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TechTAGG - Back to Basic Technical Tagging

July 26, 2006 on 6:26 pm | In Musing | 2 Comments

TechTAGG could easily be mistaken for your everyday Digg clone. Honestly, that is a fair assumption. Personally, I like it because it is going back to the basics that Digg started out with - Hardcore Tech. I can’t assume that they will keep with the technical direction, but with a name like TechTAGG - I hope so. They have many of the categories that you generally see: gadgets, hardware and Linux - a bunch more and new categories being added daily.

Bored yet?

I am sure some of you are. Okay, so I saved the best for last. Good old Netscape is trying to do the Digg thing also. It is much more entertainment-biased - which is the standard teen/USA/Internet type of popular stuff. Interestingly enough, the service is not very popular - in fact it is down right unpopular with the Netscape user base. To encourage better participation, Netscape considered paying some members up to $1,000 a month to find and promote interesting stories via their new system. Wow - what a great idea - pay people to help build a community.

And here comes TechTAGG with their slight tweak on the model. They say this -> Look, we want to build a community with a similar model that Digg has built - with improvements and evolve our own strengths. We are not going to pay you explicitly, but we will share the AdSense revenue with you 50% on the stories that you submit. In fact, we want to get this party started, so the first 250 members will get 100% of the AdSense revenues for the life of the site.

Not a bad deal. Just FYI - they have about 71 members so far - better go over there and sign up!