Rose v Calacanis, Digg v Netscape
Written By weisheng on Jul. 26, 2006.
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There's been a slanging match going on between Kevin Rose and Jason Calacanis for some time now. Calacanis has proposed paying the top users at digg, reddit, del.icio.us and Flickr $1000 a month to get them over to Netscape since they responsible for most of the stories that get attention.
Kevin Rose has retaliated and so have many digg users, who go around displaying their zealotry much like hardcore Mac users by leaving insulting and disparaging comments everywhere.
I just think this is so childish. Netscape is an obvious copy of digg, but the latter's model is not copyrighted (is it?) and people are going to catch on sooner or later. Shouldn't people just let market forces decide who survives.
What do you think?
elliothere
Written Jul. 26, 2006 / Report /
Digg has probably been childish about it (what else is new...), but they do have a point. Netscape bribing other communities to post at their site instead of Digg/Reddit/Del.icio.us/Flickr is just, well, stupid. What did they honestly expect? You can't buy a community.
Kyle
Written Jul. 27, 2006 / Report /
Kevin Rose is being rediculous. Calicanis is doing exactly what he did for blogging, but to social networking. I don't see how there is suddenly an invisible line drawn in the sand just because people are "digging" instead of "blogging."
Pay people to post blogs, or pay people to seed stories. In the end, he's paying people to perform a service. That service just so happens to directly benefit his business.