[Refresh Monday:] The post “top 10 social news mashup sites” has been quite popular on Twitter over the weekend so I decided to update it after almost 2 years. Several sites mentioned below had been discontinued by now so I removed them adding other, new mashup sites.
Once, when I got stumbled for real I ended up on top of the Internet section of StumbleUpon.
That meant more than 2000 visitors just from SU. Besides, I noticed that some people clicked on the SU link from somewhere else: Social news mashup sites like Popurls which collect all hot topics from around the net favoring social media in most cases.
I use such mashups too as they allow you to quickly scan one day’s current news without clicking too much. So I took the mashups from the referers, the mashups I used before and did some research for more. Now I present to you: The top 9 social news mashups:
- Popurls, the classic overview, quite popular
- Alltop is like Popurls but for many topics, check out SEO on Alltop to test it
- JimmyR sports a quite advanced tabbed interface and supports different media types
- THEWEBLIST, nice design, Popurls functionality
- Original Signal, best of Web 2.0
- SEOmash, the only SEO news source you need ;-)
- Qoogle, japanese Popurls version, I love to click stuff where I have no clue what it is (similar to StumbleUpon in a way)
- fichey, incredible service that simplifies your online experience by showing every link in a linear way, can’t explain it, you have to try it yourself
- I See News is a collection of global news sources minus the usual suspects (No CNN, BBC etc.)
Well, as you might notice not all of the are social news, Alltop and SEOmash e.g. are more a collection of blogs and news but all of them offer a quick overview what’s going on in the world or a particular discipline.
This post has been first published on Aug 28, 2007. It was last updated on May 18, 2009.
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I’m a big fan of popurls. It helps people interested in getting involved in social media understand ‘what works’ pretty quickly.
Its funny, I was using my own rss parser on my server way before Id even heard the term ‘mashup’ muttered. If only to make reading the news and headlines from my favourite sites easier for myself.
http://www.seostreet.com/rss/seorss.php
I know perhaps not as fancy as the 10 above, but pretty much the same sort of thing.
Im sure Im not the only one with this sort of thing. Strange how things come around into vogue again.
I love daybox.net live version.
http://live.daybox.net/?lang=en
It`s awesome.
nice selection, a few that i have heard before.
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I can’t believe http://www.PimpMyNews.com isn’t widely known yet.
It’s the first “talking social news site” that hunts down text news and blogs you like and converts them to audio you can listen to online, or on your iPhone/iPod, anywhere.
They have over 900 blogs online and 3,000+ new stories every day - all for free.. Ridiculous!
There is a similar site - needfornews.com
It’s also news aggregator, but it gives whats hot today tags cloud + Breaking video news from
FoxNews, Cnn, Mtv and others… now i have 2 news aggregators in my bookmarks =)
I like http://www.subbmitt.com
dimitri: It’s not a mashup. It’s simply just one social news site.
Great list of Mashup sites, and I admit that I doesn’t know before now any of them.
Thanks for sharing :)
Great list! Thanks for sharing. I too did not know about many of these sites.
More similar websites can be found here: http://siteslike.info
SEOmash is one of my favorites. I have been using it for a little while and it is all around some of the best search engine optimization news.
SEOmash is a great a time saver. It’s good to know what the sources on this site are talking about, and it can be interesting to compare their coverage.
These are all good, but somehow I prefer the personal touch of my Google reader - plus it lists more than title, unlike SEOmash or Alltop.
Hmm i dont use many of them, time to take a look.
Thanks for that great list. I liked especially the Popurls. My question is: Why are they called “mashups”
Im a fan of Alltop.It just makes things easier for me, especially that I am always on the look out for information/reference in learning the basic seo and building traffic.
The list is a great help.
PopURL’s is a great resource. Some people forget about the Pop URL Quickies very convenient!
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