The History of China Diggs

Written by Luyi Chen on November 26, 2006
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MywowoMywowo has published an article about the history of Digg style website in China. Some excerpts and translation:

Oct 2005, 17dig (has shutdown as of writing), the first Digg clone website in China launched. The website is focused on IT and grassroots news.

Dec 10, 2005 Diglog launched. This website is focused on geek news.

Dec 16, 2005 Dingr launched. The name of the website is originated from Chinese word “Ding”, which means vote in English. The website is focused on IT news.

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March 24, 2006 Mywowo started closed beta testing and formally launched on April 1st. The website combines Digg and review to become a web2.0 directory.

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July 2006, 17dig shut down.

July 27, 2006 Diglog released major updates.

Oct 10, 2006 Wodig released. This is a modified version from Mywowo itself and open sourced to the public.

The above list is still under updating. The thing we want to note is that Mywowo is one of the best web2.0 directories in China and itself is a successful example of independent Digg style website. We regularly visit this website and often found new source to blog. We reported in October about its open source ASP Digg program, Wodig. This is supposed to be the first such kind of open source program in China.

In the excerpt above, you can find the earliest three independent Digg style website in China: 17dig, Diglog, Dingr. We reported them dating back in Jan 2006. Now 17dig has shut down. Diglog is still quite healthy. And we just made a quick check of Dingr, found that posts on its homepage are quite dated.

If you want to learn why Digg becomes so successful, a must read is the Digg Case Study by Start Review. After reading the key success factors summarized by the article, I found that the one local entrepreneur cannot have is The Kevin Rose persona. A great idea still need a great man to realize.

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