Sites like Digg.com, which let users choose the most popular news stories, have exploded onto the scene amidst a mass of Web 2.0 and social media hysteria. With nearly 350 Digg-style sites on just about any news topic you can imagine, including sites in other languages, the user-ranked and user-generated content revolution won’t be going away any time soon.
Digg.com is an undeniably popular site, showing users around the world the news stories that Digg users have found the most interesting at this moment. As a tool to share what others consider the best of the web right now, it has generated as much publicity for the stories found popular, as it has for the original uniqueness the site brought to a world wide web filled with billions upon billions of web sites.
Clones have come thick and fast, with everyone wanting a piece of the social media/Web 2.0/user generated content action. While it seems that some of these sites are hoping for a Google or Yahoo buyout as their raison d’etre and exit strategy, not every startup succeeds to become the next great Internet company.
The world is, after all, littered with web companies that didn’t succeed. But that hasn’t stopped new innovation and the can-do spirit that urges people on to continually create, innovate and make their ideas succeed.
Click here to see the list of nearly 350 Digg-style sites and check out some of them for yourself. You might just dig it!
