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I found this article through Ebaum’s World.

Digg tried to compete with Facebook. Why? That is like Amazon trying to compete with Facebook or Minute Maid Lemonade competing with Honda. They do completely different things and just because they both use the internet doesn’t mean they are in the same business. My guess is that Kevin Rose was sitting around a table with a few other internet entrepreneurs and and they got in to a pissing contest despite the fact that they are all happily very wealthy and thriving in their respective fields. So instead of continuing to enjoy being the best news trending site Digg goes and tries to put better rims on it’s lemonade box.To Kevin Rose: When I buy Lemonade i do not want an Air Conditioner and 20″ Rims. I guess I could understand if Facebook was planning on creating a Digg copycat section in their website somewhere, but they haven’t and they haven’t even tried. Also that doesn’t address the fact that as a user I do not want my personal friend network associated with my public news voting network. It is kind of like how you don’t want your political vote to be public. Digg was the voting box and it was sacred and anonymous. I do not want to know that leo le porte is on digg or what he is digging just like I don’t want people to log on to google and find out what I am searching. Digg is the angry mass. It is anonymous and that’s what makes it honest. It has a Niche and if you throw out the names and emphasis on social bonds and ‘friends’ then it can get back to what it does best. Be a lynch mob. We need a good lynch mob every once and a while. Emphasis on ‘good.’ As for the ‘power digging’ if certain people are going to work hard to digg stories then let them. If they aren’t robots and they bother to read the content then let them digg all they want. Put a time limit between diggs or something. Try and reduce fake accounts and voting, but don’t change the very nature of the site…

Edit: to Facebook: let people arrange comments in order of how many people ‘Like’ them and then maybe you will even BEGIN to compete with Digg (what Digg was), but you still will never really compete with them because the essence of Facebook is to be real with real names and that in essence is different than Digg.

The businesses are essentially different. Get over it.

Not sure how you think Facebook is completely different? They are both social. They both allow you to share content with friends. And they both allow you to discuss that content with your friends.

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