Wednesday, July 30, 2008

We're in ur website stealing your ideaz.

A recent story was published by Windy Citizen.com about Digg hoping to launch yet another new feature. In 6 months, according to the report, Digg users will be able to create their own Sub Diggs. Wait WTF? Sounds familiar....oh yeah Mixx.com Communities.
This isn't the first time Digg has thought about using some ideas that Mixx.com already has. During SXSW Jay and Kevin were interviewed while walking down the street. During the interview they said "We are looking at making the users landing page customizable." Well sounds like "Your Mixx" to me. Again the bigger player in the Social Media realm is looking at Mixx for ideas. So this honestly makes two times they have thought about implementing an idea that Mixx.com already has.
Digg users bitched and moaned forever for Digg to have a photo section. It took them over a year to do so. Now they are saying this other feature will take 6 months. Pfffft. Mixx did it in about 2 months. That brings up another point.
Mixx.com has a very small staff and just a hand full of developers, Digg has about 50 developers and one person at any given time doing customer service (according to Jay at the first town hall meeting) . So Digg there in lies your problem. To many cooks in the kitchen and no one else watching the site. WTF? 6 months? Your staff must suck. I know one good person on your staff other than that, I do not know what the hell you guys are doing there.
Mixx on the other hand, with their small staff release new features, and has excellent customer service. Oh yeah, did I mention they are heavily involved in their community? Digg is the monster in the Social News world but they still lack originality. Mixx if I were you, I would patent your features so Digg will have to be original, because right now, they are on the fail boat.
Google walked away didn't they?

1 comments:

Julie said...

I take this as good news. It means they see the beginning of the end.

We need to keep getting the word out about mixx. Some diggers still haven't even heard about it. With that, it's only a matter of time.