What is Mixx Wire?
Mixx Wire is an open source web application that combines news aggregation, social networking, and bookmarking features into one platform. It was launched in 2008 as an open source alternative to sites like Digg and Reddit.
Some key features of Mixx Wire include:
- Ability to submit links to news stories, blog posts, videos, etc. These submissions can be voted up or down by the community.
- User profiles, friending, and following capabilities allow members to connect.
- Comments section on each link submission enables discussions about the content.
- Topic-based discovery helps users find stories related to topics they're interested in.
- Saving links to bookmarks makes it easy to access stories later.
- Tagging system categorizes stories for better searchability.
- Recommended content section surfaces popular and relevant submissions.
The platform is built using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) open source technologies. Customizations and mods are possible given its open source license. Overall, Mixx Wire focuses more on social discussion of news links compared to aggregators like Digg.
Youtube Music, Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, Last.fm, TuneIn Radio, Pandora, TIDAL, Jango, iHeart, Freemake Music Box, Libre.fm are some alternatives to Mixx Wire.