Social News Gets Personal With Customizable 'Reddits'
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Social news portal Reddit.com is rolling out a new feature allowing users to create custom "subreddits" on the site. The private beta, set to launch Thursday, will allow Reddit members to comment and vote on submitted links privately with their friends.
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With the rise of user-driven content sites, Internet users have a say in what is news. A new study examines the differences between what editors think is newsworthy and what the public does.
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A quirky new social-networking service called Mash lets you customize your friends' profiles. The Yahoo service, in public beta now, gives you the option to leave your profile open to your friends, who can choose glitter text for your page design, or add unicorns and kittens to your profile.
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AOL presents its own take on blogging the news.
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Social Networking I know I should probably lighten up a bit, but I see Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube and MySpace as clever ways to get schnooks like me to generate free content for the corporate media.
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It's kind of like Facebook's feed for people who don't do Facebook. http://friendfeed.com/davew  It seems pretty cool.
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Today Terry Heaton posted about how inside sources have tipped him off about MySpace making a social news play, fortifying them as more of an informational and 2.0 oriented portal and hopefully bringing about some maturity to MySpace. Of course, and despite what loyal Digg users may tell you, this is no &#8220;We want to be [...]
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Answer yes or no. This new social-networking site is based upon your responses to all kinds of questions
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About face User protests have forced social network site Facebook to radically re-design its controversial News Feed feature, which critics argue is a Godsend for stalkers.â¦
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USA Today is plunging into a hot new Internet technology, offering users the ability to install "widgets" on their blogs and personal Web pages that contain news updates and other information from the newspaper.
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New version allows users to categorize entries and make layout changes more easily.
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New site doses social networking with literate lists. Plus: Is
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MySpace will let its users send and receive messages, comment on pictures, post bulletins, update blogs, find friends and update their mood status on cell phones.
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People search that connects users to chat to find answers.
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Also: Dating faux-pas: Stealing other people's profiles. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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The Webâs largest social network says it can tailor ads to the personal information that its 110 million active users leave on their profile pages.
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Technorati is making an attempt to organize the growing blogosphere with their new "Topics" feature.