Posted on 01/31/2006 9:18:09 AM PST by Xcoastie
Newsvine.com, a new type of news site created by four former Disney/ABCNEWs.com employees, is now up and running in beta.
CyberJournalist.net has been invited to join the beta and is impressed with what it's seen so far.
The site is a slick combination of some of the trendiest news-related tools online now, incorporating news aggregation, social networking, citizen journalism, blogging, user ratings and online discussions. Think of it as one-part Slashdot, one-part del.icio.us and one-part Google News, with a few other neat features thrown in.
The site is built around four general actions: reading, discussing, writing and seeding the news.
The site posts thousands of Associated Press articles that users can read.
Among the things readers can do with stories or links: vote for it, to raise it up the Newsvine (i.e. give it better promotion on the home page); participate in a live chat with other users about the story; leave comments; report inappropriate content.
Users can write their own articles, and get to keep most of the ad revenue from those pages. You'll collect 90% of the earnings from your own domain (yourname.newsvine.com). The other 10% goes to the person who referred you to start writing on Newsvine.
Users also get their own page or "column" -- basically a blog-like page that lists all of a users' posts -- with the nice URL of yourname.newsvine.com.
(Excerpt) Read more at cyberjournalist.net ...
Xcoastie still has a few invites left to the beta testing of Newsvine for anyone interested please contact me at xcoastguard@yahoo.com
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