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Digg fans have a "suggestion" for Yahoo!
But there's something familiar about Yahoo! Suggestions. I can't quite put my finger on it. Oh right, that's it: It looks suspiciously like Digg. The title of the digg link to the Yahoo! announcement is cleverly titled "Yahoo Shamelessly Rips Off Digg and Brags About It." In fact, even Olivier refers to the new site as having "Digg-style voting."
Sure, Digg doesn't have a monopoly on social rankings, but you've got to admit, the web sites do look an awful lot alike, which is enough to prompt an awful lot of ranting among Digg users, both on Digg, and in the comments section of Yahoo! Suggestions.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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RP said 11:46AM on 2-16-2007
Isn't that what Web 2.0 is all about -- ripping off each other's ideas?
Wait, did Digg copyright the idea of a voting system?
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