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- dwoloz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39I think its a bit naive to believe CNET did this because they want to "ebrace social bookmarking"
Flat out, they did it for the exposure and in turn the additional ad revenue
Digg has become a phenomenal tool for generating hits to whatever link you may have - Jayeveryday, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34Digg seems to be taking over the web
- oGMo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Actually he has a point, this sortof adds a lot of artificial popularity to the story, doesn't it?
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Hmm, I thought Google did that? Or was that yesterday?
- kodek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11No. We need an "Ok, this is Lame" button :)
- rizzo011, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Flat out, they did it for the exposure and in turn the additional ad revenue"
AMEN. And I predict that many, many more sites will begin to copy this, it seems that CNet was the first of this size to start it.
More pageviews=more$$ - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I imagine every blog and news site looking for hits on the web will do things like this soon. Eventually the ratio of submitted stories to ones that actually get to the front page will be immense. The signal-to-noise ratio in the "upcoming" section is pretty low already (mostly noise). I imagine that eventually there will be so much crap in there that Digg 4.0 is going to have to come up with a better way to weed through it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Where is the "this CNET story sucks" button at the bottom of their news stories? I sure would love that functionality on the Cnetnews.com web site.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6True, I just hate it when people call their link "Bookmark on Digg." Talk about a miscommunication of purpose.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If you noticed, the Digg This link they supply leads directly to the submission page of Digg. So, whoever clicked on that link would still have to go through the effort of typing out a headline, a summary, and submitting it here where the rest of the Digg community would decide whether to put it on the front page or not.
This is quite different from numerous other sites I've seen recently, whose "Digg This" link directly adds a vote to a story that the site's editors have already submitted here.
What CNet is doing isn't bad at all. It's good marketting for them, but it's not going to get Cnet article submissions to Digg's front page any faster. - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"The majority of Digg users do not want Cnetnews.com stories on this website."
In that case, we shouldn't be concerned about this feature because they won't be covered here then. - morphie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That's why digg is so great. If people don't like CNet stories, they won't get it to the frontpage. :)
- tkdan235, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Where is the "scape this" button?
- mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7You have CNet confused with MacRumors, Wired, Ars Technica, and Engadget
- BillyEveryteen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Mark this lame, we need less CNet stories on Digg, less I say!
- terminalpariah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Strictly speaking, any action that a corporation like CNET undertakes must be driven by profit. Doing otherwise would be irresponsible to its shareholders.
This particular cash-grab is at least non-evil and benefits the Digg community as much as it does CNET (or perhaps more). - uahgekido, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4felchdonkey: You are exactly right. Kevin actually mentioned this exact problem when he was discussing the amount of extra traffic digg is going to receive. I don't remember if it was on TWiT that I heard it or not.
- lorensingley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I feel the phrase "Can you dig it?" coming back with a vengeance...
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6sawweett.
- mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Or, in a truly Warholian Digg site, everyone will have a front page article once.
Who cares about front page? In the future, everyone will get dugg to the front page. - TheAttacks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And you probably haven't been paying attention to submissions.
- jk47h3, on 10/12/2007, -24/+27i love the idea of this but it just seems too easy and people are going to be doing this to every single story, just imagine the submit whores and duplicates. I LOVE THAT DIGG IS BEING RECOGNIZED EVERYWHERE THOUGH!!!
- Sagarian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3>> it seems that CNet was the first of this size to start it.
yes, CNet was doing this about 8 years ago... they've been syndicating headlines with links to their site for traffic generation forever. the only thing new here is that digg has an API/url for syndicating to them (digg this) and it's integrated straight into the CNet site. - radu79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Weren't like half the stories on Digg from news.com.com anyway? :)
- Wenz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I can digg it digg it digg it digg it, he can digg it digg it digg it digg it, she can digg it digg it digg it digg it....ohhhhh let's digg it, can you digg it baby?!?
- synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was more impressed to see the same thing on a BBC article last month
- real, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Heres to the Digg team "Cheers"
- ArcaneDevice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2everybody wants traffic ... any way they can get it.
- V1ncent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's good to see digg getting such recognition. Kudos to everyone!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Amen!
- Swampthing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The website 2old2play does the same thing. They post everything they write here as though it's news and even send people back to digg on their site just to generate more artificial hits. Hell, in their forums they talk about how they unsubscribe and resubscribe their own podcast just to generate a higher tally on the iTunes web page.
- dimmerswitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Simply a smart move. They've been around long enough to know how to play the game well.
- heresy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder how much CNET has been paying Digg recently or vice versa. Every CNET article about Digg praises it and CNET articles have been on the front page an awful lot. It has become more apparent with the recent CNET Digg 3.0 article. They were too busy advertising digg in the article to actually point out the flaws and problems with many of the changes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another attempt at getting trafffic. And of course traffic= $$$. Ohwell, thats great for CNet.
- Rotkiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1good for digg.com! (applause)
- johndi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's distasteful, but probably won't matter much. Most CNet articles were already being submitted to Digg.
- jakatak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this looks like it can get way out of hand. pretty soon blogs will put digg buttons on their diary entries. I sure hope this venue doesn't get poisoned. Damn! I can hear Disney making an offer to buy this site as I type this.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1At first it sounded like they were ripping off DIGG and others...
nope they got submission buttons for their stories to the popular social sites. - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That would indeed be a nice feature on Google News. Would be an interesting chain of news too, with Google News acting as a man in the middle that ties Digg to their auto-covered news stories.
- bwmiller72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In the meantime, we can all do our part to only submit and digg worthwhile things. That's built into this engine already. I don't digg things that haven't gotten promoted yet, unless I really think it's noteworthy. I try to see if there is a dupe. I also immediately sort the recently submitted artciles by most diggs, hopeing other users have followed a policy like this before me, to sort the wheat from the chaff.
- aidanm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sometimes... when I am on other forums reading (e.g. newsarama.com) and read someone's comment that I don't like - I go to give them the thumbs down... but then I realise there is no button there. I hope digg ultimately takes over EVERY SINGLE FORUM.... {insert evil laugh}
Or, alternatively, that a similar set up is created for every forum on the net. - kodek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Giggity giggity goo
- lemieuxster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yep, there it is. To the right of the sneezing head.
- PSPon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They should have one 'super' button, where it un-collapses all those buttons. I don't want to see them, even though it's good to see Digg getting some recognition. =)
- sed8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is good to see CNET embracing social bookmarking, but I have to agree, when you see how much traffic a site gets after being 'dugg', who wouldn't be interested in increasing their profit margin from it.
I am concerned Digg's popularity will ultimately be it's undo-ing, as I already see many 'spam', 'offers' and duplicate stories being posted when sifting through real-time and popular 'upcoming' stories. *sigh* - Books, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow that is pretty awesome. I think it's safe to say Digg is very very successful now.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The very fact that you had a home page in elementary school makes me feel old. Our school didn't get its first Apple ][ until I was in junior high.
- Hergio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bad idea! Talk about causing tons of duplicate stories to appear on digg now. I clicked on one of the links and there were already 3 duplicates...stupid stupid stupid!
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mcbesq - You'll probably see Engadget have a button soon that says "Netscape This"
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