Sal Cangeloso

http://arghyle.com

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    • This Week's IPOs: Sourcefire, Xinhua Finance Media Ltd. [view article]
      What about clearwire? Any news? Mar 04 10:25 AM
    • Raw Sugar is Toast; Is Digg Next? [view article]
      I think some anti-Digg sentiment is warranted. I mean, it is an amazing site which I think will do well in 2007, but it is very easy for a bookmarking-style site to fall out of favor. What must be remembered though is that when something new comes along, the older ones don't completely fall apart and lose all their value. For example Digg took a lot of readers from Slashdot, but Slashdot still does well. Reddit might take users from Digg, or Delicious, but neither will loose much value. When dealing with the web, being second place can still be very profitable (though the founders may not be able to sell at the point of a site's highest value). Jan 01 12:13 PM
    • Feeling Good Netvibes [view article]
      Netvibes is the best service like this, by far. There are some others, like PageFlakes, and an increasing number of Virtual Desktops or Web Operating Systems, like Goowy.com, that take it another step or too, but I have been the happiest with Netvibes. I have found that the page loads rather slowly sometimes, but it's a great homepage. Dec 31 07:13 PM
    • Would You Invest $8.5 Million In Digg? [view article]
      I think the Digg situation provides us with a lot of food for thought. First of all Digg's user base exploded, primarily with people deeply interested in tech, once Digg got all of the people they could this way they tried to expand to other types of news like science, politics, and all those other options that no one reads. The front page of Digg is still the Tech column, not the All News view, as evidence of this failure. This is something similar to what Facebook did in allowing anyone to join- a quick a dirty way to expand their user base and make the investors happy.

      Also as you noted the whole idea of social news it fraught with problems. A company this valuable should not be relying so heavily on the top users, all of which are unpaid, but if those users are paid, then what is left of Digg's goal? Also there is the gaming and spamming. I would like to think the 80/20 rule applied here, but I think of all Diggs readers just a small percentage actually Digg, let alone submit, and even few ever get something to the front page.       Dec 29 10:02 AM
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