phillryu.com — One of the most successful applications of Digg-like functionality, the software update tracking website iusethis has taken off, and is now challenging the established MacUpdate and Versiontracker with its unique functionality and true differentiation. Creators Arne and Marcus talk about their plans for the website in this interview.
Jul 19, 2006 View in Crawl 4
computerdude33Jul 19, 2006
Like MacUpdate Desktop?Guess the dinosaurs just got a space station.
diamonddogJul 19, 2006
Wow dude, get your history right. You mean "as the Flood was to dinosaurs."And I think I still like version tracker better.
marcusrambergJul 19, 2006
What you are looking at is actually our 'hot' listing, which measures what apps had activitiy on the site in a last few days. From the hot list there is also a link to top apps, this page:<a class="user" href="http://osx.iusethis.com/top">http://osx.iusethis.com/top</a>
rythmickasonJul 19, 2006
The title isn't cool enough to merit a digg.....Although I am picturing a big tidal wave immediately followed by macbooks running for cover in a futile attempt to survive.
serpicolugnutJul 19, 2006
I stand corrected. UB denotions have been added recently, and there is a screenshot link on the apps page. Now, since the devs are reading this, here are a few other additions that would bring it closer to MU/VT parity -1.it would be nice to have a "compact mode" listing view for the home page, so you can view more of the apps at a time.2. It would be nice to have newly added items to your db (that aren't new releases) to not show up on the front page. Keep up the great work!
Closed AccountJul 19, 2006
@prockcoreActually there are darwinports and fink, but those only carry packages for open-source stuff.
purposelessJul 19, 2006
NO MORE BLOGSPAM!
d00dJul 20, 2006
Deserve to die? Geez man, dial it back a little. They're just websites.Version Tracker and MacUpdate have historically and presently offer a very good service to Mac users, namely keeping them up to date on the late software and software updates. In fact, they're so good at monitoring software updates, that it's to a fault (with some developers specifically asking Version Tracker not to list betas).iusethis may be good at rating software (or at least gauging usage), but it's power as a version tracking site is still unknown. With no notification mechanism, I don't think it'll actually touch VT or MU's bread and butter.I see iusethis and VT/MU as complementary instead of competition.