//beconfused

My previous blog post got picked up by Mallr, a website that I haven’t heard before till 20 minutes ago.

The above is the all-famous Digg.com.

Here is the similar Mallr.com.

Mallr.com has a similar interface to Digg.com, just uglier. The developer has to work on the colors (just like I have to work on my blog’s colors) and resolve some bugs. If you try to vote with Mallr, Mallr throws you an error while Digg actually gives you the field to log in.

Mallr has a tiny community and viewership is crucial to the success of these social bookmarking websites. And they need a bunch of people who love to bookmark. It needs to position itself different from Digg to be successful or it would be just the Mallr of nobody-knows-where. Perhaps promoting tagging in the website may help.

The ability to blog from Digg is great too, although I always edit my post after I blog from Digg to add the categories and pictures and stuff. Mallr could have something similar.

The great thing about Mallr is that it is quite regionalized (or perhaps localized). I see local (Singapore) websites and news more which is a good place for Singaporeans to gather. The problem with Digg is that it’s just too American and I wish there were more news about Asian regions too. I will definately keep Mallr under my radar for a while.

The sign-up process is easy, the profile update is quite user-friendly but not as friendly as Digg. There’s a lot of work to do and it’s sinful to copy too much from Digg. It might be successful in the future. I haven’t got a chance to find out more about Mallr. Do comment here if you have more information about Mallr.

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