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New York Times Gets Social, Wants You To Share

Now you know that social bookmarking services have stepped into the living room of old media indeed. The New York Times have added social bookmarking options to select pages on their website, not including subscription based ones of course.

They look like this (see for yourself):

New York Times wants you to share

A link, which opens a menu to submit to social bookmarking sites Digg, Facebook and Newsvine, as well as a permalink so that you easily can add the story to your service of choice.

TechCrunch has a more in-depth analysis of this move.

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4 people thinks stuff!

  1. They have got it all wrong! Why is Facebook there and Reddit and Netscape are missing?

    By Muhammad Saleem on December 11, 2006 11:10 am

  2. no joke. Who submits stuff to facebook?

    By David Krug on December 11, 2006 11:15 am

  3. According to the article, Facebook is there because they had previously establish contact discussion some feed arrangements. Sounds like a load of crap to me though, are there any hidden agendas here?

    Reddit and Netscape should be there of course.

    By Thord Daniel Hedengren on December 12, 2006 1:37 am

  4. Please look at my article posted here for a better analysis than the rubbish that Mike wrote up. Seriously, who buys what he says anymore anyway?

    http://themulife.com/?p=414

    Ultimately it seems that it is just a ploy to get more traffic and make more money.

    By muhammad saleem on December 13, 2006 5:15 pm

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