I like Digg but would like to see a site that pulls the top articles from the NY Times and other newspapers sites—the most emailed articles from a wide range of newspapers, perhaps broken down into categories. Maybe there’s a site that does this already? But I usually scan the front page of the NY Times and then look to see the most emailed articles, and find some great ones. This article for instance, I think found a life of its own on a number of occasions. Becoming a viral article that moved up and down the most emailed list a few times: NY Times article
‘AS I wash dishes at the kitchen sink, my husband paces behind me, irritated. “Have you seen my keys?” he snarls, then huffs out a loud sigh and stomps from the room with our dog, Dixie, at his heels, anxious over her favorite human’s upset.
In the past I would have been right behind Dixie. I would have turned off the faucet and joined the hunt while trying to soothe my husband with bromides like, “Don’t worry, they’ll turn up.” But that only made him angrier, and a simple case of missing keys soon would become a full-blown angst-ridden drama starring the two of us and our poor nervous dog.
Now, I focus on the wet dish in my hands. I don’t turn around. I don’t say a word. I’m using a technique I learned from a dolphin trainer.’
I site called mostemailed.com which is essentially like digg.com but with categories based on their sources, demographics….
I’d also like to create a service type of site that sends articles to visitors based upon their esoteric wants or their passions let’s say. I see this happening with Digg clones for specific niches, whether it’s a site for the NBA and news surrounding basketball but I’d like to see Digg expand this on their site, where you could track the most popular pages or articles on certain portals, newspapers, magazines, and so on.
Google news offers an option where you can select a company or brand that you want to get news on. It then automatically updates your personalized homepage with content related to that theme.