I’ve recently been the happy recipient of an invite for Newsvine, (thanks, Chris J!) a still closed beta venture, which is something I’ll simply have to start a new sentence for to describe. Here it is:
Newsvine is not just another website aggregating news and commentary from all over the web (like Digg or Slashdot), it is a huge community driven read, create and seed news resource. I created my account only yesterday, but I’m already drawn into the functionality the whole thing has to offer. At first glance it even looks like too much functionality, but, as always, once you start diving into all the stuff you can do with it, you feel like you’ve never seen anything smoother than this before. Trust me.
There’s already an in-depth review of Newsvine out there, so if you want to know in detail what the hell I’m rambling about, please go here.
What’s left for me is to tell you that everyone who signs up gets their own subdomain (mine is, you guessed it gibarian.newsvine.com). Now, that’s not only really helpful when looking for people’s contributions, but it’s also got another upside to it: Once Newsvine is out of beta, 90% of the revenue that comes from ads placed in your subdomain will go to you. That’s right. Not only does Newsvine provide an insanely cool framework around ones babbling, they also pay you for it. How’s that for revolutionary ideas?
When I signed up I got a few invites to hand out. If you’re interested in creating news, leave a comment plus name, so I can forward you one.
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If you have and extra… I would like one.
Thanks ^_^
You know I’m in. Hook me Gib
You’re welcome, Gib.
As I like the concept of Newsvine, I’m still not sure about the content. Main news are much US-centric, and for other topics I look at the other old-known places like BBC, Engadget and, hell, even /. I think one have to give it some time to mature.
You’re right, it is indeed quite US centric, but I guess with the arrival of an international reader- and authorship, that should change sooner or later. In the end I think what makes it different from other services is the ability to make news yourself, not just seed the stuff.
Hi there. If it’s not too late, I’d be interested! Well, I’m interested whether or not it’s too late, but you know what I mean.
hallo -
if you *still* have any invites floating around, i’d be interested as well… I’ve stopped reading the NYTimes ever since moving here (Brooklyn). uhoh… and by the way, the photo on the top looks just like my old street in Vienna. You guys over there are hogging all the snow and leaving none for us!
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Invites are sent out…Stella, maybe it is the street you used to live in. On the other hand, when it’s snowy, everything tends to look really quite similar here in Vienna.