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- kevinrose, on 10/12/2007, -4/+73I will ask Jason if this is true - he dugg the story (digg username: jdawg)
- coxon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18I think AOL is too big and unfocused to pull off something as good as Digg. Digg only does one thing and does it well. It's the key to success of digg is being small and focused. There are already lots of copycats and I try everyone that I find but they don't compare to digg.
I sound like a KevinRose fanboy! - jimphelps, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17Why is this news? Someone's blog about a 'rumor'? LOL.
- drawkbox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10AOL users dugg posts:
+520 HOWTO: Open Windows Explorer
+570 Hack your 12:00 flashing VCR to the correct time
+890 All about the windows key and your start menu
+230 Common online acronyms LOL = Laugh out Loud, More... - jeff1943, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The fact that popups come out when you visit netscape.com just annoys me.
- ttkgeek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I agree, nothing will match the simplicity and design of digg. It all comes down to usability and the interface.
- velox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The ideas from Digg WILL be copied. There's no way to stop that. Every good site idea has been copied many times over. Look at how many search engines, auction sites, DHTML/AJAX homepages, web portals, and price-watching websites there are. If it's a good idea, it WILL be copied. There's no way to stop that. The only thing Digg.com can do about this is stay ahead of the curve. As long as they begin implementing new improvements like the new comment system on a regular basis, I believe they won't have a problem keeping their position in the market.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Can't wait to hear back...but why would he digg it if it weren't true?
- drawkbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Well as with anything new. it will be copycatted which is truly inspiration more than anything. Digg should be proud of all the copycats. Actually, digg only took the comments and ratings section and combined it with slashdot.org to make that the feature of the site, rather than the items at the bottom far removed. Its just logical progression. Human innovation is open source. [reply]
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The fact that popups come out when you visit netscape.com just STOPS me. :)
I'm not going to such places, at least not when there are good alternatives. Period. :)
And it's not just about the practice, but the idea too, so just because such ads can be blocked, I'm not going to a site with the pilosophy of annoying users to gain a revenue boost. The best revenue boosts come from non-overzealous advertising, because that's when users stay, and that's at least the message I'm trying to tell. - statmobile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Am I the only one that thinks it is a bit hypocritical to get upset over this? The digg model is not so different from that of slashdot. Let the best site win!
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I submitted the story using the wording from the article, but I wouldn't necessarily agree that something Jason C. is likely to do would be a ripoff of Digg. He's certainly been around the industry long enough and proven himself smarter than that.
Just as Digg didn't stop me from reading Slashdot, I don't think I would be "jumping ship" to whatever Netscape might morph into.
The idea of voting stories up or down may have been popularized by Digg (was it the first site?), but it's not like that's the only thing that makes Digg worthwhile. Just look at Newsvine, for example. They take the same idea, but don't seem to have the appeal of Digg at all.
Calacanis pulled off a major win with Weblogs, and if anyone's likely to make Netscape.com worth visiting (especially someone in the AOL family), I'd like to see it be him. Hopefully it will become something that is great in addition to Digg, not in competition with it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Why would you want to visit a "copycat" site when you can visit the orinigal site. Well said coxon.
- jtrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think we should welcome Digg "copycat" sites for one simple reason: Competition makes products better. If copycat sites do emerge Digg will be forced to roll out more and better features so it doesn't lose users to other websites.
- FiReaNG3L, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Patent what, users voting for popular stories? Tons of website have done it in the past. Voting for popular stories with cool AJAX stuff? Won't cut it!
Digg is nothing new. But its the best at whats its doing. For now. Nothing's eternal, isnt it? - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4actually, it's "life AND times."
What would "life of times" even mean? - yensed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Look at his Diggs: http://digg.com/users/jdawg
He has dugg 3 "Netscape wishes it would be as cool as digg" submitions. - mianos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Please please please digg, can we have a new button up the top with 'flag as a blog to a blog'?
- CompACE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The weird thing is - one of the founders of netscape has invested alot of money towards digg.com
- drwiii, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Patent digg? And watch kuro5hin be held up as prior art?
- technel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3>> Digg only does one thing and does it well.
I recall that on TWiT Kevin mentioned that he was not interested in selling Digg and wanted to expand it to more topics. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why? People in the industry aren't necessarily worth digging or adding as friends. I'm in the industry and that doesn't mean I know *****. In fact - I don't. :)
- hchaudh1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just because Digg is an aggregator, does not mean every aggregator is a Digg copy cat. Digg is one of the sites that I really like and visit like 10 times everyday, but this is crossing over into the realm of megalomania.
- 8ight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3if this happens and it's not just tech news, but all news... it might work. also, if it actually LOADS (!!!) then it might work. and i'm not talking about linked stories, i'm talking about the pages of the actual site.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Netscape wasn't a failure earlier on... Netscape 8 is actually a nice browser, dunno why people hate it.
- sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i wouldn't be too worried everyone already hates netscape
so i doubt anyone would even thing about going to this site. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think it would be good to have another digg like website... competition always brings the best out of everybody...
- jmullman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Netscape?
Welcome back to 1998. - movieguyjon, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2I agree wholeheartedly. I am not really interested in some person's blog post regarding tech news. I would rather have straight tech news, personally. Having a flag for "blogs" would come in quite handy.
- ramallama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But to know that you dont know ***** is the first step to knowing *****.
-- Budda's brother -- - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I second this idea.
- Reddog_x2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just checked their site out for the first time in years. They defintely need to do something with it. It's just a second rate portal that hasn't updated it's look since about 2000. I'd be surprised if they get much traffic other than from netscape users who don't know how to change their homepage.
- Stormen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You guys don't get it... Netscape isn't going to be the only site copying Digg. Digg is the future of news- and contentpublishing.
In a world where we get as many news per day, as our ancestors got in a whole year, you need systems that "automatically" separates, rates and promotes material. That system has been refined and cultivated by Digg; and it's going to be further developed by each so-called copycat that appears.
- aa90digg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, good luck...
- spinbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you were AOL, and you had a dying property (netscape) and were constantly being told you needed to go "Web 2.0" wouldn't you guinea pig it with Netscape too? The only reason the Netscape browser continued to exist was so that people would leave Netscape.com as their homepage by default so that Netscape.com could continue as an ad-driven property.
For AOL, it's a reasonably risk-free opportunity to leverage the purchased weblogs.com expertise and take a spin at enabling Web 2.0 tech/approach. Makes perfect sense to me.
Don't be suprised if they're really trying to pilot a flock-like browser for the masses, and if it takes off, move it to larger AOL properties. I think the Digg-ness will be just for the netscape.com portal, the rest of the strategy will be interesting to follow as they have the cash to explore their options. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well. This has been proven true
- Drood, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Having worked for his company, I can tell you that the internal mailing list is LOADED with Weblog's Inc folk begging people to come here and Digg their stories they've submitted. (Which is of course stuff they've written.) It's pathetic.
- t94xr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The Life of Times of Netscape.
Created a browser... Failure.
Sued Microsoft ... Slow and painful destruction of the compnay. Failure.
AOL firing and having developers move to Mozilla.org ... ummm yah
Re-Released Netscape using Firefox engine ... Failure.
Netscape copying another established site, Digg.com. ... Pathetic. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope that he doesn't take your citing his comments on his blog as evidence that it MUST BE TRUE in a follow up to his own piece on his own blog next week, like that goofball about the Google buyout of Sun that took the NYT blogger's citing of his comments as support or proof of his original claims. :)
Still, I used to work for Netscape Communications up until AOL took over. I loved everything about it. The products. The people. The atmosphere. Even the buildings we worked at in Mountain View (just on the other side of the Veritas buildings). I have had zero interest in Netscape either as a website, a browser or a brand since AOL took over. I am glad it is there as an alternative to MSIE for the masses, but for the rest of us, I would just rather use FireFox. And as a portal . . . well . . . I can't imagine anything they could do to get me to give a damn. Maybe if they gave me free unlimited storage for life or something. Otherwise . . . . They're old news. - retawd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Netscape, to me, has to be the most ridiculous failure of Dot.com companies so far. They had Everything. All the browser market, forward thinking ideas, great investment potential then FLUSH. Shot to hell. Now they're offering $10 dial up. Whoever ran that company should not just be fired, but shot. Then shot again. Warning for future, big buyouts are NOT GOOD. Time Warner/AOL/Turner/Sony? we all lost.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I couldn't help laughing at the "digg copycat" comment. Digg was the first news and link aggregation website, everyone knows that.
- bobooo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think digg users will go to Netscape and read news, will ya? Once you digg, you dugg with Digg!
- Henge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Netscape can try all it wants, but it still won't be Digg.com. Those terds will still have all sorts of pop-ups and crap annoying users and all the other commercial crap that sites like that push on users. If I was Kevin and Alex, I wouldn't worry too much about because people recognize that the original is always the best (with the lone exception of Terminator 2). To the contrary, it's quite a compliment for sites to be copying your style.
- bobx11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i'm sure my comment is way too late to get read - nor does it matter - but you people who are finatical followers of digg.com (or any company) need some perspective. the concept behind digg isn't a new one - i wrote a same site months before digg came out - i just didn't do / have the time to do the marketing to have it take off... same exact thing. Modeled it after fark.com except people could promote their own stories by getting them voted up - getting rid of the dreaded moderators on slashdot and far. oh my god! i must protect
... but seriously, digg is good - nice CSS, no downtime, conservative usage of ads. if fark had a makeover like this i'd still be visiting there... but you can only see the text "sorry we spilled beer on the server" so many times - isosceles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Netscape was always a step behind in the browser market. I presume any attempt to do so in the social bookmarking world would be the same.
- tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I agree Coxon. Digg is just easy to use, and this is just the beginning of Digg, we got a long way to go with many great features being added.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1netscape 9 hopefully will include server stored bookmarks.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4with the majority of aol users its possible
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It will be censored and full of crap. They'll give premium space to advertizers and have shills posting propaganda. Another corporate ***** farm to promote obesity and cancer.
- lioncrypt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0netscape is getting desperate
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