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Apple Matters launches Macitt, Apple-focused social news site

by David Chartier Aug 7th 2006 at 12:30PM


I knew something was up when I noticed my Apple Matters feed turn brown in NetNewsWire (that color means the feed hasn't been updated in over 60 days), and sho 'nuff, I was right. Today Apple Matters launched Macitt, an Apple-centric social news site (or: 'digg clone', if you wanna go that route). Logins for Apple Matters will also work for Macitt, and all the typical social news features seem to be present. A tabbed panel with a list of categories adorns the top right of the page, while accompanying tabs list top users, a tag cloud and a submit section. Yea, that's right: a big advantage Macitt has over digg's system is tagging, which other social news sites seem to be adopting more and more often.

Ultimately, it looks like a strong offering that will probably be well-accepted as long as the word gets around, but I'm starting to worry about an overabundance of social news services. After all, a guy can only take so much socializing before he starts mis-tagging headlines and forgets to vote.

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Hadley Stern

Hey, Hadley from Apple Matters here...thanks for the link! But Apple Matters is not going anywhere. Macitt is another project unrelated to Apple Matters. Not sure what is up with your Apple Matters feed. Drop me an email and we'll figure it out!

August 07 2006 at 2:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John

The concept is the same, and the sites look similar, and the interface it the same. Get used to it. Unless you think one blog is any different from another blog (stories in reverse chronological order, comments), then you have to brace yourself for the Pligg-powered sites that are going to pop up all over the place.( http://pligg.com )

Not that niche-Diggs are a bad thing, they are more specific in scope than Digg, and with that specificity goes the mad site hits. It's not like Digg will lose any sleep over the copycats, as they just don't have the reach.

All I can say about Macitt is that I hope they clean up those images. It looks a little rough right now.

August 07 2006 at 1:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kurt Zenisek

Yeah, it's sad that digg opened up this great idea of user driven promotion of information and all that other people can think of is keep everything the same only change the color scheme and tiny little differences.
I wonder why nobody has used this way of user driven content, but integrate it into a new User Interface?

August 07 2006 at 1:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
walkingmac

seems like a blantant rip of digg IMHO

August 07 2006 at 1:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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