Tipd 1.0 Launch

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the beta launch of financial news site, Tipd, a social media site focused on investing and personal finance, and how I joined the team as blogger outreach. Well the day has arrived for Tipd to official announce its departure from beta with a new features and a little bit of fanfare.

Many of the new features are focused on users but there are a few in there for bloggers too! Let’s take a look at them.

New 1.0 features:

• All links from ‘published’ stories are now plain html links to your submissions. We don’t use any redirects, and no nofollows!
• We’ve added 2 new categories that were in high demand. These categories are ‘business’ and ‘entrepreneurship’.
• Our ‘add to tip’d’ button/script now has its own server so sites/blogs using the button don’t have to worry about their site getting slowed down because of external javascript calls.
• The ‘topple’ functionality (the burying/down-voting functionality) has been overhauled and made more robust.
• Stories now show the time made popular along with time submitted.
• You can now subscribe to published stories via email in addition to RSS.
• Site navigation has been made simpler and breadcrumbs have been implemented sitewide.
• Upcoming stories are sortable in chronological order as well as by popularity.
• Duplicate story handling has been improved. Users are now automatically redirected to the existing submission (the original to their duplicate).
• General usability and functionality fixes as well as better spam handling (for foreign language and pornographic submissions, for instance).

The folks behind Tipd have told me that this is just the beginning, that traffic is growing quickly and that the potential is great. Just the other day I was talking to Mu, a social marketing expert, and he said that many a site has been built on the social media successes earned off social media sites like Digg (Engadget and ArtsTechnica to name a few).

If you’re a blogger, sign up and submit your best stories. Read other stories and network with other bloggers both in and outside of your particular niche. I know that one blogger, Mike of Four Pillars, has been using Tipd extensively to market his new site ABC’s of Investing, a blog focused on explaining investing basics to investing novices. The opportunity is there, the cost is nil, take advantage!

If you’re a financial news aficionado, sign up and use it to find the latest financial news based on what other people like you are interested in. Mainstream media has long enjoyed being the gatekeeper of what’s important and what’s not, it’ll be these citizen-driven social media sites that now control what is considered important. There are so many blogs and news sites out there that you can’t possible read them all, using social media is the most efficient way to expand your horizons without burning through all the time you have in a day.

If you have any feedback you want directly piped into the ears of the team, please feel free to use me as a conduit. They’re dedicated to producing the best and are always receptive to new ideas.

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