More like kudzu

February 20, 2006 11:00 PM

Newsvine. It's like MetaFilter, only without the filter. OK, actually it's more exactly like NewsFilter. Nifty interface, though.
posted by BitterOldPunk (14 comments total)

uh... so i have to have an account to determine if i want an account?
posted by sourbrew at 11:02 PM on February 20, 2006

Baaa-aaad mojo.
posted by RavinDave at 11:04 PM on February 20, 2006

I must be missing something here...is this a 'invite only' news club?
posted by alteredcarbon at 11:12 PM on February 20, 2006

Maybe this link will work better.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:14 PM on February 20, 2006

Or maybe you get the same signin page.
posted by RavinDave at 11:16 PM on February 20, 2006

yea, bummer it got posted while invite only. not too good of a FPP because of it unfortunately. however, i really think it's pretty amazing. i've only been using it since my invite 2 days ago but i'm very impressed.

all the news from the associated press + user submitted news links. but the bonus is that commenting is allowed for each story to spur discussion. So it's a cool news community (ie:newsfilter) Also, you can write your own articles and after beta earn income from your own subdomain's (name.newsvine.com) ad revenue.

pretty solid so far I think. we'll see how it continues.
posted by freudianslipper at 11:20 PM on February 20, 2006

MeTa.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

This site is worth checking out but as it is still in beta it is not publicly accessible.

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:26 PM on February 20, 2006

agree. too itchy of a trigger finger. lets wait till its out of beta, or at least public.
posted by freudianslipper at 11:27 PM on February 20, 2006

not too good of a FPP

That's putting it rather mildly.

This site is worth checking out

If only...
posted by PeterMcDermott at 11:28 PM on February 20, 2006

See also : reddit, magnolia, blogmarks, digglicious (which is digg+delicious, of course) and even the new b3ta links board (amongst others that slipped my mind already). These kinds of sites are exploding all over the map lately.

Metafilter still gets my vote, though.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:28 PM on February 20, 2006

odinsdream. the beta is to work out the kinks. they are still in development. albeit they have an extremely strong product already. normally i would agree with you, but, i agree with the beta in this case. i do think that this will be a pretty popular service so it was a good idea to release slowly at first. i don't think they'll be kicking around the bush.

it was just friends now its people who signed up for an invite.
posted by freudianslipper at 11:30 PM on February 20, 2006

See also : reddit, magnolia, blogmarks, digglicious (which is digg+delicious, of course) and even the new b3ta links board

Oh, great. Thanks, now I have two or three more link/news aggregators to obsessively refresh while looking for new stuff.

Some people complain about losing paltry afternoons to this, that or some other site or another, but entire lives are at stake here, man!
posted by loquacious at 12:03 AM on February 21, 2006

so when this site goes alpha, would a post about it then be a double?

sky opens... evil demon hops out....
posted by phaedon at 1:28 AM on February 21, 2006

You won't be able to search for it so you'd have to remember where it was.
posted by Mitheral at 1:30 AM on February 21, 2006