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The Rise of Digg.com

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-know-you're-on-top-when-they-wanna-bury-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wired has a story about Digg, a community bookmarking site that creates its own version of the Slashdot effect. It's a provocatively titled piece - 'Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot' - but goes on to consider the obvious similarities between the two and the differences. Digg is more chaotic, immediate and user driven, whereas Slashdot features more in-depth and technical discussions." Well, I hate navel-gazing news but I think the aggregation of blogs is a critical step in the future of on-line content, and Digg is doing good work here. The interesting thing will happen when their population grows a bit more. Scalability is hard... but I imagine the millions of dollars of VC funding will really help.

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  1. Digg Mentioned on Slashdot... by senocular · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot x Digg = The DigDot Effect
    ...
    *Internet explodes*

  2. Re:My comparison by P3NIS_CLEAVER · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot: Stories are often days old (and duplicates abound).

    They are not duplicates. They are a Beowulf Cluster of Stories.

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  3. So Who's Goin' Down First? by dcw3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, so /. links a story to them, and they link one back. The question is, who's servers are gonna melt down first?

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  4. Late again by jcorno · · Score: 5, Funny

    Digg.com had this article posted six hours ago.

  5. wow by Clover_Kicker · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Digg is more chaotic, immediate and user driven, whereas
    > Slashdot features more in-depth and technical discussions.

    *shudders*

    Digg can't really be that bad?