I have been in the Newsvine beta for a few months now, and thought I would write up a quick review for those that haven’t seen/used it yet. As a news site, it is a great resource. It has become my defacto online news source, easily beating out CNN and other big news sites. It pulls news from the APWire, but also has a “vine” that users can seed their own news to and (as of a few days ago) seed that news to the region they are from. I have already seeded three articles to the Birmingham region.
In addition to news, you can also seed links to Newsvine, similar to Digg. You can comment on the link itself, and others can comment as well as vote for the link. The links with the higher votes in each section get more face-time on the main page. They also select Featured Writers, however I am not sure if this is just a totally random thing right now or if there is a science to it. You can also “watch” other people’s Newsvine pages (as well as regional pages) to see when they write up a post or seed a link.
With 30,000+ people in the beta so far, the site seems to be handling the load well. I have not experienced any slowdown, although there has been a smattering of comments from some users to that effect.
If anyone is not using Newsvine and would like to try it out, leave a comment and I will send invites to the first 5 people. You have to put a valid e-mail address in the comment form (the e-mail field) for me to be able to send you the invite.
Hi Jeremy,
I would love to try this out. Can you send me an invitation ?
thanks,
Chris
Is that Birmingham UK?
Jedeye – Thats Birmingham, Alabala, USA.
Two invites down, three to go.
Thanks for the invite – if you still have it!
hey i was wondering if I could also get an invite thnx….Loved the review
I’ve been in the newsvine beta only for about 3 weeks, and so far I LOVE it. It’s a great way to get news from all over the place, and insanity easy to build a custom watch list to bring the news you want right to you instead of having to sift through a pile of stuff you don’t reall care about to get to the things that really interest you. Once it’s ad supported I’m curious to see how it holds up. Their business model is pretty interesting.
I’d love an invite if you still have some left.
Invites are gone.
Hey Chris – ever thought of making a WebDeveloper Toolbar for Camino?
D’oh! 9 is greater than 5, right?
oh, too slow :-( Anyone else is able to send me an invite, please? Thanx
… my e-mail address is vaaclav (at) gmail
i’ve got 5 invites to give away as well, so if ya want one, drop me an email, first five get invited, after that you get sarcastic remarks about being too slow. :P
Can anyone send me an invite. The company is located in my city and I would love to check it out waltersm@gmail.com
Ill be back very soon to see any update!!!
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Does anyone know who designed Newsvine?
Thanks