Hi. I don't understand why you mention BlogMemes as a Trojan Horse. My english is limited, so I apologize for the rest of this comment. I don't know if you have used blogmemes, but is different in many aspects of digg. 1.- We don't have a karma for users, we have a ranking of users, but it doesn't influence the vote. 2.- No negative votes, so users in blogmemes only can promote the notes, and this is interesting. There aren't gangs of people, censuring notes. 3.- Debates with clear position. You can agree with a note, or disagree.
I think that blogmemes is really a social blog, more than a digg like system. At least, it has evolved that way. In the spanish version blogmemes.com, this is notable true, blogmemes.com is like a blog written by the comunity.
Thanks for the mention anyway. 3.- Very simple algorithm 4.- Open source
Scott
· 3 years ago
pete,
Let's not forget Friendster and MySpace. Friendster was the first major social network and was doing extremely well until MySpace came into the picture. I'm sure there's a great deal of space left for memediggers to move into. I'm just waiting for the MySpace of Digg to come around.
- Scott
Mike D.
· 3 years ago
Yep... the comment about Digg is absolutely true. It was only a "simple" operation until v2 came out... and that was quite awhile ago. Almost a year now.
Anybody who thinks creating a site like Digg is just about having a simple algorithm that raises and lowers items based on votes is entirely unfamiliar with the process. Your second point is also worth repeating: you *don't* build these things in advance. You build them in reaction to the usage patterns you notice over time.
Pete Cashmore
· 3 years ago
Hi Eduardo,
Nah, I didn't say BlogMemes was a trojan horse - I was trying to use BlogMemes as a starting point so I could segway to some analysis of this space (hence, a trojan horse, which is a way to sneak something in unnoticed).
Thanks for the clarifications on how BlogMemes works.
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I don't understand why you mention BlogMemes as a Trojan Horse. My english is limited, so I apologize for the rest of this comment.
I don't know if you have used blogmemes, but is different in many aspects of digg.
1.- We don't have a karma for users, we have a ranking of users, but it doesn't influence the vote.
2.- No negative votes, so users in blogmemes only can promote the notes, and this is interesting. There aren't gangs of people, censuring notes.
3.- Debates with clear position. You can agree with a note, or disagree.
I think that blogmemes is really a social blog, more than a digg like system. At least, it has evolved that way.
In the spanish version blogmemes.com, this is notable true, blogmemes.com is like a blog written by the comunity.
Thanks for the mention anyway.
3.- Very simple algorithm
4.- Open source
Let's not forget Friendster and MySpace. Friendster was the first major social network and was doing extremely well until MySpace came into the picture. I'm sure there's a great deal of space left for memediggers to move into. I'm just waiting for the MySpace of Digg to come around.
- Scott
Anybody who thinks creating a site like Digg is just about having a simple algorithm that raises and lowers items based on votes is entirely unfamiliar with the process. Your second point is also worth repeating: you *don't* build these things in advance. You build them in reaction to the usage patterns you notice over time.
Nah, I didn't say BlogMemes was a trojan horse - I was trying to use BlogMemes as a starting point so I could segway to some analysis of this space (hence, a trojan horse, which is a way to sneak something in unnoticed).
Thanks for the clarifications on how BlogMemes works.
:)