Today I started playing around with Newsvine (private beta), my initial impressions are as follows:
1) The UI is really well done.
2) Their search scheme wherein you can search tags or full text is simple, elegant and effective.
3) It’s not clear to me if the incentives to publish are quite right. They pay members to publish, which is cool however I’m wondering how they will control the spam issue.
4) They give members an incentive to acquire further members, they pay a percentage of the referred member’s vig to the acquiring member. This makes good sense.
More to come. Stay tuned.









