Hi! I am Edward Perry, your host and welcome to the first episode of Web Review TV where we review websites and their features. We are going to have a website to review every Monday, Wednesday and Friday so thanks for watching and let's get to the show.
Socialmedian is a social news aggregator with the twist. Instead just subscribing to individual people, and what they say on broad set of topics, a usually will set up a broadcast channel which will have a theme or topic for all the news posted to that channel. Not for that user. Now this news could be from a standard news feed or from the users themselves. It depends on how they have set it up. I have already set up an account with them. So let's take a look at the screen when you log in.
Alright as I mentioned I have already logged in. This is the first screen when you get in. Basically you can see all the latest news that's happening as it's been released. Some of the features to go over real quick we have Clip It. We have Add Comments, you can share it. The mood that it puts you in and the other little interesting links that are in here.
Alright to start with you have a Clip It. Clip It lets people know you like this article and when you click on it, it now puts you at the top. Hey! These two people have clipped the article. So you can see who is basically liking the article, like Digg. In addition you can add some comments to it. So if you want a strike up a conversation with the author. You can put something in there. Or if you want a twitter about it you can do that or email or put it on your own network.
Okay so this is the main screen. It pretty much keeps repeating this type of flow with the articles. Now you have other things like well, okay, the articles about me. My News feeds. Okay, well we can see that is the same article that I clipped is right here on the top, and then the CNN hologram and then Barack Obama and so on and so on.
Alright so you know basically anybody who is following you will see these clipped articles. These are what you are interested in. So you almost become a new source for yourself. You know so if people like what you are putting there say you are a rock star and any article that's dealing with you or your band, you know you would have that in you. Then you also have My Networks.
Now in here I have nothing setup right now. What you would get is these subscribed networks that you subscribe to. Okay what do I mean by that. Well right up here on the top News Networks. Well let just look at the popular ones. Well we have Web 2.0, Tech News, Social Media Watch and you if we look at it 2255 other networks. But we will just take the most popular one, Web 2.0 and let's join that topic. We can see how many users are subscribed to it, the number of topics, and the number of stories.
So once you have that scribe it now only gives you the option to quit this network. Now these are just the categories that are out there. They are not the news articles themselves. So now we want to go back to My Network and we will see or should see Web 2.0 in this screen. Okay these are My Networks. When you clip on Web 2.0 it will actually take you to a page with all the articles that are going on. Alright, as we can see update on Google i-Phone, Voice recognition application. Nice.
Okay again you have all the same things of the main screen. So you can you can see who have submitted it where it was from, the other networks that is recording to, all that stuff. So now this is mostly the site. As you can see you get labeled in there and you can see who else is subscribed to this network. The other thing that you can do is not only see what's the top of the news for that category but you can also see what popular topics are out there. What are the popular stories, the popular newsmakers. A newsmaker is just someone who actually publishes new content.
But any way check out the site. I am not covering everything but check it out if you see something really interesting let me know about it. Maybe we will come back and re-review the site.
Well that's www.socialmedian.com. A very interesting website. It has the promising feature and it has a lot of competition. But I have a feeling that will be successful. We will check back into this website when they get out of there, and then see what they have changed and what new features they have added. So in the next episode we are going to review www.bzzster.com. Bzzster.com. Thanks for watching the first broadcast of www.webreviewtv.com. If you have any comments or suggestions or even advice just shoot me an email at comments@webreviewtv.com. Have a good tech day.
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