Web Strategy Micksup

Saw an invite for Social Median on Read/Write Web and thought I’d try it over morning coffee.

It’s basically a more social version of Digg combined to be a news reader. But it doesn’t build on my feeds, or didn’t seem to, and didn’t give me a hell of a lot more than other aggregators.

Some interesting potential, but it didn’t give me enough to start using it and that means that the network effect will be tough to build.

The app itself was fairly easy to use, although some of the components weren’t immediately obvious about what they did. The ranking was good, but I thought it was actually going to reorder the priorities for me, but it was more of a group voting mechanism.

Ways they could focus:
1. Just do web 2.0 first.
2. Import my OPML, APML and Twitter friends to start with. Or at least use a friend finder.
3. Have some key people to follow straight up. Just 2-3 people that will get me going. Make me know they are worth following.
4. Give me headlines first, and let me expand later. Lots of summaries are hard to browse.

Your thoughts?

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