Sphinn - Search & Internet Marketing Professional Website
Update (8/13/07): I Sphunn my first story today on Squidoo. We’ll see what happens. See my Squidoo Sphinn.
I joined Sphinn today and found a few hours of my time were soon gone. It is fascinating reading, especially so because I consider this very informative site built by the ideas and comments of my peers. If you are interested in Internet marketing, and I assume you are if you are reading my SEO blog, then I would say it is worth 30 minutes to read some posts and see what you think. The best and the brightest are there, of course you will also find too many people who are ignorant and/or just taking up valuable bandwidth. For now though, it looks like a promising site. Think of it as Digg for Search Marketers.
Here is the origin of the domain name:
Why Sphinn? We liked the idea of a place where marketers could put their own “spin” on news by commenting on stories or having discussions. But spin.com was taken, as was spinn.com and sphinnn.com was a N too far, we felt. So we went with sphinn.com, pronouncing it “sp-hinn.”
Sphinn away!
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5 Responses to “Sphinn - Search & Internet Marketing Professional Website”
By Darren McLaughlin on Aug 9, 2007 | Reply
I still think it’s Sfin like Sphynx!
By Kyle on Aug 9, 2007 | Reply
Wow, that is a sweet site. It looks like a social bookmarking mixture of a voting site with an awesome layout. I just wasted about an hour their too. Thanks for the cool link, neat find!
By K Greenhaw on Aug 9, 2007 | Reply
I think this Sphinn is supposed to be the new youtube equivalent for an older crowd of news aficionados less interested in hype and crude humor and more interested in blogging and humorous or interesting news. It was fun to find out via Sphinn that Google’s blog search website temporarily deleted its own site from its blogosphere mistaking it for spam…funny stories…
By Chris Alexander on Aug 10, 2007 | Reply
Great find Shell, but you need to read between the lines of how they chose the domain name…
Why Sphinn? We liked the idea of a place where marketers could put their own “spin†on news by commenting on stories or having discussions. But spin.com was taken, as was spinn.com and sphinnn.com was a N too far, we felt. And since we made a rip-off digg site, of course we had to copy the double letter thing too, come on. So we went with sphinn.com, pronouncing it “sp-hinn.â€Â
By Shell Harris on Aug 19, 2007 | Reply
Good point, Chris. But I guess if you are going to rip somebody off, it should be the best.