I’ve just read about Spotplex a new news aggregator that TechCrunch seem to think has the potential to be better than Digg, as it can’t be abused by users.
Spotplex decides which stories to put on its homepage based on which stories are read the most. It tracks reads by getting sites to add code to their site that reports back how many times a post has been read.
I just can’t see how this will allow the average site or blog to hit the homepage as the uberblogs will dominate page views so they will always get on the homepage, over and over again. Spotplex say that once they end their beta they will continuously tweak their algorithm to ensure everyone gets a fair crack.
You know me, I’ll do anything for more traffic so even though I’m sceptical, I’ve still fired off an email to signup@spotplex.com as apparently the first 1000 sites to do so will get included in the beta.
More: TechCrunch
Sounds interesting.
Thanks for the heads up!
Good Stuff….will definitely look into. Thanks for sharing info like this.