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While Digg gets worse each day and looses traffic (it’s at an all time low by now according to Alexa) specialized social news communities gain momentum. There are plenty of them by now, sadly most of them poorly customized Pligg applications but some of them really rock and provide great niche news.
So here I present to you 7 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 aka Ycombinator is a great resource for tech news, not necessarily only for hackers.
- Sphinn - Sphinn is a wonderful search engine marketing and optimization news community, meet social media power users who were offended everywhere else for doing SEO
- Hugg 2.0 - Hugg is the “green Digg” for stories related to ecology, environment and sustainability, great place
- SWiK - SWik is a very helpful news community about open source software
- Design Float - Design Float is quite new but already a good place for design inspiration and resources
- DailyHub - DailyHub does not have much traffic yet but it has great marketing news you don’t want o miss
Of course this list like most of my lists is purely based on my personal experience and judgement. 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.
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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 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