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Re: Is Mixx Growing Fast Enough?

Jay — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:40:34 -0000

Well, I think the whole environment of Mixx is a LOT better than Digg... and the people at Mixx are a lot friendlier as well.

Jay

Re: Is Mixx Growing Fast Enough?

KatFrench — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:51:12 -0000

I think that placement on those big media sites is just seizing the high ground, so to speak. Social news is still young. I would say it's definitely still well on the left side of the bell curve of adoption. As usage moves over to encompass more of those later adopters (bearing in mind there's probably a large slice of the population who'll never adopt it) I think Mixx will be well-positioned to grab that audience, but at this point I think their strategy for growth probably needs to be convincing existing social news users to migrate.

As gregory says, the front page is a mishmash... but on Mixx, I almost never visit the front page--I land on my personal homepage, which is pre-filtered to have only the stories most likely to appeal to me. Which is, ultimately, what I think will convert more people to using social news.

Re: Is Mixx Growing Fast Enough?

RJ — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:34:28 -0000

I totally agree with gregory. Digg's front page articles are the same trash and propaganda put out by the media. And the Yahoo front page still sucks.

Re: Is Mixx Growing Fast Enough?

gregory — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:07:54 -0000

big media = passive consumers .. so those connections won't help community feel

and what is on the front page? useless time-waste crap, reminds me of yahoo front page 2002

Re: Is Mixx Growing Fast Enough?

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:52:28 -0000

@Marshall, I agree that there is a serious implementation problem. Putting a link alone doesn't really help if you don't know what it's there for. I also agree that from nothing to something isn't fair but I gotta give support for the local startups :)

It doesn't mean your a jerk for writing the post, I just think that a balance analysis would have been nice. Then again, perhaps my post isn't completely balanced.

Re: Is Mixx Growing Fast Enough?

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:44:10 -0000

:) I wish Mixx nothing but the best, I really do. Going from nothing to something and then calling it a 3000% increase doesn't mean much, though. 1 million uniques in a month would be a dream come true for a typical startup, but Mixx isn't a typical startup. They are placed prominently in these very high media properties. Put that next to the traffic and one would conclude that "Most readers of mainstream media sources probably don’t know what Digg, del.icio.us or Mixx is and what their purpose is." That sounds like an implementation problem to me. I'm sure that they worked hard trying to figure out how to convert that placement into clicks and it hasn't really worked very well - for whatever reason. That's what I'm saying. I'm going to stop saying it though because I feel like I'm being a jerk. I stand behind my post though and think that early numbers on the clickthroughs point to problems in implementation.