About Kify Health World

What is Kify Health World?

Kify Health World is a user powered health news portal. On this social content voting site, all news is submitted by its users. Any members can submit health related content to Kify Health World, and this will enable the content to be viewed by all. The content will be promoted or buried depending on how much it is liked by the community. The more votes the submission gets, the more popular it is. With enough votes, the piece of news will be showcased on the Front page of Kify Health World. It's a place where people submit, discuss, comment, share, vote and promote health stories and websites.

Kify Health World concept is inspired from Digg, a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. Kify Health World builds on this concept by adding extra features and functionality for the specific needs of the health community.

Kify Health World is a site where you can share whatever you find interesting on the web with people who value your opinion (whether you know who they are or not), and where you can also find what's interesting from people whose opinion are important to you - whether they know who you are or not.

Everything on Kify Health World is submitted by Kify Health World users, and after they submit a story, website, etc. other people will read it and give it a thumb up or down. If that story receives enough positive votes, it is promoted to the Featured page. But...!

While there are other sites offering similar services, in Kify Health World each user has their own "Featured" page, and the stories promoted to a user's front page are determined only by the votes of the people this user has previously selected - these are what we call, the user's sources.

Just a friends-driven social content website?

No. Friends are friends - there's mutual consent and it's a reciprocal relationship. In Kify Health World, when you select who your sources are, you don't need consent from them, and you don't become a sources for them. It is not a reciprocal relationship.

Why sources, why not friends?

Because that's really how the world is when it comes to trusting other people's opinions.

Say there's a guy named Joe Whittman. Say I like how this guy thinks and I notice he has a Kify Health World account. I would add him as one of my sources right away! I want his opinion count when my "front page" is being shaped up.

But hey, perhaps Joe doesn't even know who I am. Or perhaps he knows me but doesn't care what I think. Should he be forced to add me as one of his "friends" simply because I trust his opinion?

What are the Kify Health World values?

Four words:

• Share - Submit web pages and stories you find interesting.

• Rank - Vote "up" what you like, or vote "down" what you don't.

• Control - Select only people whose opinion you trust, so you can...

• Discover - ...be informed of web pages that get a better ranking by those people you've selected.

Who's behind Kify Health World?

This website is maintained by Dr. Subrahmanyam Karuturi. You can know more about him at http://www.karuturi.org