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- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"In June, AOL’s Jason Calacanis breathed new life into the declining Netscape portal by converting it into a social news website reminiscent of Digg. In doing so, Netscape introduced the idea of meta-journalism to social news. Staff Anchors do follow-up journalism on the most interesting stories of the moment, and their community is better informed because of it."
this was posted by Derek van Vliet (aka BloodJunkie), who works for netscape - ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You're completely wrong. If my memory serves me correct, 8 million people visit Digg every month. That's Digg alone. What about Del.icio.us? What about Reddit? What about Netscape? What about fark? What about Furl? And others.... 10s of millions is not a fabricated statistic. It's pretty darn close.
- ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4And...? So what? Derek didn't say that Netscape pwns Digg. He merely stated a fact: Calacanis tried to save Netscape by inserting some of Digg's best features into the dying Netscape. What's wrong with that?
There's so many people here that hate Netscape.... for what?! Digg never patented the idea. You don't see the US Gov coming after Kevin Rose for using a democratic based system to promote/bury news.
Let Derek work for Netscape. Is he harming you in any way? Is he doing anything wrong? The resounding answer is: NO. - Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"And...? So what? Derek didn't say that Netscape pwns Digg. He merely stated a fact: Calacanis tried to save Netscape by inserting some of Digg's best features into the dying Netscape. What's wrong with that?"
I think he took issue with the fact that Netscape was "better informed" because they have moderators. This is 300% false unless you have some hard evidence to back that up.
Not to sound like a broken record, but Netscape's business plan is inherently flawed...and its failure (in terms of social news) is entirely the fault of Calacanis.
Edit: Stop using the word pwns. - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the thing that got me was the last line
- JimMessenger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4"Whoa! This is a 404 page."
- consonance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I would have rather read a summary by Don van Vliet.
- CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nerrrrd!
- anitab83, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"tens of millions of people get their news from socially driven news sites every month" ... I'd love to see where he gets that statistic. Digg is by far the biggest social bookmarking site, and there's no way millions of users rely on digg for their stories (or click on them at least). Even the most read stories get 100,000 hits or so.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0The only people who come here for real news are nerds. Look at the top articles in digg, 90% of em are news for nerds. Web 2.0 is going to fail for this exact reason. User generated blah blah blah, replace user with nerd, replace target market with nerds.
- sunn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I agree no digg!
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1having read the comments...noDigg
- dataphyle, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Netscape should try doing something original instead of ripping off other peoples work. . . . And I agree the stats used in this article are totally fabricated. This Derek guy is an idiot.
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