This past week has been absolutely amazing from a discovery standpoint.

Firstly, several new social sites have launched, I finished the big list of social sites (240 and counting) and I joined a couple of new social network sites.

Finds for the week

Popularo
Vote on news items in an interesting way, similar to "Hot or Not" except for news. A very interesting and different approach to social news. Popularo's claim to fame is the service discourages targeting submitters with revenge voting (no instabury, revenge or gang vote downs like you find on Digg).

jaanix

Social bookmarking service that allows users to vote on items submitted similar to social news voting. Users can comment on items and interact with the submitter. A very intriguing twist on social book marking.

Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a very simple social news application, with voting. Don't let it's subdued and simple interface fool you, Y Combinator ranks in the low 18,000 ranking at Alexa.

New Launches

Second Brain

Second Brain is quite interesting. I signed up this morning to give it a try. One thing that I see missing is the ability to pull our own blog RSS and only a limited number of services you can import. I am sure this will change in the near future. The interface is very intuitive and easy to use, even for a browsing clutz like myself.

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BricaBox

Bricabox is a new social content site builder application based on WordPress. I haven't had time to signup yet, but will very soon and provide more insight when I do. Personally I see BricaBox having to compete with personalized homepage sites like netvibes and pageflakes. I think though that the service has several unique features that will hopefully set it apart from the "herd".

socialthing!

socialthing I haven't heard back from socialthing yet in regards to joining the private beta. Until I can gain access to the services there isn't much I can say (good or bad) about the service.

"socialthing! is a digital life manager that puts what you do online into one place. See everything that's going on with your friends in all the sites you use, post stuff to multiple places at once and more!'

Iminta

Iminta is slick, smooth and easy to use. I really like what I am seeing on this social aggregator. For a beta application it is well finished and everything that I can find works as it should. Iminta recently expanded the number of services it can pull from to 26. I've been told by Aaron Newton that they will be rolling out additional services and features in the near future.

This week has been slow news wise, which is allows me to write and discover more. I will have a series of new articles ready to publish next week, so be sure to check back soon.

NOTE: Beginning March 1, 2007 I will be giving away a $30.00 Amazon gift certificate every two weeks for the best comment posted to a blog post on fvrit.com (1st-15th best comment and 16th-31st best comment). If this goes well I may begin to give away one every week. Click here for details.

As always, I enjoy reading and responding to your comments!

Have a great weekend!
Allen

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