After snooping around yourhub.com I came to one general conclusion. That this site, in my opinion, is very similar to the whole Myspace thing. You don't get it? Let me explain. When you first clicked onto the site there are places to share photos and stories, add new events to your personal calender, start/keep a blog, and a place for users to search for information. Myspace has all of this. The only real difference I think is that this site offers more "news." I use the word news loosely in this sense because it isn't news you would expect to find on CNN.com or MSNBC.com, or any of those newsy site. I think this is why I liked this site from the get go.
Anyway, this isn't a comparison of yourhub.com and myspace.com, it's a comparison to another visited, user driven site, blufftontoday.com. I found there to be many differences, and many similarities. One similarity is the way that both these sites make money. Both yourhub.com and blufftontoday.com make their money by advertisements, you know those flashy sidebars telling you to visit this site or that site or whatever site it may be. They're normally very annoying, but very helpful in the world of making money. However there is a difference in this. On blufftontoday.com people had the choice to also purchase ad space, another source of money flow for the site, whereas I couldn't find anything like that on yourhub.com.
Another one of those similarities is that both sites offered news, local news to their designated areas. I think this is a great feature, because lets say someone from the middle of nowhere USA wants to know whats going on in his/her town, they could simply find it by going to a site like yourhub.com, knowing that broadcast news will not show what they want to see. And a lot of that news on both of these sites are presented in a very blog like style, which I can honestly be turned off by because I'm not into the whole blogging thing (I know I've been doing this since Jan. and I'm still not used to it...I still seem to forget about this!). Yourhub.com allowed users to keep/post their own blogs just like blufftontoday.com does. The only difference here though is that blufftontoday has their blogs under three different categories: everyday blogs, expert blogs, and blogs written by blufftontoday.com staff members.
I think both sites were similar in the fact that they both offered the same amount of interactivity and use of multimedia. Which I think is a good thing since both of them are the way of the world and of the future it seems.
Another major difference is that blufftontoday.com focused on one specific location, whereas yourhub.com focused on several different locations from Florida to Tennessee to New York. I think this is both a good and a bad thing because yourhub.com does not offer every state in the US. What about all those other states are deprived services like this? Don't they deserve to blog?!
Overall, I liked yourhub.com. I thought it was more interesting than blufftontoday.com at least.
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