Tuesday, October 2, 2007
I don't know if folks at Mixx heard me complaining that I hadn't been invited to the BETA testing of their new network/share site, but this morning I had an invite to register. Mixx for all intensive purposes is a lot like Digg. In fact, Mixx is probably the first real competition for Digg.
You vote for your favorite links whether a new story, photo or video and all users have a chance to comment, etc. As you continue working through the site you receive Karma points. I think the Karma points are a great feature, because it forces you to look around and comment and vote on other peoples things. So it's not just about self-promotion of your own material.
You create a profile, upload a brief bio and an icon or photo and off you go. Submitting a link is super easy. Voting is super easy. And right off the bat you can sort through stories and links easily because the front page has everything categorized. Whereas on Digg everything is thrown into one giant feed.
You add friends to follow if you find someone has a lot of content you share common interest in. Another interesting feature is the groups. You can create a group and join a group. I'm not sure what this segment is about yet, but I will be dabbling. I do know that if you create a group you decide just how private you want the settings to be. I suppose you can think of that like you would control the privacy settings in Facebook.
Aside for being better organized than most other network/bookmark sites, I feel this interface is cleaner and far more user friendly. To me it is intuitive to be able to sort through popular and most recently added links PER category all on the same front page of the site. This means less clicking and easier voting.
Mixx, I'm sticking with ya, well done!
Labels: bookmarking, MIXX
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