AntStorm is a new bookmarking tool that hopes to change the way in which we aggregate information and search for data on the Web. Think of it as a Mahalo with more involved user interaction, based on self-selecting organized groups within the AntStorm community. At the core of AntStorm is its bookmarklet and its group formations, which can act to provide relevant and cultivated information.

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The social news revolution has exploded into all areas of media now with players like yahoo, mixx and digg all now competing for the mass traffic in an already overcrowded market. We already know that if you blog posts is lucky enough to make the front page of digg you can expect between 60k and 100k of visits depending on time of day etc. With so many blogs on the larger sites receiving 2 - 5 votes are there any alternatives dealing only in blog posts? actually there are quite a few niche social news sites catering only for bloggers they wont bring a digg effect of traffic but they will help get your content more exposure than a 2 dugg digg link.

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Yahoo Buzz a social news network you guessed it run by Yahoo has now opened up fully to the public, before today only a small handful of publishers could submit content in a bid to iron out any pre-public release kinks. Yahoo Buzz is very much a mainstream social news site with huge potential.

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Pligg vs Drigg is a question thats commonly asked in social news circles, Tony Mobily the creator for the Drigg for Drupal project yesterday wrote and article titled “How do Drigg and Pligg compare?”. If you haven’t read Tony’s article already and you are thinking of starting or already own a social news site it’s worth a look and raises some great points although we do disagree with one of them, sort of…

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Social News websites are very much in fashion nowadays, a social news website is a site where the community members rather than an editor take control of the content and ultimately decide whats hot or not. For bloggers in particular Social News websites can be a great source of traffic if your lucky enough to get an article published on their front page that is. With so many of these sites now available though you might not know about them all, we thought it would be nice to draw your attention to some of them that have become established over time.

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Scour a recently launched social search engine which rewards users for searching, voting or commenting upon search results has just made it’s first reward payment to a member of the site Peter Yu of British Columbia, Canada.

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Del.icio.us 2.0 finally launched to the public yesterday, most of the changes are design related with the site now having a much better layout than before. The team have also hinted at some speed improvements after moving the whole sites infrastructure, overhauling the search engine along with some other changes that hopefully make Del.icio.us easier to learn for new members and more usable for existing ones.

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SocialBrowse which is backed by Y Combinator have been in a private beta testing phase of their services for sometime now. SocialBrowse has been described as twitter for links, the service however offers many more cool features than simply link sharing. Being that SocialBrowse is in private BETA stages you will need an invite to access to the site and available FireFox Plugin. SoclalBrowse CEO Zak Garbow was kind enough to provide us with 50 exclusive invites for our readers, the first 50 people to visit our unique SocialBrowse URL will be able to gain access to the beta service.

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In january this year Reddit announced the ability for users to create there very own custom reddit sites, custom reddit content is moderated by the created Reddit’s owner and selected moderators. Wouldn’t it be cool if Digg allowed this sort of custom digg feature, according to Digg CEO Jay Adelson in six months it will.

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Matt Cutts a respected Google software engineer has revealed that Google will change it’s toolbar pagerank for sites in the coming few days, websites that had also previously been penalized by Google will now have their pre-existing pagerank penalties lifted as part of the new changes.

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