When Truemors came out, Guy Kawasaki wanted to give people the chance to submit rumors and other tidbits and then have the community vote whether it was interesting or not. Now Tip’d give that ability to recommend to something more like Digg.
Mu let me know last night about a new twist on this idea with a new site called Tip’d. The twist is that the submissions have a Digg-like voting system (tipping). For example when the Apple Store closed this morning I put a tip in that Apple would be announcing the MacBooks today: http://tipd.com/Tech/apple-store-down-heralds-new-macbooks-coming-shortly/.
By now we know that the new MacBooks have been announced so this isn’t the best example for news, however that doesn’t mean there isn’t something to say here.
Tip’d is a nice evolution of the news-tips-rumors site. By combing voting with rumors you can get some kind of validation on the information. After Truemors was acquired by NowPublic, which has a thumbs up/down kind of system as well, the lines between speculation and news started to blur. Hey, not that it hasn’t always been like that!
Will voting help validate and vett rumors and tips or just fan the flames of out of control speculation?
While I might not be 100% on this site, I have to say that more ability to help us find “popular” content is a good start to getting the wheat from the chaff.
So looking at this system, will this follow for other news sites?
Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
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