Comments on: Yahoo Did Not Rip Off Digg

By: John

John — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:37:26 +0000

Wait until we all vote for President in 2008. The Diggers will go nuts!

By: David Temple

David Temple — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:03:12 +0000

This is not a ripoff of Digg. Yeah the interface looks familiar and yes you vote “Digg style” as Yahoo put it but it is not trying to do what Digg does. Yes ,Yahoo could have changed the interface to look less Digg like but who cares?

By: Jason Salas

Jason Salas — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:37:03 +0000

Here’s the main issue as I see it: Digg popularized the notion of social voting for articles, which is its claim to fame. Yahoo! in my opinion has leaned a little too close to Digg’s implementation of voting AND their user interface, hence the backlash.

http://www.jasonsalas.com/2007/02/yahoos-new-suggestion-board-w-e-k.html

By: Mike Lee

Mike Lee — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:32:57 +0000

Yahoo’s Yodel Anecdotal blog is full of anti-Yahoo comments about this product:
http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/02/14/it-takes-two-to-tango/

I have a sneaking suspicion one or two people with a lot of time on their hands wrote all of these. Maybe they once tried to apply at Yahoo and were rejected?

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:58:33 +0000

What is the point in burying it – if Yahoo really was offering a Digg clone rather than a user feedback interface, Digg would provide free advertising and bury itself.

By: Empresas de Peru

Empresas de Peru — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:27:30 +0000

Just because it’sa voting system, it doesn’t mean it’s a rip-off from Digg… it’s like saying ask is a rip-off of yahoo which is a rip-off from google, which is a rip-off from altavista… etc. Just because it’s born around a certain concept, it doesn’t mean it’s a rip-off… it’s business evolution

By: Bob Caswell

Bob Caswell — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:21:49 +0000

The irony is that Digg doesn’t have the 10 users needed to bury this story (with 3000+ diggs) while so many other stories are buried for being on “the wrong side.”

By: Andrey Milyan

Andrey Milyan — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:30:27 +0000

Digg wanted a user-controlled environment, they got it. It is now becoming a very nasty place with tons of useless and inaccurate information.

By: baron

baron — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:09:34 +0000

That’s “burying” with one “r”.

The negativity used to lash out at Yahoo is the same negativity directed within. I don’t think Digg management has a firm enough grasp of the matter to do anything.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:35:19 +0000

I have just used the service to submit a suggestion about Pipes.
Even WordPress have introduced something similar in a way, for voting on new features people want to see in future versions and to gauge which ones are most popular.

There is almost nothing similar between this application and Digg.

Have you taken a look at BUMPzee yet? I know Carsten is an active user.

It takes Digg type services off into a totally new direction with some great innovative features and whilst its focus currently is purely on internet marketing, the backend I am sure will be used to power other vertical sites or categories.