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- kcb2, on 05/15/2008, -1/+196There goes the unbiased reviews....
oh wait.... - drakefantastic, on 05/15/2008, -8/+190And thus begins their slide into irrelevancy.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+122It isn't BREAKING if it has been covered by slower news sources already.
- nedzalife, on 05/15/2008, -2/+74being bought out by a big corporation = loss of content control. This is why I hope Digg honestly never sells. You would never know what type of algorythm would be put in place at that point, promoting stories that are pushed by the big wigs, not the users...
- JerMe, on 05/15/2008, -1/+66Guess news.com was worth it to them.
- lzcracker, on 05/15/2008, -15/+69And an internet legend dies.
- joerod, on 05/15/2008, -1/+38they should bring back a show like the screen savers from the tech tv days.
- Spinfusor, on 05/15/2008, -2/+38It was dead a long time ago.
- funkyjunk3, on 05/15/2008, -6/+42I really hope this isn't like how TechTV went down hill after G4 bought them.
- werkkrew, on 05/15/2008, -3/+26http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_news
Who do you think you are Tom Brokaw?
BREAKING NEWS OMFG!!!!! - thinman1189, on 05/15/2008, -3/+26What's G4?
Exactly. - Spinfusor, on 05/15/2008, -0/+18CNET is already at the bottom of the hill.
- KevInTx, on 05/15/2008, -0/+17I know exactly how you feel. I was thinking the same thing, along the lines of TechTV + G4 = G4 and the death of TechTV.
- Neiby, on 05/15/2008, -0/+17Was Plaxo ever relevant?
- lex0nyc, on 05/15/2008, -0/+16That's a good point. That domain is probably worth $100 million or more alone.
- IEatHamburgers, on 05/15/2008, -0/+15They sure do, and then they started the free streaming everyone's been exited about. And yet all the comments here talk about how CBS is going to kill them...
- Bakedwafer, on 05/15/2008, -4/+17I was long CNET @ 7.38, good stuff. Sold today @ 11.40. Thanks CBS, your news is worth zip, but you buyout decisions are impeccable.
- dn11, on 05/15/2008, -1/+14when was the last time cnet was truly relevant? to me they've felt like a throwback to web 1.0 for a while now. there are definitely good elements to cnet, but on the whole it has felt like a missed opportunity
- kton25, on 05/15/2008, -1/+14CBS, please don't biff Buzz Out Loud!
- ePuck, on 05/15/2008, -1/+13Cnet used to be good! Whats going to happen to download.com?
- Jaablaze, on 05/15/2008, -0/+11bleh, it was the death of G4 as well. They should just call it Spike Jr now.
- jrizzo, on 05/15/2008, -0/+12CNET sucked at everything besides free downloads. And Softpedia is like spam.com, so we are without alternatives at the moment.
- AtomicTheory, on 05/15/2008, -0/+10Furthermore, if I see this digg article next month, is it still "Breaking" ? The title still says so.
Buried for "Breaking" - AzureRise, on 05/15/2008, -0/+10Why? Will they change the definitions to subliminally subvert your mind?
- AzureRise, on 05/15/2008, -3/+12Woosh.
- arizonagroove, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8Breaking: What should be done to the fingers of people who put Breaking: at the start of title.
- celkin, on 05/15/2008, -0/+9Doesn't CBS also own last.fm?
- fuhlavaflave, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7The beautiful thing is that, should Digg ever decide to sell out, something could easily come along to take its place.
Digg's commodity is news separated from corporate control and given over to the users (or at least that's what it's purported to offer). Once a corporation buys it out and makes visible changes, hopefully all of Digg's users will walk away and patronize another site like it. Corporations don't understand this.
Sites like Hulu.com will ultimately fail because they try to take old world models and fit them to the internet. We all know better, because we've already experienced what (relatively) unbiased, free content tastes like. - slochewie, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7Great, no more helpful tech videos, but lots of CSI
- funkyjunk3, on 05/15/2008, -2/+9Woosh? I know thinman was being sarcastic.
I posted that to help people who didn't know about TechTV understand what happened. Yes, even the great TechTV tragedy may go under the radar for some people here.
Now please, don't dig me down for at least attempting to help keep the ghost alive of TechTV. If you wish to dig me down, digg me down for citing Wikipedia or some other thing like that. But please don't digg me down for some reason about not catching a sarcastic joke, because I did. - FK0123, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8Just what we need, more conglomeration of big media.
- kweee, on 05/15/2008, -1/+8Less CNET buying, more Jericho renewing.
- saikyan, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6I wrote CNET off a long time ago... but crap, CBS thinks they're worth 1.8 BILLION dollars! One mans trash is anothers treasure?
- marm0lade, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6BREAKING: a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement among African American and Puerto Rican youths in the South Bronx of New York City during the early 1970s. It is normally danced to pop, funk or hip hop music, often remixed to prolong the breaks, and is a well-known hip hop dance style. A breakdancer, breaker, b-boy or b-girl refers to a person who practices breakdancing.
from wikipedia. - eighties, on 05/15/2008, -5/+12The current crazy web purchasing includes CBS buying Cnet, Comcast buying Plaxo, and Ask.com buying Dictionary.com.
Twitter is always faster than any news site for stuff like this. - Protoss, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6Yeah it seems like CBS knows what they are doing, at least with Last.fm.
- ell0bo, on 05/15/2008, -1/+7I really wish Breaking would get sanitized from titles after like 2 hours, because this isn't really BREAKING anymore.
- nephilimx, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5I loved seeing pointess MS bashing storys with a "sun microsystems" ads next to it
- aserer511, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5Great- now my electronics reviews are gonna read like a ***** news piece...
- SoundJudgment, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7Why is this surprising? $1.8 Billion is a bargain for anyone wishing to acquire the Domain-names www.news.com and www.download.com
- Mjeacoma, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5But high budget irrelevancy! I give it 6 months before CBS dissolves them
- DigitalKNK, on 05/15/2008, -1/+8what about snapfiles.com ? That's a pretty good site not as huge as downloads.com but hey it works.
- MScrip, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5aac.com has better quality with smaller file sizes.
- rcarroll215, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6Think about it, at least it's not FOX.
- Sushubh, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6what about com.com? mp3.com?
- pixelate, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5and radio.com (cbs already owns last.fm), computers.com, search.com, help.com, chat.com, kids.com...
I wonder if Metacritic will stay reliable. They don't reveal how they weigh scores from different reviewers, so there's room for tomfoolery. - psevium, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5"search engine" noun;
A place to search for information on the internet.
*Examples*
"My, that Ask.com is a really good search engine, much better than that Google.com!" - Condemned, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6and tv.com
- rebotfc, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5Er how naive are you?
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