I think Google+ could learn a valuable lesson from Digg about the importance of community, over design and features. I wrote about this here:
Digg'ing your own grave http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2012/07/13/digging-your-own-grave
After Digg, What's Next In News Aggregation
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Re: After Digg, What's Next In News Aggregation
#22Well to start there's: Reddit ( http://reddit.com ) Boxnutt ( http://boxnutt.com ) Snipit ( http://snip.it ) What others have you guys came across?
Not simple aggregation per-se, but http://dev.newsblur.com is showcasing a much more intelligent approach to social news discovery...
Re: After Digg, What's Next In News Aggregation
#23I wouldn't call this a "news aggregator" but they have hand-picked, curated editorials and news.
Re: After Digg, What's Next In News Aggregation
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is it different?
It delivers a personalized curated news feed which is informed by complex data analysis, recommendation, semantic-filtering and machine learning algorithms that use your elected interests and social graph as a data source. It's much more than simple aggregation. You can probably tell that I really like it; and no sir, I don't work for them (!)
The problem is, at least from my short meander over there, was that the categories of things is based on your usage of Facebook, Twitter, and/or Google+. Unfortunately I don't really use any of those things for sharing (only a Facebook account that I never post on) so this site isn't very useful for me.