Three Reason You Need to Use Mixx
User submitted news is nothing new. Neither is allowing users to vote on stories. You can digg it, reddit, and sphinn it, but the one that has caught my attention is Mixx.com. So why should you consider using Mixx.com?
1. Mixx Cuts Through the Noise. This is a blessing and a curse because part of how they cut through the noise is by not having as much noise to deal with. Mixx is smaller so that means less submissions, but also less content. The content that makes the cut seems to be of good quality for the most part, so its something I’m willing to live with.
2. Customizable “Your Mixx”. Mixx is great because you can plug in keywords you want to track and articles that are tagged with your keywords show up on your customized homepage (called Your Mixx). So if you don’t want to wade through articles about how legalizing (fill in the blank), OMGWTFKSRSLY [pic] and whatever else may flood the user submitted sites, you can strip it all away and get only what you want.
3. Mixx Makes for Great Keyword Targeting. The nature of the site is to show people what they are interested in, not just a laundry list. Hmm, sounds like what a search engine does. Where there is search, there is money to be made. Use your imagination on what this could do for you, but there is some real potential here.
In addition, Mixx offers a lot of other cool tools, an API so you can customize it even more and the Blender where they show off some of the cool things people have made with the API.
July 31, 2008
1:45 pm
