| Jun 18 |
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Today I came across a new site that might spell the end of Digg and, quite possibly, for tales the end of social bookmarking altogether. Diggxchange is a new service that allows users to collaboratively exchange diggs with other users. All you need to do is register and send a few diggs out and you’ll get those diggs flooding back.
As a site it looks pretty basic and I’ve had a few problems with loading speeds. This doesn’t fool me though. The concept seems like the next step in the spam arms race that seems to be overshadowing the internet. I expect very soon to see a site that allows exchange of diggs, reddits, stumbles, you name it, all into one.
How can they stop it?
Well basically, I don’t think they can. I’ve read quite a few understandably poisonous blog posts describing how all the users will be banned from the bookmarking sites but really it doesn’t take a genius to realise that by mixing in a few (or even a majority of) randomly selected innocent bystanders into site output you can prevent the bookmarking sites from taking action. How can you ban all the users if you will be mostly banning innocent people?
Natural evolution
I think the internet is a true expression of Darwinism. The weak shall perish and, judging from Digg’s front page content, I won’t be shedding many tears.
One of the wonderful things about this is that, as the bookmark sites die, so will those who prey on them. Just like the mammals taking over from the dinosaurs something better, something more intelligent, will rise from the ashes and inherit the netosphere.
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