Nincha Lets You Share What Others Won't

Written by Dana Oshiro / November 24, 2009 2:12 PM / 14 Comments

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Get your mind out of the gutter. This isn't about distributing your crude weekend photography, it's about being able to upload content outside the parameters of basic community categories. While we all know that YouTube is for video, Flickr is for photography and LinkedIn is for career-related content, it's hard to tell where we should be sharing our important but uncategorizable content. Nincha is a stealthy little community that just may infiltrate the community sharing space.

Like many other social sites, Nincha lets you upload photos, create polls, share bookmarks and review products. However, some additional types of content include job and classified listings, code snippets, recipes, events and business cards. Rather than offering a basic light blogging tool, users are encouraged to comment on each others' submissions and favorite the community's best content. From here you can follow others and share your uploads via email, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg and text message. While it's too early to say which types of content will dictate the tone of this community, its obvious there are advantages to this type of social sharing.

Rather then just adding your code to GitHub or your own website, you can share snippets of code to your favorite social profiles with a better chance of recruiting new programmers and contributors. Additionally, the text message feature means that you can avoid sometimes finicky services like the Bump iPhone app and send your business card directly to an iPhone users' contact book. And finally, if you know your pecan pie recipe is going to be a Thanksgiving hit, you might as well tweet it out now and save yourself the trouble of forwarding it to others. Nincha is offering us the chance to share the content and links we need without confining us to specific file formats. The first 1000 lucky ReadWriteWeb readers can try the service at http://nincha.com/signup/readwriteweb_8xqg1b.

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Posted by: seslichat | November 24, 2009 2:29 PM

Just a note to ReadWrteWeb readers: we've setup a special link that will let the first 1,000 of you try it out. Go ahead and sign up at: http://nincha.com/signup/readwriteweb_8xqg1b.

Thanks!

Posted by: Sid Yadav | November 24, 2009 2:35 PM

Thanks for the invitation link. I am really liking it so far. It seems to be a great place to store my twitter links...

Posted by: Tyson | November 24, 2009 4:08 PM

no question about how good and easy to use this website is.
keep it up!
AA

Posted by: A.A. | November 24, 2009 4:14 PM

thank you

Posted by: Sesli Sohbet | November 24, 2009 4:43 PM

Thank you.

Posted by: Vinoth | November 24, 2009 8:10 PM

The use of the word "stuff" as opposed to "content" on the About page is quite refreshing.

Posted by: plankhead.com | November 24, 2009 10:35 PM

@everyone Thanks for trying it out! Please send us your feedback and carry on testing the site.

@plankhead Hah! Touche.

Posted by: Sid Yadav | November 24, 2009 10:56 PM

Hi,
I really appreciated your INFO and link! Excellent post! you get right to the point. Thanks for posting...

Posted by: spiele | November 25, 2009 4:01 AM

Sounds like a handy litttle site. If there are any invites left I'd like to try it out. :)

Posted by: Dean Saliba | November 25, 2009 6:05 AM

I like that they are being open to what the "stuff" might be. I think it's fair to say the trend is for more and more href="http://shareable.net">sharing, both digital and non-digital "stuff". Leaving an open platform might yield some interesting results as the community looks for new ways to share "stuff".

Posted by: David | November 25, 2009 8:56 AM

I like that they are being open to what the "stuff" might be. I think it's fair to say the trend is for more and more sharing, both digital and non-digital "stuff". Leaving an open platform might yield some interesting results as the community looks for new ways to share "stuff".

Posted by: David | November 25, 2009 8:58 AM

Give me a what I want then that will be the thing that will allow me to do what i really need to do, if its out there I will use it..

Posted by: randy bragg | November 26, 2009 2:08 PM

What does one find positive that is postitive feedback from a site as given?
I see more deception and wrongful usage unless used in proper context ( goverment, agenceys, police,ext.) and dont have an account yet

Posted by: Ryan | December 5, 2009 6:55 AM