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Reddit vs. Digg vs. 4chan

It’s funny how various online communities see themselves and each other so differently. Check out this matrix of Reddit, Digg, and 4chan users’ perspectives on each other.

How do your favorite online hangouts stack up?

(Chart by Andy Sauter.)

Five Years of Delicious Tagging

Delicious really brought social bookmarking and tagging to the mainstream, so I honestly wish its fifth birthday came under better circumstances. I still remember when it went by the adorably geeky name del.icio.us. I still remember smiling when founder Joshua Schachter quit his day job to pursue his crazy little project full time. I still remember cheering when Schachter’s entrepreneurial gamble paid off, when Yahoo bought Delicious.

In the three years since Yahoo acquired it, Delicious has seen its founder sidelined, its brand diluted, its mindshare diminished, and its design dumbed down.

Hell, Yahoo Buzz competes with Delicious. It’s peanut butter all over again. Click here to continue reading “Five Years of Delicious Tagging”…