akligman

Thanks that's really cool. We're checking it out now.

Not really sure actually. We haven't had time to look into it yet. Just frustrating.

Thx, We actually found it on another site (can't remember which one - too many bookmarks!), but it was a tutorial slider. We just thought the idea was cool and recoded it from scratch with jquery. Stupid thing won't work on an iPad yet...

We are similar, true, but this is the central theme of IW - our sole focus. On wordpress it's kind of up to you to promote it. We're trying to improve what's just a 'feature' on many other sites.

We filled in a few for demo purposes.. will be deleted :)

We actually met a VC at SXSW this year who asked the same thing. We have a ranking algo - rying to avoid spam the same way Reddit does by only getting the best content promoted. We're thinking of building tools so users accounts time out or a captcha generates if they post too much.

There aren't really obstacles, you're right. I know there are sites out there, but I guess I'm just lazy to find them. By centralizing some of the content, it may be easier to find.

I think IW is also geared more towards the novice blogger, who simply has a blogger or wordpress site with little traffic. By syncing it to IW, it should generate more exposure.

We've definitely studied AC. In our case, we're not telling anyone what to write about or incentivizing them by paying them (i.e., trying not to be a content farm here).

Users simply write about their interests like on any blog. The idea is to aggregate and promote the best content. We'll direct traffic back to their site via URLs on their profile, customization, etc

So the three of us are trying to quit our finance jobs and get into startups. Man.. that would be nice...

None of us are bloggers, so we wanted to build something where we could post ad hoc content without having to create/build/maintain a blog. FB is not really meant for article-length content.

InsideWord is kind of a mix between citizen journalism sites and, I guess, blogging platforms - at least, that’s what we think it is. We could definitely use some feedback and advice.