there is plenty of news whatever your interests. The recent push to create your own Reddits is making sure you’re covered not matter what your interest.
Yahoo! Buzz

http://buzz.yahoo.com
Yahoo! has always been a popular web destination, but now Yahoo! is letting you decide what is newsworthy.
Newsvine

http://www.newsvine.com
Sourcing news from more established sources, Newsvine allows users to vote on stories that get promoted.
RSS Powered
These sites use RSS and other mechanical ways of collecting information from other sites to give users and easy and convenient way to read the latest news.
All Top

http://www.alltop.com
Inpsired by the hugely popular PopUrls, All Top does exactly what PopUrls does but for just about every topic and category you can imagine, and that number of topics continues to grow.
Social Media Pop

http://www.socialmediapop.com
Okay you got me, this is another one of mine. Social Media Pop aggregates links from social media sites, and presents the more popular stories for your to view.
Editor Powered
Fark

http://www.fark.com
Drew Curtis filters the web to give you latest cool news, if you want a real over load, consider subscribing to TotalFark.
Thrive Core

http://www.thrivecore.com
Brought to you from the team behind the popular PopCrunch and associated websites, Thrive Core hunts down all the latest interesting links.
Whitesoap

http://www.whitesoap.com
You’ll need a large browsers, for more news than you can handle.










inspiring commentary
October 7th, 2008 at 2:52 pmdiarmuid ryan web design
these social media sites are geat for checking out the buzz and popularity of new sites and stories, sphinn is probably my favourite
October 10th, 2008 at 7:54 amFacebook Applications
Nice and attractive gallery.