Web 2.0 News: Reddit Goes Open Source, Twitturly, TwitLinks

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Twitturly, or Twitt(url)y, is a new website that scans Twitter and looks for links people are talking about the most. It then assembles them onto its home page - making this into a really great news source. Twitt(url)y has got the same community appeal as Digg, but without the need to actually go out and vote on something. Instead, just Twittering about a subject and giving the URL is considered a vote, and the more links, the more it rises. Kind of like how Google uses PageRank in its algorithm.

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If you want the same kind of thing, but only for tech news, you can head on over to Twit Links and get an aggregated set of links built for the latest news in technology. The web design at TwitLinks.com is sparse, but powerful, giving you up to date news the minute it is twittered.

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Then there's SmashingFeeds, a site that mashes up content from Twitter and tons of other places that offer an RSS feed. It's free, and it doesn't even require a login to start using the features. You just point and click and view, wandering around and soaking in all that web 2.0 news.

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Next, if you are a book lover and want the same power of Digg or Delicious for your personal library, check out the social site called LibraryThing. It helps you catalogue almost all of your books for free, and you can carry on conversations with people who have the same books. If you have a lot of books, you can even buy a scanner and have your book automatically picked up via the ISBN number.

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And finally, in other social bookmarking news, Reddit the popular bookmarking site, is opening up their source code, allowing anyone in the community to make changes and fix bugs. What does this mean for the normal Reddit user? More popularity and more tools and widgets for using Reddit online. When Netscape opened its code, it gave birth to the Mozilla foundation and then to FireFox. Let's hope the same great
advances happen here.

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[mohawow]

We need to see more of these.........thanks bro.

[smallbizonlinecoach]

Brad! You rock! Always a wealth of information! I loved that information about LibraryThing - so cool with being able to buy a scanner and then begin conversations with people who have the same books. This could be very hot! I am a big fan of this social revolution that is coming. Will continue to follow you! Great work - thanks for being remarkable!