There are plenty of specialized social news communities by now, sadly most of them poorly customized Pligg applications with no users but some of them really rock and provide great niche news with a real user community behind them.
So here I present to you these really popular niche social news communities that are a must read in each of it’s niches:
- DZone – fresh links for developers – DZone is the place to be for programmers and web developers.
- Hacker News – Hacker News by Ycombinator is a great resource for startup and tech news, not necessarily only for hackers.
- Design Float – Design Float is quite new but already a good place for design inspiration and resources
Of course this list like most of my lists is purely based on my personal experience and judgment. If I forgot a niche social news community, please add it in the comments and if it rocks I’ll add it to the list.
I won’t add the plethora of Pligg clones where each story gets 2 or 3 votes though. Also poorly designed eye sores won’t make the list.
Last updated: April 14th, 2011. Removed four defunct sites.
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Thanks for the list. I love Sphinn. I will check out DailyHub.
I like DZone and Design Float. I thought Design Float would just be another tiny social site that sends no traffic, but I was wrong.
You’re welcome Fred! Great blog you have btw.
Steven, thank you for your insight. How many visitors can you expect from Design Float?
The first time I noticed Sphinn is through seo fast start dot com. It seems its getting really popular among seo blogs.
Yes, Sphinn s kind of the standard by now.
Thanks for including Design Float! I think that niche targeted community driven news websites can be extremely useful when implemented correctly. All the one’s you have listed here have proven that.
You’re welcome Andrew! Be prepared to read my SEO spam from time to time ;-)
Daily Hub is good for entrepreneur and business news as well.
Thought I’d let you know about my site. It’s called http://www.hubsess.com. It allows users to build there own niche social news hubs. Users can add stories or tag rss feeds to a Hub. Hubs can be anything.. Cities, Schools, Sports Teams, Technology, Actors, Musicians, Games.. Anything.
Some Popular Hubs:
http://www.hubsess.com/iphone – iPhone
http://www.hubsess.com/BostonRedSox – Boston Red Sox
http://www.hubsess.com/TheOffice – The Office
or even SEO:
http://www.hubsess.com/SearchEngineOptimization
Obviously we are still growing, but we believe we are going in the right direction.
SEO articles seem to do well on Design Float, a large part of our community is made of bloggers and web designers so it’s definitely information that they are looking for!
It was just a joke! I promise just to submit the design related articles.
Nice site. i just found it via stumbleupon..
Thanks for the list. I love Sphinn. Its too good
hey nice stuff
i have always be the part of communities because it helps to be updated.and our organization hired virtual employees for SEO with the reference of communities.so we hired employees from marketraise corp .
I’m sill not too keen on Sphinn to be honest and have to say that Dzone is my favourite of these
Thanks for the list. It will help a lot. I am feeling so comfortable with your blog as found quality with all of your posts. Anyway, I like Sphinn & DZone.
Here we go with my list of the top niche social news sites for bloggers. …
blogengage(Dot)com
mmosocialnetwork(Dot)com
sphinn(Dot)com
inboundmarketing(Dot)com/news
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