Archive for the “Digg” category
Netscape’s Traffic Takes A Dive After It Splits Off Social News Into Propeller?
by Tony Hung on October 11, 2007
About a month ago, I wrote about how Netscape dumped its social news component into its own site, Propeller.com and wondered rhetorically how it would turn out — with the subtext being, perhaps, how *Netscape* would really fare now that (…)
Yahoo’s Mash Faces Two Big Challenges (Not The Least Of Which Is “Yet-Another-Itis”).
by Tony Hung on September 15, 2007
Yahoo has released its social network “Mash” into beta, with a limited number of invites circulating around your favourite social networking sites. I’ve yet to actually play with it myself (not deigned to being big or influential enough to get (…)
* Propeller An Apt Name — Its Time To Sink Or Swim, Lads
by Tony Hung on September 13, 2007
Yes, its a few days late, but a few last thoughts about Netscape is moving its ‘social’ component to Propeller.com, namely that I “dig” the new name (sorry, I couldn’t help myself), I think its a good idea that its (…)
Netscape Parties’ Like Its 1999: AOL Quietly Crushes Calacanis’s “Social” Legacy
by Tony Hung on September 7, 2007
Update: Apparently official communications were such that Scouts were in fact told of the upcoming changes. Some sad (or happy, depending on your point of view) news coming out of AOL this morning: they plan to scuttle Jason Calacanis’s social (…)
Creating Web2.0 Knock-Offs Is An International Phenomenon
by Tony Hung on August 7, 2007
Well, it looks like there are a fair number of German rip offs of Silicon Valley web applications. Nick Gonzalez points out to a Geni-clone, called Verwandt, which, when compared screens to screens, looks so identical, it almost looks shameless. (…)
Digg Gets Owned By Destructoid (And Lord Knows Who Else)
by Tony Hung on August 4, 2007
Seems like Destructoid staffers have been digg pimping each others stories ad nauseum leading, perhaps, to an inequitable number of their stories hitting the front page (if not the gaming front page) of Digg. Not really surprising for a number (…)
A (Long) Argument For Social Voting Not Being The Exclusive Providence of Digg ™.
by Tony Hung on August 2, 2007
In a long eloquent argument that carries not the slightest whiff of sour grapes, the guy behind one of the bigger digg clones social news sites argues for why social voting is merely a feature — and if this is (…)