Jason Calacanis is the master of getting inside of our heads. He’s singlehandedly doing what his entire staff combined cannot - keeping Netscape alive in the minds of the early adopter crowd. His product may be flailing, but man, he’s great at guerilla PR. Digg founder Kevin Rose is pissed about the whole thing, and I’ve never seen Kevin anywhere near pissed before.
And it looks like Netscape just got hacked too..
time for another calacanis cartoon:
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003108.html
rock on.
Jason has valid points here. I was a little surprised by Kevin Rose’s reaction. I mean, digg is big because of its users. Yes digg was a great idea, yes digg is a great site, but if everyone stopped submitting, they would be in trouble. Jason is merely saying if you rely on your userbase to make money, why not give some money to your userbase.
Jason is baiting Kevin into adopting a model, that inherently benefits Netscape. If Digg determined that revenue sharing was in its best long-term interest, then they would probably do better adopting a Newsvine-like model. Jason’s “Top x” approach is fine for head-hunting but bad for the internal morale of an existing community. He is trying to stir the envy pot within Digg. How much money is Digg (or Netscape.com) actually making at this point? My bet is that it is - not as much as the traffic would lead you to believe. If Jason’s idea is so great, then why haven’t I seen any posts from actual takers?
yes, this has become a war between two zones.. is there anything called on online web2.0 war ?? :)_
oh, I 4got to mention the other side of story, the dissendt group within digg !
http://digg.com/tech_news/Bug_or_Conspiracy_Digg_users_go_CRAZY_modding_down_comments