Digg to mine the masses
p2p news / p2pnet: Digg is digging deeper.
It’s, “expanding from its niche of technology news to a wider array of subject matter,” says The San Francisco Chronicle’s Dan Fost.
“Digg’s new endeavor, housed at its existing site, www.digg.com, will go live on Monday. It will feature four broad areas: world and business, entertainment, science, and gaming. In the entertainment area, Digg will allow users to rate videos posted on Google, YouTube, Yahoo or other popular sites. Future expansions will include sports.”
ZDNet News‘ Donna Bogatin has Digg ceo Jay Adelson saying, “The point of Digg is to capture the interests of the Internet masses and use that interest to help organize the huge amounts of information on the Web.”
But Digg’s masses are, “passive readers of other’s ‘Diggs,’ rather than active contributors to a Digg ‘collective wisdom’,” emphasises the story.
Digg doesn’t actually report. Rather, through ‘member’ contributions, it links to stories on other sites and although it’s said to have attracted 8.5 million visitors in May, it, “only has 304,000 registered users, submitting, on average, about 2000 stories a day,” says Bogatin, going on:
“As I point out in ‘Social freeloaders: Is there a collective wisdom and can the Web obtain it?,’ the Social Web that is purported to be harnessing a ‘collective wisdom’ of millions, is merely reflecting the opinions of a small number of self-selected active contributors.”
Meanwhile, “Although Digg is one of the more noteworthy pioneers in the field of collaborative editing, it will face an increasingly competitive environment,” says Fost.
“Most notably, Netscape, the Web pioneer that is now part of America Online and its parent company, Time Warner, took the wraps off a similar venture last week. Other sites – some that rely on editors and some that don’t – include Topix.net, a news site owned by several major newspaper companies, and the celebrity news site Staralicious.”
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Also See:
The San Francisco Chronicle – They want to Digg a wider space by expanding Web site’s subjects, June 23, 2006
ZDNet News – Digg’s 8 million ’social freeloaders’, June 23, 2006
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June 24th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Digg appeals to people who are desparate to get more traffic. Expect it to go out of style in the future.
June 24th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
June 24th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
nuff said
June 25th, 2006 at 3:25 am
‘”Expect it to go out of style in the future”
Perhaps. But in the mean time, might as well suck it dry for every dollar its worth.