Comments on: Publish2 Joins The Social News Party http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:58:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: - Publish2 Gets $2.75 Million. For What, Exactly? http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-868479 - Publish2 Gets $2.75 Million. For What, Exactly? Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:56:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-868479 <p>[...] received by Publish2, a startup founded by former GigaOM contributors Robert Young and Scott Karp. I wrote about the company quite some time ago and still have not seen a working prototype, a worrisome sign in my [...]</p> [...] received by Publish2, a startup founded by former GigaOM contributors Robert Young and Scott Karp. I wrote about the company quite some time ago and still have not seen a working prototype, a worrisome sign in my [...]

]]> By: Publish2 Gets $2.75 Million. For What, Exactly? - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-868453 Publish2 Gets $2.75 Million. For What, Exactly? - GigaOM Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:16:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-868453 <p>[...] received by Publish2, a startup founded by former GigaOM contributors Robert Young and Scott Karp. I wrote about the company quite some time ago and still have not seen a working prototype, a worrisome sign in my [...]</p> [...] received by Publish2, a startup founded by former GigaOM contributors Robert Young and Scott Karp. I wrote about the company quite some time ago and still have not seen a working prototype, a worrisome sign in my [...]

]]> By: Publish2 or yet another social news site aiming to change the world « The Social News Insider http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-452610 Publish2 or yet another social news site aiming to change the world « The Social News Insider Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:30:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-452610 <p>[...] 16th, 2007 Today was the day the blogosphere - well, at least a small part of it - talked about Publish2, a site that has not launched yet (why do people keep doing [...]</p> [...] 16th, 2007 Today was the day the blogosphere – well, at least a small part of it – talked about Publish2, a site that has not launched yet (why do people keep doing [...]

]]> By: Avadhut http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-452217 Avadhut Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:49:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-452217 <p>With the emergence of so many 2.0 Web sites—New York Observer, MTV, Spread Firefox, etc.—based on Drupal, the credibility of the CMS as a robust, getting-all-done platform has sky rocketed! Dries would have never imagined that his small project would grow to such massive proportions when he first started. However, with the next relese—Drupal 6—I just hope that the limited Ajax-enabled functionalities in the CMS are addressed; that would be a major step toward becoming more 2.0—fewer page reloads, unbroken user experience, etc. All said, its ludicrously flexible structure and ungodly powerful modules (Views, Webform, ConTemplate, CCK, etc.) are a breath of fresh air in times of DNNs, SharePoints, and Typo3s. Its like WordPress on steroid, lots of them. :-)</p> With the emergence of so many 2.0 Web sites—New York Observer, MTV, Spread Firefox, etc.—based on Drupal, the credibility of the CMS as a robust, getting-all-done platform has sky rocketed! Dries would have never imagined that his small project would grow to such massive proportions when he first started. However, with the next relese—Drupal 6—I just hope that the limited Ajax-enabled functionalities in the CMS are addressed; that would be a major step toward becoming more 2.0—fewer page reloads, unbroken user experience, etc. All said, its ludicrously flexible structure and ungodly powerful modules (Views, Webform, ConTemplate, CCK, etc.) are a breath of fresh air in times of DNNs, SharePoints, and Typo3s. Its like WordPress on steroid, lots of them. :-)

]]> By: David Mackey http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-452060 David Mackey Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:53:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-452060 <p>Any social new company? Interesting. Wouldn't get the light of day from me except you are mentioning it.</p> Any social new company? Interesting. Wouldn’t get the light of day from me except you are mentioning it.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-451397 Om Malik Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:42:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-451397 <p>I wish I could add something to this. I have not seen this yet-to-be-released platform. I have vague ideas, but lets not do that, and wait for these folks to do their show-and-tell.</p> I wish I could add something to this. I have not seen this yet-to-be-released platform. I have vague ideas, but lets not do that, and wait for these folks to do their show-and-tell.

]]> By: Insider http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-451385 Insider Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:35:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-451385 <p>In my previous comment. last paragraph, I meant to say "quoting", not "quiting" !</p> In my previous comment. last paragraph, I meant to say “quoting”, not “quiting” !

]]> By: Insider http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-451364 Insider Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:26:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/publish2-joins-the-social-news-party/#comment-451364 <p>Interesting project. Thanks Om.</p> <p>However, in his post Scott claims his new venture will be able to extend Digg's model to every topic and every niche, and I don't think this is the answer. Topix.net, coRank.com and Pligg/Drupal-based sites are (Publish2 is based on Drupal BTW, so there you go).</p> <p>Why? Topix brings the news and let people democratize them, at any imaginable level. Just look at this: http://www.topix.net/dir</p> <p>And coRank/Pligg/Drupal, although geeks tend to talk them down as stupid Digg clones, they let people create their own social news space about, quiting Scott "every topic and every niche".</p> <p>What do you think?</p> Interesting project. Thanks Om.

However, in his post Scott claims his new venture will be able to extend Digg’s model to every topic and every niche, and I don’t think this is the answer. Topix.net, coRank.com and Pligg/Drupal-based sites are (Publish2 is based on Drupal BTW, so there you go).

Why? Topix brings the news and let people democratize them, at any imaginable level. Just look at this: http://www.topix.net/dir

And coRank/Pligg/Drupal, although geeks tend to talk them down as stupid Digg clones, they let people create their own social news space about, quiting Scott “every topic and every niche”.

What do you think?

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