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First, some facts – we’ve seen the explosion of great content on the internet for the past couple of years and content creation and distribution has become easier with the web 2.0 phenomenon. But with information explosion comes the need for web 2.0 users to wade through great content and find the most relevant for us, and thus the need for a robust form of information filtering. Those are the things that new social news bookmarking site wants to do – to keep you up-to-date on the news that matters to you.

Socialmedian is a social news network that connects people with personalized news and information by enabling you to easily keep up-to-date on the news that matters to you an to people who share your interests. It’s all about getting personalized news that interests and matters you. With the vast amount of news information available for you to partake freely, socialmedian makes it a more personalized and filtered information delivery.

Sporting a Digg-like infrastructure and and a Twitter-like process, Socialmedian works in three ways. After creating your Socialmedian account, you can start exploring the Socialmedian network to find networks that appeal to you and attracts to your interest. Once you find interesting networks, you can freely join that network and start participating and contributing news items that you find on the internet. Through Socialmedian’s clipping functions, those news items gets into your profile and networks that you’ve join in. One a member of the network, you get exposed to thousands of news items, filtered and selected by other network members.

Socialmedian also lets you identify newsmakers and follow only their newsclippings. In a way you are just following people whom you trust and value for their inputs and share interests with.

And finally, Socialmedian also lets you create your own My News Feed on your Socialmedian home page. This feed gives you a running feed of what your network members are clipping. You can also have Socialmedian send you the most popular stories in your News Networks through email.

Socialmedian is a pretty big social media site with a pretty big purpose. One commendable feature of the site is the less noise and clutter on its main page plus the clean interface which would remind you of Digg and Delicious.

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