Oh, this comes in really handy. After the ridiculous ‘outburst’ about Yahoo! ‘copying’ Digg with their suggestion boards, now Microsoft releases Digg-like sites called MSN Reported in Norwegian and French and Flemish Dutch, thx BO18, (for Belgium) language.

The sites are plain vanilla RSVC (Read Submit Vote Comment), with users submitting news on various topics and voting them to the top of the front page. The design is less Digg-like than Yahoo!’s, so there probably won’t be a huge Digg brigade spamming these sites, but this further clarifies that what is clear for some time now: the RSVC concept is popular, it works, it serves a purpose, and everyone will introduce it into their sites and services sooner or later.

Interestingly enough, the link that is probably going to become the English version of the same site, reporter.msn.com, is dead at the moment - there’s no placeholder site. This will probably change soon.