Social News Trackers 101
Each of the below services are in our opinion social news trackers and forerunners to meme trackers. While the filter approach chosen by each differs the end results are unique clusters of news for their end user communities. Early entrants limited their focus to Tech and Politics. Greater awareness and adoption will be driven by the creation of more specialty areas of interest easily accessible across mobile devices.
Social News Tracker Reference Material
Jessica Mintz special WSJ report on the personalised newspaper
Newspapers to use links to rivals on web sites by Bob Tedeschi
How Digg works by Julia Layton
An eye for cool, and cash by Sara Kehaulani Goo
Young Internet Producers, Bankrolled, Are Seeking Act II by Miguel Helft
Forbes.com interview with Digg CEO Jay Adelson
The big Digg rig by Elinor Mills
New York Times adds sharing tool by John Cook
Digg raises $8.5 Million by Wendy Tanaka
Wikio secures $5.3M in Series A Funding
The Wizards of Buzz by Jamin Warren and John Jurgensen
Techmeme Leaderboard is live by Gabe Rivera
Msnbc.com buys social news site Newsvine by Alex Johnson
NYTimes.com launches enhanced technology section
SkyGrid finds gold in the wisdom of the webs by Carleen Hawn
Social News Tracker Providers