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USA Today launched over the weekend, several layers of social Web 2.0 features to their site.
Some of the features include:
- Commenting on articles
- Digg-like feature where you can "recommend" a story
- User profiles named "personal space" with Avatars
- Photo submission area via "Shutter speed"
- A "Community Center" to keep up with friends
- Tagging
- More searching
This is a big step for a major news publisher, and I am sure many will follow suit.
Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums and WebmasterWorld (paid subscription required).
Comments:
Li Evans
03/05/2007 02:56 pm
Barry - It's even got a "myspace" like clone where in the "personal space" you can have your own blog that other USA Today Community Members can read. :) Pretty fancy for a newspaper site!
Barry Schwartz
03/05/2007 02:58 pm
Very exciting. At what point do we have too many? That is the other thread at CRe8.