http://mostrecent.net/<p>My idea: to build a community of topical-hand-edited news pages. I want to start in the tech community working to recruit editors/experts to build pages covering programming languages and popular technologies. Think of it as an alternative to blogs, tweets, and social link sites. Here an expert can build out a page with the most useful links and highlight news items that he/she knows are important to the community. Everything is tabulated into one easy to scan page. This is all managed via a drop and drop interface.<p>The short intro video should give more context about how the site works:<p>http://mostrecent.net/help/introclip/<p>I'm just getting out of my "soft launch" phase and the JavaScript page I've built has already started making the rounds and gaining regular readers. It is a good example of what I'm going for:<p>http://mostrecent.net/javascript/<p>We are still in beta and more features are coming. My eventual business plan is to place ads on the pages with an aggressive editor rev share program. There are a number of pages at various levels of development on the site, but I know for a fact we still need pages covering ruby, java, flash, perl, lisp, tech startups, apple, c# and much more (in case anyone is interested).<p>Thanks for your time and attention! I look forward to your feedback.
First of all, I would recommend you spend a bit of time on design. The site is blinding.
Maybe tone down your link colors a bit, or don't make them so huge.<p>I can't say I really understand the problem you are trying to solve. Why would I use mostrecent rather than delicious or squidoo or something else similar.
It seems there is a ton of manual tasks required, I manually create links, manually drag them around, etc.<p>Your intro clip shows functionality (which is why it is under help), but you really need to explain why I would create these links. Why am I an editor, why I am doing this.<p>Tungle had a great demo (not sure if it is still around), and there was a group that is doing online merging of office and google docs, they also had a great demo video.<p>Look around and see what you can come up with.<p>This might be a great idea (it is a great domain name), but you haven't spelled out clearly enough what I would use it for/why it needs to exist.