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- wilwheaton, on 10/12/2007, -6/+104I wouldn't call this a Digg killer, at all. This isn't a zero-sum situation where Digg must fail for Netscape News to succeed, or vice versa. If you're in ad sales, of it you have some personal vendetta against one company or the other, I guess you could view it that way, but from a user standpoint, what's the big deal?
Complaining about the interface is a little silly, too. Clearly, Digg is doing something right, if another site wants to use a similar design, because that makes it _easier_for_the_users_. How is that a bad thing?
Ultimately, the users will go where they're happiest, and where they feel their time is best invested. For some, that will be Digg; for others, it will be Netscape News. I suspect that, for most, it will be a combination of them both.
Disclosure: I write for CardSquad.com, which is a WIN blog. - appy77, on 10/12/2007, -17/+94I love DIGG , i won't switch.
- Sh0cker, on 10/12/2007, -9/+71Too many ad's on it, not that I'm surprised coming from AO-LOL
Long live the digg.
Get it to the front page and give it the digg effect! - BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+67It's up and running, by the way: http://www.beta.netscape.com/
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+55no nerd would want to visit netscape/aol for their news. digg and this beta site are in an entirely different category.
- lickmygiggle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44I wish I could report the Netscape website as lame...
- renegade334, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41Notice it says: The editors pick the "good" stories. BOO!
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
- Durinthal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38http://www.beta.netscape.com/story/2006/06/15/aol-copies-digg/
Wouldn't be hard to make a recursive link. - phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -7/+39@Sh0cker: Maybe they'll return fire and give us the AOL effect?
- AKBryant54, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29*starts a slow clap*
- danglerman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28shove it in they're faces
http://www.beta.netscape.com/story/2006/06/15/mp3-recording-trying-to-cancel-aol/ - navinjohnson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23"Digg Killer" seems a wee bit sensationalistic.
- stlcadet11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23But with Digg v3, you have the option to view just tech, just world, etc. So you can skip the who is Jen dating ***** and read about how much the RIAA blows and you can view the MOST AMAZING pics of a building ever!!! ;)
- joelito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20*Standing ovation*
- helix400, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Lets see, glancing through the front page...
Ann Coulter
Jennifer Aniston
Media op-ed's discussing themselves
Davis Hasselhoff
Paris Hilton
All that's missing is a good round of Bush bashing to complete the stereotype.
Sadly, Digg 3.0 could very well turn into this. - jdawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18We are not going to kill DIGG... this is not a DIGG-killer. We are going to do something much different: we are doing followup journalism on the stories that make it to the top of the list. Also, we are across all topics and for a general audience... DIGG is by tech folk and for tech folk.
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Here's a link to the actual site. What can I say? It just looks bad. If you're going to rip-off someone's interface, you should at least make it the same or better, not worse. Everyone is going to know you copied Digg anyway. Isn't it better to be known as a shameless copycat rather than a shameless and inept copycat?
http://www.beta.netscape.com/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21"Get it to the front page and give it the digg effect!"
lol, yeah lets give AOL the digg effect. - drawkbox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15looks like another digg copy with no added elements. Digg will inspire better sites soon but the fact that is is called a "digg" killer proves digg has made it. Copying is the ultimate form of flattery.
- boerseun, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Two things will make me switch.
Better content and easier interface.
For now, I enjoy the fact that there is no big corporate hand behind Digg. In the end that will probably keep me coming back to Digg, even if they have better content over at AOL... ugh... I feel dirty typing that three letter word. :-) - Kypt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12That is true, but that is what Digg will cover very soon. Digg will no longer be just a technology site, this site is trying to take the "casual" news reader away from digg before it even spits out those features.
- c0d3b0y, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11i hate the layout...too much crap in the way of the supposed 'content'
- elamr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I love digg, but I hope they can capture a good portion of the great unwashed before they get sucked into the AOL black hole.
Digg just got punked.. They did a stealth ninja move. Did not see that coming... I knew the big boys would copy, but not that soon. - jole, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I think an appropriate title would be more like:
Netscape releases crappy Digg Clone!
Great: Netscape took their old site and added "voting" and called it "beta", pretending to be chique. Does anybody know what Netscape even IS anymore? - carrotflower, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Exactly EbenieRosa, it seems to me that AOL's business model these days is all about locking in unsophisticated users to their email accounts / dial-up service via those ubiquitous free discs and Dell preinstalled software, and then preventing them from canceling their accounts. Although they've been sued and are paying penalties for this practice it doesn't seem like they've taken it to heart - just listen to the recording of the customer service call posted to digg this week of a young IT savvy guy trying to cancel an AOL account and then imagine if your grandma would be able to do it. They are appalling. F*ck AOL.
- Cerberus047, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9problems with the site...
1. takes stories from digg directly
2. front page story is how it copied digg
3. has story on front page bashing aol
4. puts frames on every site you visit from there
5. the visit the link site is too small... with digg i can click the big bold letters and go to the site, there it is hidden - EbenieRosa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I have a question that goes out to everyone: Honestly, what does AOL even do? everything AOL offers for money someone else offers for free, I can get AIM for free, or the equivalent, I don't need "AOL e-mail", I have Gmail, I simply don't comprehend the function of AOL, is it not a superfelous service? you can surf the internet without AOL, AOL as a service provider usually has No major advantages over local ISPs...I simply fail; to understand, if anyone could explain AOL's function to me ir would be awesome, but I always thought people were idiotic that use AOL, almost like some people don't understand that you can browse the internet and chat with people without AOL this is a serious question, I would love some well thought out answers, maybe even from people who see AOL as having a purpos.
- jdawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8that is funny that the top story is AOL copies digg, and the AOL cancel call... I guess we better get used to it! :-)
(Jason from Weblogs,Inc/AOL/Netscape) - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9[quote]Notice it says: The editors pick the "good" stories. BOO![/quote]
And that's why their cheap Digg knock-off is going to suck. That's why ALL corporate, politically-correct sites that censor (for the ad revenue ofcourse) suck.
You wondered what advantage Digg has? The advantage is not being full of *****! And no corporate site can ever compete with that. - steponsnyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If the result of the digg effect is a swell of traffic, wouldn't that just make it appear as if AOL has succeeded in "creating" a popular product?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7They've got a long way to go to get to level of digg. I didn't see any spelling or grammar mistakes, no exclamation points, and nary a single blog spam. And can you say duplicates? Nothin'.
- Dracos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Nope. AOL has spent every second since they acquired Netscape destroying it.
It's like the Netscape name and netscape.com are some kind of AOL corporate toilet. - hoofarted, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7What is all this "switch" *****? It is the internet and you can frequent many sites at the same time. Come on fanboys, get real. Do you only have one bookmark?
- danglerman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10the only things cool are:
Auto Queue Update
Friend Online/Offline
Auto Updating Pages - loudawg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11I like the idea of anchors following up on top stories - that's very cool. Can you imagine an anchor going out to interview the reporter who broke the Barry Bonds doping story? Awesome.
Though a lot of the diggerati will auto-diss this, you can't deny bringing social media to an audience of millions isn't cool. - SystmBetatester, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10The only digg killer is Digg Version 3
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is digg for soccer moms. David Hasselhoff? Please. No self-respecting tech geek would touch anything with AOL's name on it.
- MrLobster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I love how 3 of 5 of today's top stories on it are aol bashing with digg as the source:
MP3 Recording: Trying to cancel AOL Visit the Site (via digg.com) – Here's a recording I did of a conversation between myself and AOL while trying to cancel an account I no longer needed. It was old, and I hadn't used it in a REALLY long time, I just never got around to cancelling it. Enjoy!…
AOL Copies Digg Visit the Site (via digg.com) - Check out what this is based on - digg.com
Digg.com (via digg.com) – Get off this site and join get right in here for the real thing.… - longboarder543, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Just the fact that they put their so-called "anchor picks" above the user stories tells you that they don't get it and copied the form of digg but missed the spirit of the site entirely. No thanks.
- whisperedlie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6let's play a game called "Spot the Irony": http://www.awhisperedlie.com/images/aolirony.jpg
- cullenw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6After looking at the site for a good two minutes I quickly realized my eyes were bleeding and closed it.
- aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There's nothing to worry about here. Digg is made up of a large group of people who share very similar interests, ideas, & the like.
Netscape is for a broad general audience & half of the comments & posts on Netscape articles would probably be modded down -20 here. It's an entirely different site, just a borrowed concept.
I'll stick to this better, smarter community. I feel like I am more of a part of something here. - shrdlu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I don't get it. How is this extraordinarily moronic piece of excrement a digg killer? It's like the difference between The Daily Show and Extra (or whatever piece of yuck is currently polluting the airwaves). Jon rocks; Hollywood gossip is stupid. The session cookies alone are enough to make me never want to go back. I saw absolutely nothing there that was interesting. Nothing.
Guess I'm just not cut out to be an AOLuser. - elamr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Holy *****.. it Will Wheaton.
- matts0344, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Exactly, thats one reason I like Digg. Its a place where most of that crap is not there because no one really cares about that stuff (because usually there are more important things to discuss) and thats how I like it.
- pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5long ago maybe they had a purpose...
- FreydNot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4*shouts "Ya!*
- rileyjt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The first story I see on the site is named "AOL copies Digg" with a picture of Kevin beside it :) The number of web sites that are copying desgin ideas from Digg is simply amazing and is a huge tribute to the site. Suffice to say, nothing is going to be "killing" Digg any time soon. Looking forward to v3 - keep up the good work guys!
- Cronium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"According to statistics provided by AOL, Netscape serves a whopping 811 million monthly page views - far more than Digg today."
Did this guy even do any fact-checking?
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?compare_sites=netscape.com&range=6m&size=medium&y=r&url=digg.com -
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