Danny Sullivan & Co. have launched a new social news / discussion forum / community site for the search engine following crowd called Sphinn:

Sphinn is a social site for search and interactive marketers. It’s designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others.

I love the fact that users can add new “stories” in one of two ways: by submitting actual stories from other sites or by starting up a new, original discussion. So in a way… Sphinn is like a social news / forum hybrid that seems to integrate discussion topics right in with the submitted news stories. Nice!

A calendar of events and user list for networking purposes round out the site’s launch-day features.

Congrats on the launch, guys! Here’s to a great success…