• SEOmoz, Thursday, July 3, 2008 2:34 PM

Rebecca Kelley reviews Boudica, a social news site for women. Currently in beta, Boudica.com is the brainchild of Lorna Harris (search guru Danny Sullivan's wife) and is aimed at creating a less sexist, more female-friendly news community than some of the currently available properties.

First the pros. Kelley says that despite being a women-focused site, Boudica isn't "stereotypically girly." So while some of the stories highlighted are about "Sex and the City" and summer diets, others are about technology, travel tips and other topics found on sites like Digg. Boudica also offers greater opportunities for interaction than some of the other social news sites, with blogging options and discussion boards.

Still Boudica is bogged down by some usability issues (the tag clouds didn't seem to be working well at the time of Kelley's review), and the navigation tabs at the top of the screen don't seem to be well-labeled. "At this point I can't tell the difference between the News, Arts, House, Time-Off, and Talk categories," Kelley says. "They all seem to list submissions. 'News' and 'Arts' could be different subject categories, but what's 'House'? Are they stories that deal with home matters? That are appealing to housewives? Is it a category entirely devoted to Hugh Laurie?"

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