Social News Web Startup, Mixx, May Be The New Digg
New startup Mixx, which went in to private beta just two months ago, may be finding itself with the right product at the right time. Digg users, including top contributors, are showing an increasing amount of frustration with the Digg community, and many are leaving.
Chris McGill, formerly the General Manager of Yahoo News and more recently the VP Strategy at USA Today is the founder of the social news site called Mixx. To put it into context, it’s a sort of cross between Digg, LinkedIn and MyYahoo.
Compete shows traffic rising dramatically since launch, without the usual drop off that occurs after the initial press about a site dies down. It’s still a blip compared to Digg, the fact that early adopters are leaving Digg and quite vocally telling the world about it, Mixx may be a startup to keep an eye on.