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NewsVine Starts Private Beta

Hands-on short preview on the next big thing for Web 2.0 web applications: NewsVine, the baby project of web standards guru Mike Davidson.

After playing around with it for a while, I can tell that this site’s gonna rock in 2006. For starterts and from my point of view, NewsVine is a news website that provides free membership, it starts from there. As a member, you can comment on news, vote on news, live chat on news, create news in your own column, seed news from other sites, and of course, read news by category, tags, author, region, source, etc.

It’s like a combination of Digg, Del.icio.us and Google News plus some hot new things like the live chat! The private beta started today with a beautiful, intuitive, and friendly interface loaded with cool AJAX tricks here and there to improve the user experience and – of course – reduce the bandwidth usage.

Despite a robust start and some interesting algorithms for sorting the news in the front-page, there are a few things missing (IMO) to make it the perfect news feeder web environment.

:: Karma System
:: Threaded Comments
:: Comment Score System

These three things have been part of Slashdot since 1998 yet few other sites have adopted / extended it.

The live chat per entry is – without doubt – the most interesting feature of the site, however, I was unable to test it, probably because I’m behind a corporate firewall…

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