So, I was sitting here drinking my favorite Houston Beer, surfing around on StumbleUpon & Digg, all the while, listening to my “Random411″ Playlist on my iTunes.
I was going thru some of my many RSS feeds, and found a good article entitled “7 Simple Cheerful Activities to Cure the Blues.” I liked it. It made sense to me, so I changed the title up, as I pretty much always do, and then submit it to digg.
As a complete social media addict, I then turned around submitted the same article to Mixx,thumbed it up on StumbleUpon and finished the hat-trick by tagging in Del.icio.us. No problems whatsoever doing this on any of the sites.
I then continued to browse thru my RSS feeds, and I came upon TIME Mag. I found this article about Detroit Mayors recent sex-scandal. I’m already a natural fan of TIME mag online, but I liked how the article read. I thought it was a perfect digg submission.
So, I completed another hat trick and submitted it to all the social media sites…including reddit, which I hardly ever do! But, this time I encountered a problem when submitting the story to Mixx.
It was some sort of a “Duplicate Alert - We may already have this story”. I’m used to this, because every story is potentially a duplicate of each other if you analyze and compare keywords.
As you can see, Mixx gave me a three very unique options:
- Update of the same story
- Different Perspective of a Popular Story
- Same story, but from a different site
I went ahead and clicked on ‘Different Perspective’ since I felt that my story reported the same news, but from, ironically enough, a different perspective. My submission had no problems afterwards… and was submitted with no issues.
Mixx’s Duplicate feature isn’t anything great. It’s nothing spectacular or revolutionary. I know, in reality it’s something really small and stupid. But, for some reason, it really struck a chord with me. I liked it. I liked the choices that I was given. I was glad to see the different options that Mixx provided me with.
It’s just one more thing that makes me smile, as I continue to explore the Mixx world!
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Hi Jeff, glad you’ve found Related Assets to be useful over on Mixx! We toiled over how to best build that feature, going through a number of overly complicated ideas. After going through all that, we realized that the “stupid simple” method would likely work best.
I have to agree with your post… The “Duplicate Alert” on Mixx is much more user-friendly than the one on digg. Because, just like you said.. It gives you different options… And I like Options.
But, yes, if you put it all in perspective… it’s a really small & stupid feature on Mixx… which is why I like Mixx so much!
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