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Digg growth flat for 2007? Is their a place for social curation outside of geekdom?

Anyone else notice that Compete shows digg essentially flat in (three quarters of) ‘07? And, that’s with a lot of feature launches too - topical areas, pictures, video, etc. Say what you will about the validity of Compete stats, but evidently digg is struggling to grow beyond its core 20something-geek demographic.

The continued bleeding of Netscape/Propeller in fact suggests that concept of socially moderated news may not resonate with demographic segments other than digg’s core audience:

So - here’s the question: do Jane and Joe Sixpack want to participate in their news and content? Or just consume?

bleeding, digg, netscape, propeller traffic

A Question for Jason C.: How would Netscape have handled “the Number”?

Jason - glad to hear you’re back to Fatblogging - the transparency and your efforts are always inspiring.

That having been said, here’s my question for you and your old Netscape team: How would Netscape and the Navigators (good name for a band) have handled the sh!tstorm on Digg this week over the HD-DVD number?

Would it have gone up? Did it go up? Was it blocked? I’m not sure how to search the Netscape News Stories that have been voted on, but this search (News > Top Stories) turned up no results.

Anyway, I’m curious - given that AOL is close to the entertainment industry, more “corporate” etc - would the community have won out there?

calacanis, digg, hddvd, jasoncalacanis netscape