Comments on: Spotplex, “The Better Digg”, Falls to Crunch Effect http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:25:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: An Update On Spotplex :: Unintentionally Blank http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-28120 An Update On Spotplex :: Unintentionally Blank Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:31:11 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/#comment-28120 [...] complaints arose about Spotplex when Tony at Deep Jive Interests noted that it had crashed under the weight of traffic it received after being featured on TechCrunch. For a service that was supposed to rival Digg, [...] [...] complaints arose about Spotplex when Tony at Deep Jive Interests noted that it had crashed under the weight of traffic it received after being featured on TechCrunch. For a service that was supposed to rival Digg, [...]

]]> By: Deep Jive Interests » Startups Dealing With Getting Crunched, Dugg, Slashdotted, Redd(ited) http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-19771 Deep Jive Interests » Startups Dealing With Getting Crunched, Dugg, Slashdotted, Redd(ited) Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:12:42 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/#comment-19771 [...] Case in point: Spotplex, which went down faster than wunderbed in a fistfight after it got some TechCrunch love. [...] [...] Case in point: Spotplex, which went down faster than wunderbed in a fistfight after it got some TechCrunch love. [...]

]]> By: Yme’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » links for 2007-03-02 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-18668 Yme’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » links for 2007-03-02 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:21:05 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/#comment-18668 [...] Spotplex, “The Better Digg”, Falls to Crunch Effect At any rate, without actually seeing it its hard to really evaluate it. But in as it uses the analysis of blogs for news and buzz, it seems to be following the pattern of Techmeme, Tailrank, Megite and their ilk rather than Digg. (tags: interesting news collective_intelligence aggregation publishing) [...] [...] Spotplex, “The Better Digg”, Falls to Crunch Effect At any rate, without actually seeing it its hard to really evaluate it. But in as it uses the analysis of blogs for news and buzz, it seems to be following the pattern of Techmeme, Tailrank, Megite and their ilk rather than Digg. (tags: interesting news collective_intelligence aggregation publishing) [...]

]]> By: Tony http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-18650 Tony Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:21:34 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/#comment-18650 Martin -- thanks for your first hand account; the long lasting value of some pimp action from some heavy hitters might lie within the creation of a relatively high volume of in-bound links that they might not already get. Cheers t Martin — thanks for your first hand account; the long lasting value of some pimp action from some heavy hitters might lie within the creation of a relatively high volume of in-bound links that they might not already get.

Cheers
t

]]> By: Tony http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-18648 Tony Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:19:59 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/#comment-18648 frantic, its up right now ... I am leaning towards thoroughly unimpressed as well. As always, thanks for stopping by. ;) Cheers t frantic,

its up right now … I am leaning towards thoroughly unimpressed as well.

As always, thanks for stopping by. ;)

Cheers
t

]]> By: Tony http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-18647 Tony Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:18:46 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/#comment-18647 Thanks for your thoughts Matt -- www.crispyblogposts.com looks interesting, and certainly no worse that Spotplex. Cheers t Thanks for your thoughts Matt — http://www.crispyblogposts.com looks interesting, and certainly no worse that Spotplex.

Cheers
t

]]> By: Martin Edic http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-18573 Martin Edic Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:43:32 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/02/28/spotplex-the-better-digg-falls-to-crunch-effect/#comment-18573 Having been through the positive crunch review with a former employer I have to note that you don't get any warning that they are going to post- it just happens. Since this usually triggers a bunch of related sites (we hit number one on Digg shortly after the techcrunch post), if you don't have the bandwidth you're going to go down. It wasn't an issue in our case as the company had its own large scale datacenter. I've seen sites recommended by Seth Godin go offline multiple times. The influencers really do have a rapid effect- but it is short-lived and the value is questionable. Everyone wants a crunch review but, to be honest, it has fleeting value. They (and their readers) are on to the next thing very quickly. Having been through the positive crunch review with a former employer I have to note that you don’t get any warning that they are going to post- it just happens. Since this usually triggers a bunch of related sites (we hit number one on Digg shortly after the techcrunch post), if you don’t have the bandwidth you’re going to go down. It wasn’t an issue in our case as the company had its own large scale datacenter.
I’ve seen sites recommended by Seth Godin go offline multiple times. The influencers really do have a rapid effect- but it is short-lived and the value is questionable. Everyone wants a crunch review but, to be honest, it has fleeting value. They (and their readers) are on to the next thing very quickly.

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