Social news

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Social news is the process of allowing users to submit, vote on, and make the news that they choose what is shown to them.

The movement was created by community sites like Slashdot and Fark. The idea of social news catapulted into popularity with Kevin Rose's Digg, which combined del.icio.us and Slashdot's features. Digg and del.icio.us have inspired a number of other sites including Reddit and Netscape.

More recently, the social news phenomenon has spawned a number of news aggregator sites. These collect and group articles based on growing web interest -- presenting users with a reflexive news feed. Essentially, as long as people are writing about new trends, ideas and occurrences the social aggregators will feature them. Tailrank[1], Techmeme[2], Buzzfeed[3] and Daylife[4] are examples of this.


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