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This morning, Ask.com announced a major upgrade to the the search functionality within Bloglines. Bloglines has been the largest and most popular pure web-based RSS reader since its inception, and these improvements are a welcome addition to an already great product.
We're especially psyched, however, about the addition of direct Newsvine Seeding functionality to the search results. If you find something of interest during your search, you can click a dropdown widget underneath the search result and post it to Newsvine, del.icio.us or Digg. We know you'll choose wisely. :)
As we begin to see more and more sites adding direct Seeding links, we remind ourselves how important it is to document, formalize, and further open our API as we continue to move forward.
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I'm seeing more and more of these bookmarking tools becoming available on various sites... and I'm very pleased to see Newsvine usually on the short list, just in case you run across something really juicy.
I have to wonder whether this will be a good or bad thing in the long term.
While it's great for those of us currently contributing to the Vine, I fear it may lead to an sudden change in the sigal to noise ratio when the trolls from digg discover the service.
Since I discovered newsvine, I have always come here for actual discussion of stuff. Some of the discussions that take place here are getting better than even Slashdot, and Slashdot has some very smart people on it. Digg seems like a bunch of immature people always making one line posts of opinions not based on any facts. Newsvine seems like a much more informative and interesting place for discussion.
Newsvine discussions don't come close to the quality you get at Slashdot. But it's also a lot more diverse here in terms of the topics. So that might explain why. Newsvine is also very new in comparison. All in due time hopefully.
But you are correct in saying Digg comments are almost worthless to read. It's like children arguing over a ball on the playground. I have digg in my feed reader and only click the links that I'm interested in and only then do I visit digg's page, only to click the link to the actual site. Reading the comments are just a waste of time.
I belive the real people of newsvine will keep that from at least taking place on the majority of newsvine. Remember if you see 'crap' either don't comment on it or flag it as garbage so we can keep it that way without having to keep the whole site a secret.
RE: Slashdot, trolling is the last thing I'd like to see occur in Newsvine. Mods down and qualifiers for less-than-conversational comments (flamebait, offtopic, troll, etc.) have separated the seed from the chaff fairly effectively over there.
I'm not sure whether the Newsvine team's waiting for a critical mass of regulars to expand on comment features, but it'd be a welcome sight to eventually see a way to retain proverbial carrots for well-reasoned posts and sticks for the inane ones.
Hey, who you calling a troll? XD
More ppl are trolling dig than watching the world cup :)
digg trolls! hehe!
This is great news 'Vine. Keep up the great work.
Now you need to push portal sites like Pageflakes, Netvibes, Google, et al to include custom Newsvine widgets for display on their start pages. I would think that would really drive new traffic for Newsvine.
Yeah, Netvibes already has Newsvine in there but I'm not sure about the other ones. With Google, we're investigating their Google Co-op service, so we'll see what happens with that.
Yes, Netvibes does. Pageflakes does not (I use it as a homepage) and neither does Google. Since I'm currently using Pageflakes, I'd certainly like to see the Vine wrap itself around that.
Speaking of Widgets -- any interest from the Newsvine group in creating a Yahoo widget?
Yeah, a Yahoo widget as well as a Dashboard one would be a welcome addition. We already created a Typepad Widget and it's all JS-based, so perhaps that could be a baseline for such a thing.
That reminds me, I should probably announce the Typepad widget. :)
I've got a bit of spare time on my hands and I've been meaning to learn the Yahoo widget system -- want a little volunteer code assistance?
Yes we need one for dash :)
Konfabulator/Yahoo! Widget Engine is a good idea... Maybe I can get some time to whip one together.
I was thinking a widget that implemented watchlists and maybe conversation tracking would be cool. I have some ideas as to what it should look like, but I'd need help from the graphics team at Newsvine to get it looking right
Those both sound like good ideas.
Giddyup.
When Newsvine was in diapers a lot of people came up with good ideas for a widget that has since has fallen off of the radar. With all the new features since then I am sure there are even more possibilities. Anyone have anything started yet?
I made a simple newsvine widget for Google homepages, but it doesn't offer anything beyond what a simple RSS feed can do (except easier editing). I'm hoping Newsvine will open an API for conversation tracker stuff so it can be made more useful.
How about a Wordpress plug-in?
This could be interesting, but it would violate the CoC, by seeding your own links.
This is very excellent news. As someone who uses both Bloglines and Newsvine frequently, this feature will improve my daily news reading/browsing/commenting experience greatly.
Wow. Now we can get even more polls on Bush, whining about the 2004 election, pandering for aid to third world cesspools, and criticisms about the way of life in America...
The CMS that I'm converting some of my sites to also has a "social bookmarking" plugin you can use which has "seed to newsvine" on it. I was quite happy to see that and will use it when I launch the sites.
Citizen journalism is no different than most the media. Thats why I post mostly conservite political posts. Lets Try and balance the vine a bit. It is an uphill battle.
roger3000
I don't know what a conservite is. Is that a troglodite with an opinion?
These direct links are great. I suppose the benefits are mutual for both the story sites as well as Newsvine (and others). Seed Magazine's site has had them for Newsvine since the day you guys went out of Beta, and I use them often myself.
Will the API ever become public? And if so, where.