News is getting more and more personal

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Ever since the blogosphere started to evolv into a huge filter for information from around the world there has been a strong trend towards the personalisation of news. By personalisation I mean that in the constant overflow of information we use different kinds of filters and one of them is friends and people we trust. This means that your personal network with both friends and people that you only now digitally are filtering much of your news intake.

Services like Digg, reddit and Newsvine were early to build services where news were filtered by the users. This trend became even stronger when we saw micro-blogging services like Twitter, Jaiku, Plurk, Identi.ca and so on surface gain popularity.

Recently social aggretagors like FriendFeed and Socialthing have started to gain traction and our social information flows are aggretated on one or several places on the Internet now. Now we are seing a hybrid of a social aggretator and a social new site in a service called socialmedian. This is how they describe themselves:

“socialmedian is a social news network that connects people with personalized news and information.”

The service lets you join different news networks and get email notifications that tell you what is going on in your networks and “clip” news which basically is like “digging” an article on Digg.

It looks like an interesting service and I will try it out in the coming weeks and if I’ll stick to it I will let you know and post the link to my page on socialmedian.

//Tomas Nihlén, Editor in Chief

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