A Glimpse of LISZEN: Trends

Published on November 22, 2006 in LISZEN, LISZEN: Trends, Site News and Technology. 3 Comments

The “sneak peak” of LISZEN: Trends will be available at 5:00 p.m. [EST] today. In anticipation of this, here is a little bit of information on the new project.

If you are familiar with Digg then you are already well on your way to understanding what LISZEN: Trends is all about. LISZEN: Trends uses Pligg (a content management system based off of Digg), which allows users to add and vote on content.

Below is a brief rundown of the basics:

Submitting an article is as easy as posting the story link, and adding your own notes to the story. Below is a picture of Step 1:

After submission, the story stays in “Queued News” until enough users vote on the story as being noteworthy.

 

Once enough users vote, the story switches to “Published News” and appears on the home page of LISZEN: Trends.

If you are interested in seeing LISZEN: Trends first hand, be sure to come back at 5 p.m. [EST].  All that is required is a valid email that can be used to send access instruction.  Oh, and before anyone asks… RSS Feeds are included!

Even more exciting than LISZEN: Trends are the possibilities such a content management system has. In the next 2 months I would love to see a library use this technology to announce new books. Where the links would take the patron directly to the book in the library catalog and patrons could vote and/or comment on every title.

So, to all those innovative libraries: on your mark, get set, go…

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  • les
    November 22, 2006 at 6:23 am

    this looks cool………see you at 5pm (est)…….

  • Bill Drew
    January 31, 2007 at 9:28 pm

    I never received any instructions nor a URL. Is there also a javascript that I can add to my blog once this is off of the ground to allow people to “digg” it easier.

  • admin
    February 1, 2007 at 1:13 pm

    Bill:

    LISZEN: Trends is now in open beta. Access it at (http://www.liszen.com/trends). Currently, I have a plug-in for WordPress ONLY (not released) – which is installed on my site for testing. A javascript plug-in, however, is in the plans.

    Right now LISZEN: Trends is running on the .9 release of Pligg. I am waiting for version 1.0, before I really push the site. Pligg seems to have a 2-4 moth product cycle, with the last version released on December 17th, 2006. It would be safe to say that 1.0 will be available between mid-February and late April. Expect to see a script with the next release.

    Just want to make sure everything is stable before I get too crazy.

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