About Njuice
The internet is constantly being fed with interesting news, exciting videos and entertaining photos. Sooner or later you will read about some of these memes on blogs all over the world. What Njuice does is that it finds them before that happens.
A few years ago sites like digg, Reddit, and Delicious started to explore the interest people have in links. They came up with different kinds of formulas on how to detect when something actually is hot. Digg and Reddit by votes, Delicious by bookmark submissions. With the launch of sites like Twitter, news and links between people started to spread even faster. Something that you saw a day ago hit Digg front page today, they were getting behind.
This is where Njuice solves, but using a very complex parser that scans the social web live in real-time we can detected the memes long before someone else does. At the moment of writing this, we scan about 10 million links per day or over 100 every second. The services currently being scanned are Twitter, Google Buzz and MySpace, but more will be added in the future.
On top of just displaying hot news on the front page we also retrieve more details about each item. The parser finds images related to the story, we detect geo locations of where the links were being spread and also what people wrote when they shared the link.
"Ever since I launched GeekBoys.org back in 1999, one of the first RSS aggregators, I have been interested in finding the hottest links first. With the release of the streaming APIs I found a new way to find these links even faster, and the idea for Njuice was born.", says Andreas Thorstensson, founder.
Njuice is a privately funded startup located in Stockholm, Sweden.
Frequently asked questions
What is Njuice? It is a service that scans the social web live in real-time to find the hottest stories right now.
How does Njuice work? The engine counts how often a story is being mentioned during a certain period of time, if that count is high enough, the story becomes popular and hits the front page.
What do you mean by social web? What sites do you scan? Currently we scan Twitter, Buzz and MySpace in real-time. We are working on adding more services in the future.
Why does njuice find stories faster than others? Njuice doesn't require people to bookmark the story nor does it need people to vote on it, that in combination with our super fast real-time scanner makes us find the hottest stories first.
Can I use Njuice for something else?
Yes, you can for example filter out all hot stories from a certain site, or all hot stories about a certain keyword.
Yes, you can for example filter out all hot stories from a certain site, or all hot stories about a certain keyword.
What if someone uses a short url service like bit.ly?
The links to all stories are being expanded to the original URL, so it does not matter if people use bit.ly or ow.ly or something similar.
Why does some stories have thumbnails?
The engine uses a couple of smart methods to find related information to the story, like thumbnail, description and so on. But sometimes the story does not have an image related to it (or sometimes the script isn't smart enough, yet).
Why doesn't x, y, z work?
Because we are still in beta, but we appreciate all your feedback. Contact us via Facebook or Twitter.