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- crazlunatic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+63There really is no such thing as a "digg clone". Digg itself is a clone of the earliest voting-style websites that were first created. It's just that digg managed to make it a Web 2.0 experience and truly take full advantage of the idea and system, and was of course successful
- ers35, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Didn't you hear? Digg invented the concept of voting.
- gbotmbot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23http://minna.topics.yahoo.co.jp/
- gnslngr1919, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Those icons are crazy. I don't know what they mean, but I like them.
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Slashdot.org clone launched with new features. Visit them at www.digg.com
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Actually, that's not true. Digg invented the vote.
/srcsm
The only "digg clone" I've seen so far was that middle-eastern one where they even copied the Digg Dude. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9So instead of the digg effect, would it be the Godzilla effect?
- rcran, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Babel Fish does a pretty hilarious job of translating it.
"It is possible to being this?"
"As for the actual condition of the overseas adoption by the star? ! "
http://babelfish.altavista.com/ - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I *wish* digg had slashdot's comment moderation features. Digg's comment moderation is poorly thought out, easily and frequently abused, and as a result, largely meaningless.
- synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Ya-hooooooooooooooooooooooooo /hard gay
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yahoo owns del.icio.us which Digg cloned/copied, you idiots!
- bs3arch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yahoo! Japan did a very nice job of using the Digg model, and perhaps expanding upon it.
Being that Digg could probably not successfully move into the Japanese market, except for perhaps a joint venture with Yahoo, Goo.jp, NTT Docomo or Livedoor; perhaps Digg can now keep an eye on the changes that Yahoo! Japan brings to their existing model, especially with blog network and non-tech news integration, and gather some ideas themselves. - rcran, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Heh, "While interviewing the chairman where laughing stops stopping"
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Little-known factoid:
Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan are two separate companies altogether.
Yahoo! Japan is the only foreign Yahoo! service which is separately owned and operated. - HideoKojima, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow it looks a lot better than digg.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The constant talk of digg "clones" is annoying as hell. For all we know, Digg may even have licensed some of their technology to some of these sites. But regardless, most of them are alterations of the same design model, including digg, so digg is really a clone of something too. In fact, digg wasn't the first site to use databases, php, css, voting, user-contributed news, etc., it all had to start somewhere.
- vpshockwave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just a small translation - Minna no Topics = Everyone's Topics
- dengzhi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2look at the jap videos on youtube, they don't really like to comment there either
- diggimator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's actually a "Good Thing" (at least according to the logic used by fansub and abandonware distributors), since digg doesn't appear to have any desire to create a Japanese language section.
Digg should find what they can learn from what all these digg clones are doing that are a little different. - Godlesswanderer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1By the way, this is NOT a digg clone.
If this is a clone, wouldn't that also mean that any and every kind of voting system is? - lisafordeg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not very clever post, but what an epatage!
- johanm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4should totally be called "diggimon"
- r00ts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Defendant Horie, at guaranty money 500,000,000 Yen in re-bail?!
Bail anyhow can pay 500,000,000 Yen, how? Also property entirely is forfeiture!!!"
5000,000,000 Yen? Thats like what, $500?
But seriously, all sarcasm aside, some of those translations are just plain silly. - bs3arch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Say say say say say! Fhooooooooooooooooooo!
- Godlesswanderer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hehe you got there before me.
- dengzhi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1don't even bother with automatic translation....maybe in 10, 20 years you can try it again
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can you buy it in a vending machine yet?
- fatadamblog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WHy the hell would anyone digg the translation of the page down is beyond me! Idiot, Baka!
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd like to see Digg expand in foreign markets. There should be a digg.jp, digg.fr, digg.es, digg.de etc.
But unfortunately I think Kevin is afraid to lose control over these other digg sites. - Saiing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>500,000,000 Yen? Thats like what, $500?
Actually it's about $4,260,000, but nice try on the joke. - bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh no. i remember what happened the last time. I swear there should be a filtering system in place that doesnt allow digg and clone to be used in the same sentence together for new topics.
- duggtrio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Japan needs a place to digg as well! They cant read english!
(and for those that can kudos, use digg) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1cool
- jesusface, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1There is only one real Digg. And I loves it:)
- davatron5000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yafoo pwns Japan.
- nonchallant0819, on 03/31/2008, -0/+0This is a great story... found this one through http://www.google.com
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http://www.TopNotchCarpentry.com - Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Clearly, machine translation has a bit to go... Sample story:
It is possible to being this?
Something it is the story which it is not clear, separately the ほ り obtaining it is as for interest however it is not, large badness it is in other things, it is with to do, the ょ? - ae92, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thank god they don't copy crappy American automotive engineering, at least...
- ae92, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The major shareholder in Yahoo! Japan is Softbank, a Japanese company that got its start in software, then IT publishing (it bought a major share in Ziff! Davis back in the day), to investing in broadband (it's majority owner of Yahoo! BB, one of the biggest internet providers in Japan) and telecommunications (they recently snapped up Vodafone Japan and rebranded it under their own name).
Softbank also owns a fairly decent chunk of Yahoo! Inc. and the European Yahoo! franchises, so duffydirect isn't totally off-base. - ae92, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think it's cultural... Japanese bulletin boards are extremely active, although people tend to stick to places like Mixi or 2channel where they can gather in smaller groups. There may be some resistance to commenting somewhere where hundreds or thousands may be reading, but I don't think that's the problem here -- the site isn't really that popular yet... most of the stories are from one or two sources and posted by the same group of people. My guess is it's most likely just Yahoo! employees at this point.
- RoflcopterFUEL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Omg, the usual huge cartoonish avatars. -_-'
- mikehartor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Doubtful info... But I'm not surpised.
- hypnotiq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This would be the one time in the last couple years I have been on this site that I would think it makes sense to link to a blog. Had this linked directly to that Japan site I wouldn't know what to make of it....
OMG The internet is so strange in Japanese. - eean, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Its an odd thing how even the stories that are fairly well dugg (like 40-60) still only have like 3 comments. Maybe some Japanese cultural thing.
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3It's clear by the comments at Digg that the majority of the community lacks both a college education, meaningful work experience and life experience.
- joltjake, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2pfft, yahoo bitches, bring your worst.
- Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2The direct Romantization of the name is is "Minna no Topikkusu"
Translation of the actual name is "everyone's topics" assuming that the "su" at the end is trying to say it's a plural derivative of English. - spatznick, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Internet is getting more into social bookmarking websites.
Social bookmarking websites are looking more and more like digg.
Where is the problem? - hman2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Is it just me, or do half of the Japanese sites I come across have similar, bad designs?
- Merrick178, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1That scared the ever loving ***** outta me... At first I read it as "Yahoo launched digg..." and then for a second I thought I could never log on to digg.com... Death to yahoo!
And them Asians are always going to wanna be like us Americans. But Digg will own the ***** out of "YanutsuHaikashiOoritsuFujiHyundai.com" Or whatever they ACTUALLY end up calling it... -
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