Kinja

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Kinja is a free online news aggregator in beta form, launched in April 2004.

[edit] History

With the intention of making web logs more accessible to the daily public, Nick Denton of Gawker Media and Meg Hourihan of Pyra Labs created Kinja, which began as an investigation into the navigation of web logs. Finally dubbed Kinja in October of 2003, Kinja first launched in April of 2004. Kinja is currently in beta form, and it is unknown as to the transition date of Kinja to its final form.

[edit] Usage

This is a screenshot of the Media digest collection at Kinja.

Kinja is a personal web service that allows its users to "bookmark" blogs, Kinja providing the user with excerpts of recent posts of the chosen logs. These excerpts, known as personal "digests", are compiled into one page's worth of excerpts, with other categorized compilations available based on such labels as media, music, liberal, conservative, and more. A user's personal choice of digests are easily available to any outside user, allowing others to share their favorite blogs and recent blog posts. Utilizing a webcrawler dubbed Kinjabot, (similar to Google's webcrawlers) Kinja creates an internal index of all available web logs as defined by Kinjabot.