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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.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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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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