What it does

HowFlow is the place for finding tips and tricks for all sorts of Ruby on Rails/Ubuntu/Debian/programming geekery. If you’re a little rusty on your linux skills, HowFlow maybe useful to you. It’s a Berlin based site that was created with the Digg community voting and popularity style in mind. Users can submit their own tips, tricks, websites, and howtos or simply check out the front page to see what’s popular. The ranking systems allows the most popular articles to make front page, while the rest get upcoming page status. You can search for topics through the tag cloud, categories or search bar and feel free to join and paste your own comments. The site is currently in beta, so it’s a bit sparse on the content side, but looks promising once there’s more.

In their own words

“HowFlow is a community-based tricks and howtos popularity website. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.”

Why it might be a killer

HowFlow takes the popular Digg model and uses it for a howto website. This is a good concept. Ranking works. And with content like howtos, this may be the best way to find quality content.

Some questions

Will HowFlow offer more content besides tech/programming howtos? Is there a place for Digg style tips and tricks, especially with the advent of video websites like Videojug?

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