{"id":142,"date":"2008-04-01T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/2008\/04\/01\/yet-another-digg-clone\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T18:12:12","slug":"yet-another-digg-clone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/2008\/04\/01\/yet-another-digg-clone\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another Digg clone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading the blogs today we came across a new Digg<\/a> like service (clone) called Publish2<\/a>. Essentially the service is Digg meets del.icio.us<\/a> aimed at journalists<\/a> where anyone is said to be able to seed links in the system but only journalists are given with the chance to vote for them. However, one person testing the service has said about Publis2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like Delicious, I would never use the public part of the service, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m too competitive to share my research with other journalists.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d There are way too many Digg followers lately trying to catch up on the huge popularity (traffic) Digg generates, – well over 22M unique visitors per month. While every new start up in the same space holds its chances and brings some new interesting features on the table it is hard for us to believe anyone will ever get closer to what Digg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s today popularity is. The ideas are many, the executions are good but even Digg has yet to prove its business model, let alone those smaller players.<\/p>\n

Publish2 has today announced $2.75M in series A round of funding<\/a> coming from Velocity Interactive Group<\/a>. The company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founders are Robert Young<\/strong> and Scott Karp<\/strong> who are former GigaOm<\/a> contributors.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other companies in the space include Digg<\/a>, Reddit<\/a>, Netscape\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Propeller.com<\/a>, MSNBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Newsvine<\/a>, Mixx<\/a>, Pligg<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n

More about Publish2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Publish2<\/a> is an online news aggregation<\/a> platform, designed to empower journalists<\/a> to discover, organize, and rank the most important news \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to benefit their own reporting, their newsrooms, and all news consumers on the web.<\/p>\n

If you are a journalist, you can register for the Publish2 Beta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. Easy Online Bookmarks<\/p>\n

Bookmarking Tool<\/p>\n

You can save interesting articles and story research with one click, tag your bookmarks to keep them organized, and access your bookmarks from any computer.<\/p>\n

Private or Public<\/p>\n

If you like, you can save your bookmarks privately for your own personal use. No one else will see your bookmarks. Or you can choose to save your bookmarks publicly to influence what others read.<\/p>\n

For Reporters<\/p>\n

Publish2 makes your research and reporting proccess a lot more efficient.<\/p>\n

For Editors<\/p>\n

Publish2 bookmarks can also be published on a blog or web site as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153recommended reading\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or article references (using an RSS feed of your bookmarks).<\/p>\n

2. A Powerful News Aggregator<\/p>\n

Power of the Link<\/p>\n

Links determine what gets read online. Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s search engine gets its power by interpreting links to content as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153votes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for importance.<\/p>\n

Front Page<\/p>\n

Because Publish2 is exclusively for journalists, combining all of the bookmark \u00e2\u20ac\u0153links\u00e2\u20ac\u009d creates a powerful aggregator of the best articles. The more journalists bookmark a story, the higher it ranks in Publish2\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s news aggregation \u00e2\u20ac\u201d just as content rises higher in Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s search results as more people link to it.<\/p>\n

Take Back Control<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like Digg for professional journalists, who understand the news and are experts on their beats. By using Publish2, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll help promote high quality journalism and take back control from amateurs and algorithms.<\/p>\n

For Reporters<\/p>\n

You can influence what others read by choosing to save your bookmarks publicly.<\/p>\n

For Editors You can use Publish2 as an editorial platform for creating compelling topical news aggregations, powered by the collective intelligence<\/a> of journalists.<\/p>\n

3. Professional Profile<\/p>\n

Resume<\/p>\n

Manage your online identity as a journalist<\/p>\n

My Clips<\/p>\n

Showcase links to your best reporting<\/p>\n

#1 Search Result<\/p>\n

Have your profile appear first when someone searches for you online<\/p>\n

More<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.publish2.com\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/publish2.com\/register<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/03\/31\/heres-a-screenshot-of-publish2\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/03\/31\/publish2-velocity\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/gigaom.com\/2007\/08\/14\/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/gigaom.com\/author\/gigarobertyoung\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2008\/03\/31\/publish2-raises-a-round-aims-to-bring-more-journalists-to-the-web\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.velocityig.com\/<\/a><\/font><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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