With so many open source variations of social media sites, there are new ones launched every day. Most cater to a very small niche and rarely make it to 100 registered users.
Tip’d is the exception. After its official launch last week, it has already made some amazing strides as of October 20, 2008:
- 750+ registered users
- 1000+ articles submitted
- Approaching 10,000 Tips received
- 600+ comments made
The real splash, though, is in the quality of users. Social media powerhouses like zaibatsu, tamar, jaybol, Emit, nowsourcing, weblaunches, webaddict, 1only, coloneltribune, ritubpant, TunisianGuy, and adrian67 have been active on the site. Many of them came because of the endorsement of another social media powerhouse, msaleem. (more…)