At first glance, NewzNozzl looks like yet-another-digg-clone. NewzNozzl is different because you cannot submit stories directly to the site. Instead, they take the high rated stories from del.icio.us, digg, reddit, propeller, newsvine, and StumpleUpon and put them through another social filter of voting.

From the NewzNozzl About page, “Unlike most of the other social news sites, we don’t take story submissions - instead, we let the other social news sites discover (through their community) what’s interesting and important. And then we take the very best of those stories and let our users figure out which of those stories is really interesting and useful. This lets us show only the very best stories out there, quickly and from a really wide array of sources.”

Once a story hits NewzNozzl there are links attached to each entry that allow users to submit the story to the other social bookmarking sites. So, if a site is sourced from digg, a user can then submit it to StumbleUpon with a click.

When a story becomes popular enough a wiki page is created allowing users to expand upon the story. There is also a “tip” system. “Users can use cash to vote up a story. It’s a sliding scale - the more a user “Tips” a story, the less actual votes they will get out of it. Which is perfect, as users CAN slant a story they want, but the more they want to do so, the more pain it will cost, in the form of decreased cash.” “Cash” in this case refers to Nozzl tokens which are earned by being active on the site.

NewsNozzl’s mission… to become a hub of the best social bookmarking sites. Should be an interesting challenge.