Hypa.se puts a sad end to the week by Jonas

Earlier this week we posted about our excitement for the alpha relase of Jaycut.se, the new videoediting site. It brought something new to the Swedish web development. As excited as we were then, we are as depressed here today. IDG (the major publisher of tech publications in Sweden) launched its new site, hypa.se. Dagens Media is writing that IDG hasn’t put their name on the website and there is an obvious reason why…

Beta Alfa is calling it a Digg clone. I think that’s giving them too much credit, and it might be more appropriate to call it a Digga clone, the heavily criticised Digg-like site based on the open source platform of Pligg. Is this what IDG wants to be their next big thing? That the major tech publishing house is chosing to take this path is sad and I’m curious to hear what exactly the explination is. In relation to this, we got an email a couple of weeks ago inquiring about the cost of developing a blog based Digg clone for the magazine Attention.

The conclusion of this seems to be that we can’t rely on that the big publishers will move the web development forward for the Swedish market, instead they seem to be leaving it up to the small companies and entrepreneurs. So, be grateful that they don’t get it and embrace the business opportunities these web sites bring to you.

Update: For inspiration what you could do with an open source resource as Pligg take a look at deals.com who you uses the Digg concept and creates a nisch site. This is one evidence on the opportunities of the community based rating system. A resonable guess is that these kind of sites will be popping up on a regular basis during 2007. From Pronet Advertising


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[tags] hypa.se, idg, digg, publishing, magazine, clone [/tags]

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December 8, 2006 / 2 Comments.

2 Comments

  1. Andreas replied:

    It is sad to see that Hypa havent even tried to do something with Pligg, check out farskpressad.se instead. It is another swedish Pligg based site, but with an original design. It also have some good video content capabilities.

    December 9th, 2006 at 6:06 pm. Permalink.

  2. A sheep named Dolly… replied:

    […] There are few things that tech bloggers love to do more than to stone a clone. We experienced it, here in Sweden, with Digg clones that popped up last autumn. Now, I do think it can be a rather fine line between cloning and taking an idea and developing upon it. It lies somewhere in the significance of the progression. […]

    April 27th, 2007 at 5:13 am. Permalink.

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