Kevin Rose jumps on the Twitter-wagon

Om shares the non-news that Digg’s Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka are working on an IM-like Twitter competitor. Andy Beal, Rex Dixon, and Paris Lemon speculate further.

Speculative options include:

1. Digg-ified Twitter Clone: Voteable twitter posts, sounds a lot like Guy K.’s Truemors. Plus, why not just build an IM submit pipeline for Digg itself, like Meshly uses?
2. An actual IM competitor (as opposed to a twitter competitor): I have no idea what this might entail; IM is a weird anti-hype vortex - its huge, used by millions, monetizeable, etc., but by-and-large buzz & hype free. The digg-squad could be the crew to sex-up IM again - they’ve got the promo chutzpah and better-mousetrap ideas to make it happen.

Will it be one or the other or neither? Who knows! Hopefully whatever it is is a separate corporate entity so that it doesn’t get pulled down when the DMCA grim reaper comes knocking for Digg.

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