You can’t help but notice all the discussions going on about Mixx these days, from my favourite bloggers like Tamar and Tad, to top news sources like TechCrunch - it’s like the time sphinn was launched with all these updates in my RSS reader about the same site.
If you’ve missed out on all the news; Mixx is a bit like Digg, where users submit stories and other users vote on them, the stories that get a lot of votes and are deemed interesting appear on the ‘popular page’. Mixx is unique in that it offers some great story, picture and video sections and I especially like the process for submitting pictures.
So, like the title says I love Mixx, here’s a few reasons why:
- I can see stories from topics that interest me straight away (click on the image above)
- Voting for stories and leaving comments are fast, something that digg seems to be getting worse with
- A lot of my friends are on there (Tad, Tamar, Muhammad, MrBabyMan, Zaibatsu, Greg etc) and that’s one of the reasons I love StumbleUpon so it’s good to see others have moved over as well
- It’s new, theres no bitchyness in the comments and theres a lot of good, unique and most of all diverse content that is making the homepage of the site
Mixx is taking a lot of my time away from Digg, so why don’t I just leave the giant (Digg) alone?
Well…I can’t, and there’s a few reasons for that as well:
- I like the homepage, although some of the stories might be clutted with tech dicussions or ron paul articles, I always find a lot of interesting content that I’m tempted to share with colleagues
- It still drives the most traffic, although 95% of my time on the site is for personal reasons, when it comes to helping out clients or others, having a successful submission on Digg can drive a lot of traffic and get the story in front of people who can link
- It’s Digg - although that might seem pretty silly, Mixx is going to be compared to Digg for a very long time until / if it becomes a bigger website. Digg is famous for what it is and it’s still first on my mind when I want to find interesting news from around the web
- I love the comments section, although it’s one of the things a lot of people hate I just find some of the comments hilarious
So for now I’m mixxing (pun intended) up the sites I use on a regular basis — on a personal level not company…
Digg, Reddit, Sphinn, Propeller, Facebook, Mixx. How are you shaping up?
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