TBSW, in summary, is a pure Web 2.0 ( means it's in beta and is made of light colors ).
Its concept is simple : people vote for what they love, and these stuffs get front page. Ideas, objects, or famous people are shown in a gallery, and they are on the homepage.
It evolves permanently, and if in the beginning only geeks were using it ( we had linux, firefox or c++ on the front page ... ) it's now much more interesting, and things like Music, or Chocolate or ... Boobs ( sic! ) are present.
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Digg was designed as an efficient news platform. Visitors can post news, but they can also vote, and the most voted news get on the homepage.
If it was originally made for geeks and nerds, it's now open to every topics, and offers interesting and independent news.
But Digg is also victim of the spam, and its (active) community may bring problems in the future.
First of all, news that get on the homepage are sometimes astonishingly uninteresting, such as a big bunch of photoshop tutorials. It's easy to explain that : people vote for the...
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Jamendo is 2 years old. It was a french music platform, but it nows supports several languages.
Its distributes free music, offering to the musicians a window to the public, and to the public more than 2500 albums.
Based on CreativeCommons, titles are free, and classed by a tagging system.
Very complete, permanently evolving, with an active community, Jamendo is one of the best free music provider on the Web.
StumbleUpon evolves everyday ( lately they launched stumble.tv, a Wii version of videos.stumbleupon.com ) .
I find the site extremly useful, very active, and merely one of the best concept of the Web. Besides, it's very well done.
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