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Mixx Launches Mixx Communities

June 26th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in Technology

Social media news aggregator Mixx recently launched “Mixx Communities.” It’s a Mixx extension where users can create a niche community site under the wings of Mixx. Members can contribute to the community by submitting their stories like they would normally on the larger Mixx community.

The created Mixx Community will be given its own subdomain. Community administrators can create their own niche topic tabs. This will enable content filtering for a smaller niche community. They are also allowed to customize the look and feel of the community site that they created. Administrators can personally brand their community site and insert their own logo, edit color schemes and post editorial content. They are also given the option to monetize their site by placing an Adsense unit (Shared revenues).

This is a great step for Mixx, offering its members to create their own niche social media community and earn a buck in the process. It’s like a BlogSpot for social media. Any member of Mixx can set up his/her own community. The setup process is quite easy that even a non techie person can create and customize a community in just a few minutes. Gathering members for the community is always the hardest part. Administrators can invite their Mixx friends to join in their newly created community and they can also send invitations by email.

With Reddit going opensource and Mixx making this community offering to its users, it would be interesting to know what Digg will come up with.

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UrTurn Pays You to Social Network

May 26th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in Tips N Tricks

There are already a number of web services out there who are willing to pay its users for using their site. Some of them I have already covered here. There is a new player in town, the only difference is that it pays you to use different social networks. UrTurn is a social media company that offers Rewards based on your interaction in your network. They developed a reward system where you can earn points for your activity in your social network. Currently, they are supporting Facebook and MySpace along with other social networks will be added in their list sometime in the future.

How it Works (FaceBook):

The system works like most Facebook applications. Just install the UrTurn application in your FaceBook account and start inviting friends to use UrTurn. By doing this, you are already earning reward points in your UrTurn account. If you already have an account, which is more likely, you will earn points by doing what you’re already been doing ever since you joined FaceBook. Earn points by inviting friends, adding photos, blogging and doing status updates. Once you have accumulated reward points, you can trade those points for cash in the UrTurn marketplace or save it up to redeem UrTurn reward items which currently include iPhones, iPods and Visa Gift Cards. The reward points per activity are shown in the image below.

This is an interesting service which will be most appealing to heavy users of social networking sites (as of now FaceBook users). If you are a FaceBook user and wants to earn some buck for using it, check out UrTurn and start inviting your friends and earn some rewards, and if they don’t give in, you can always SuperPoke them to death.

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