A while back I wrote an article about Thoof, a site where you can submit personalized news
with relevant tags. Thoof is a bit more fair than services like Digg
and gives users a chance for news and articles to stand on their own
merits and newsworthiness. I have used it off and on since I wrote
about them and have found some really good articles through the site.
Thoof has now added the ThoofRank button which you can see at the bottom of this post. I tried it out initially on a post I wrote last week on Net Neutrality and the FCC and submitted that article to Thoof!. Of course I already have an account there so it was very quick and easy to submit, but even if you don't have one yet it doesn't take long at all to get started. The ThoofRank button is extremely easy to submit in your post as well. It's a very short piece of code containing an iFrame. All you do is copy and paste (ctrl-c, ctrl-v). Can't get much easier than that.
ThoofRank is basically a fair measure of how interesting a story is to other readers with interests in common with that story. So if I embedded it in one of my BeyondTV reviews you would think it would have a decent ThoofRank after awhile as that has been one of the more popular articles here. When a story is first submitted it normall y has a low rank and as it grows in popularity as ThoofRank of 50% or better means that it is of above average interest to other readers. The more people see the article the higher in rank it goes. That's the reason that Thoof is so much different than other social netowrking news sites because with them, if you don't get a sufficient amount of hits at the beginning it is hard to hit critical mass and get noticed before the story is buried by 600 more that have come along.
Thoof has now added the ThoofRank button which you can see at the bottom of this post. I tried it out initially on a post I wrote last week on Net Neutrality and the FCC and submitted that article to Thoof!. Of course I already have an account there so it was very quick and easy to submit, but even if you don't have one yet it doesn't take long at all to get started. The ThoofRank button is extremely easy to submit in your post as well. It's a very short piece of code containing an iFrame. All you do is copy and paste (ctrl-c, ctrl-v). Can't get much easier than that.
ThoofRank is basically a fair measure of how interesting a story is to other readers with interests in common with that story. So if I embedded it in one of my BeyondTV reviews you would think it would have a decent ThoofRank after awhile as that has been one of the more popular articles here. When a story is first submitted it normall y has a low rank and as it grows in popularity as ThoofRank of 50% or better means that it is of above average interest to other readers. The more people see the article the higher in rank it goes. That's the reason that Thoof is so much different than other social netowrking news sites because with them, if you don't get a sufficient amount of hits at the beginning it is hard to hit critical mass and get noticed before the story is buried by 600 more that have come along.
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