Is there any hint of what the site will do for me? "social|median is a social news service that connects people with personalized news and information" sounds alot like what I am getting from MyYahoo (or Google News).
Michael -- this is from Jason Goldberg, founder of socialmedian in response to your question. First, let me say that this is ALPHA in every way -- there's very little polish and we've spent 0 time on messaging, faq's, about files, etc. yet. We've only been at this for a few weeks in total. -- Our site basically asks (and is attempting to answer) a big question: What if, instead of just the media companies filtering t…
I think you guys are using Rails, but the site is just so dogslow, why? Perhaps consider adding more mongrel instances, are your servers hitting its load with only 2000 users? The slowness of the site sorted of turned me off when I first tried the site. Remember social news is a tough market to fight in, so the first impression counts.
I also suggest you post your design competition on 99designs.com, I'm not sure how many people knows about your design competition. A $1000 prize would definitely draw a lot of entries.
Any finally, is Jason Goldberg - the Jason Goldberg from Jobster? Just curious.