Kontrib, a Digg clone with translation

Kontrib is a new site that copies the popular social news site Digg, but translates articles into foreign languages.

Traffic on the site is light, because it is still early days, but worth a mention because it flies in the face of the blatant disregard most mainstream sites have for foreign markets. Indeed, investors and others often even shy away from companies if they have too much exposure abroad, in part because of their inability … Continue Reading

MyUlist, for social college classifieds

MyUlist wants to liven things up for online classifieds at college campuses — an area that so far has been humdrum.

The Cupertino, Calif. start-up wants to be more than a Craigslist clone for colleges. It offers a Digg clone too. Instead of submitting articles, though, students write in with “campus buzz” and this can be about any issue on their mind. Others can comment, or give a thumbs-up or down, and the entry rises … Continue Reading

Useful local search sites, Boorah and SuggestLocal

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Boorah and SuggestLocal are two new useful local search sites worth a look.

Boorah provides a clean, elegant search for restaurants by city, ranking them by the quality of reviews and other mentions they get from around the web. SuggestLocal, meanwhile, provides a useful engine to find pretty much any type of vendor, with a way to easily send it to your friends, along with notations, map, nearby parking and other information.

At a … Continue Reading

Jyve, gives you collaborated search results

Jyve is another search engine trying to use online collaboration to answer your questions.

It is like Cha-Cha, which does something similar, letting real people answer your questions. But Jyve says it is better because it can link you with experts in the topic area you are asking about. It gives you a way to IM/chat with the people answering your question, and if it merits in-depth research, the person providing the answer can ask … Continue Reading

coRank, lets your trusted sources rank your news

coRank is another news ranking site, similar to Digg in style, but ranks the news according to how interesting your friends and other pre-selected sources find it.

There is a tour here.

Digg has the sheer numbers, surpassing a million registered accounts earlier this month, but it still hasn’t locked things up. As has been widely publicized, it is vulnerable to being gamed and influenced by cliques — and is mainly popular among the tech … Continue Reading