Thoof - Digg-like News Website
It may have a crazy name, but the concept behind Thoof is not. Users of Thoof submit their favorite articles - much like in the same fashion as Digg and other similar websites. The difference with Thoof is that it gives each article submitted an equal shot at gaining in popularity. So many times with Digg if a story doesn’t receive a bunch of diggs then no one ever sees it. Thoof puts all stories on equal footing, which means more exposure to your articles and better quality news rises to the top.
Signing up is easy and adding a story is simple, too. Other users can add to the article description of stories. Each story must have two tags before it can be submitted. Thoof also remembers which stories you read and will display stories that it thinks might be of interest to you. It’s like TIVO but for the web.
Thoof could be a very useful tool in the social media circles since it has the same kind of style we are used to but with a slightly different twist on how it determines popularity.
July 29th, 2007 at 10:04 am
what does name “Thoof” mean?
The problem is how many similar social media bookmarking services can co-exist together?