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Growth · May 6, 2011

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Hubski: part blog, part news-aggregator, part social-feed.

Hubski is designed around the concept of sharing topically-broad, thoughtful discussion. In functionality, Hubski is part news-aggregator, part blogging-platform and part social-feed. Up front, Hubski looks and works most like a news aggregator, like HN. Hubski enables you to tag each post with a hashtag, and to follow tags and other users. Doing so builds your own personalized ‘hubfeed’ composed of the kind of content you like. To make sharing less dependent on the frontpage and voting, users can ‘hub’ a post they like, which sends it to the hubfeeds of their followers. This works like…

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Hubski is designed around the concept of sharing topically-broad, thoughtful discussion. In functionality, Hubski is part news-aggregator, part blogging-platform and part social-feed. Up front, Hubski looks and works most like a news aggregator, like HN. Hubski enables you to tag each post with a hashtag, and to follow tags and other users. Doing so builds your own personalized ‘hubfeed’ composed of the kind of content you like. To make sharing less dependent on the frontpage and voting, users can ‘hub’ a post they like, which sends it to the hubfeeds of their followers. This works like retweeting in Twitter, as posts can spread between people that want to share content. Furthermore, to foster the submission of content rich posts, text can be posted with links, links are active in the text, and urls of images and videos are embedded. Your submissions to Hubski constitute your ‘hub’, which is similar in format to a blog. I now use my hub as a blog actually: http://hubski.com/hub?id=mk The Karma system for Hubski is currency-based. Karma is spent on votes and converted into Clout which cannot be spent. A small amount of Karma is granted each day that you interact on the site. The more Clout and Followers you have, the more Karma that is granted to you. A 5-point (+ to +++++) grading system allows users to see the general value of a post or comment, but only owners of posts can see the actual score. Hubski has been up for a couple of months, and we have a small but energetic group which is having a good time of it. Although Hubski is just getting underway, current use has given me some direction for future development. I am working on the inter-user connections at the moment. It’s my goal to increase the ability to share and find good conversation with people you appreciate, while making it easy to keep noise to a minimum. My pal calls Hubski “The thinking-man’s Twitter”. -IMHO, that’s the highest compliment it’s been paid. Please have a look for yourself. And feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! BTW, I have been programming for about 6 months now. I decided I wanted to build my own apps, and started with Hubski. Yes, it’s built in Arc on top of the HN source code. I submitted it to HN about 6 weeks ago, but it really wasn’t ready for prime time, and I have done quite a bit of work on it since then. http://hubski.com

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    Hubski, my idea of a better aggregator2011 · ▲18

    One year ago, I downloaded the news.arc code and decided that I would teach myself programming by building a better aggregator. At that time, I had some rudimentary HTML knowledge, and little FORTRAN under my belt. I knew that I wanted an aggregator that could support a wide range of submissions, and one that could scale without losing quality for the user. Hubski is what I have to show for my time and effort. The easiest way to describe Hubski is to say that it uses a commenting system akin to HN or Reddit, but uses a sharing scheme like Twitter. You have a personal feed comprised of the…

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