How Siliconverge Works?
Siliconverge is democratizing the information related to semiconductor industry on the web. As a user, you participate in determining all latest & greatest content by sharing and discussing the news from different sources that appeal to you.
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Share.
Submit. Find a news article, research paper, or blog post online and submit it to Siliconverge.com. Your submission will immediately appear in “Upcoming News,” where other members can find it and, if they like it, they will vote for it.
Become popular. Once a submission has earned a critical mass of Votes, it becomes “popular” and jumps to the homepage in its category. If it becomes one of the most popular, it qualifies as a “Top Today”. If a submission doesn't receive enough Votes within a certain time period, it eventually falls out of the “Upcoming News” section.
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Discover.
Learn new stuff. Visit the “Upcoming News” section to discover recently added news. And you can subscribe to RSS feeds of of popular/upcoming sections to stay up to date with latest news submissions.
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Participate.
Vote. Participate in the collaborative editorial process by Voting the stuff that you like best. As you vote, you contribute to the popularity of any given item. You also build a history of voting that you or your friends can view.
Bury. If you find stories with bad links, off-topic content, or duplicate entries, click “Bury.” That’s how we get the spam out of the system and let the good stuff rise to the top.
The system only works when users actively participate on a large scale, so make sure to do your part and Vote and Bury content that matters to you!
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Socialize.
Build a network. Invite your friends or find them on Siliconverge and add them to your friends list. Then your friends can track what you’re voting and you can see what they vote as well, enabling you to collectively find news together.
Email. Send your friends the stories that you submit and find best on Siliconverge.com.
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Discuss.
Comment. Share your opinions by commenting on stories as well as Voting and Burying comments by other users.
How To Submit A New Story Easily?
Not finding comfortable enough to copy a web page URL and paste it on Siliconverge.com? No problem!
You can easily submit stories to Siliconverge while visiting other website using some browser based tools. Just bookmark the link below in your favorite browser. After that, the only thing you have to do to start submitting a story is to click the bookmarklet in your browser while you are visiting the website that you want to submit the URL.
- Internet Explorer: Rightclick the link below, choose "Add to favorites."
- Firefox: Drag the link below to your Bookmarks Toolbar.
- Opera: Rightclick the link below, and choose "Bookmark Link".
The Bookmarklet: Submit to Siliconverge!
Sometimes using this bookmarklet doesn't help to populate the required data like 'news title', or 'trackback URL' properly. This is because, the website URL you are trying to submit doesn't have that data easily accessible. In such cases, you may have to edit the title manually on your own.
