DuggBack fights the Digg effect
DuggBack is a site that keeps cached and mirrored copies of websites hit with the infamous Digg effect, the huge burst of traffic from Digg’s front page which often results in a slow or completely dead website. The idea is nice enough, with one major drawback: this already exists, and it’s called Duggmirror; what’s worse, diggers have used Duggmirror for a long time now, so much that many consider it to be a part of Digg (it’s not, it’s a third party service).
So, how does DuggBack compare? Quite well, actually. While Duggmirror only offers a cached version of every site that appeared on Digg’s front page, DuggBack gives you a choice to see the site as it is, live; a cached version, the link on Digg, and several other cached versions, including the DuggMirror one. It does all this in a frame within the site, which might annoy a couple of users, but for this purpose it makes sense, and it’s done quite well.
Even better, DuggBack offers quite a large selection of options, which makes the site highly customizable - you can change the size of some elements, or turn most of the elements on the site on and off. Oddly enough, you can even turn off the AdSense ads present on the page!
Now, couple all this with a solid overall design of the site, and it seems that we’ve got the first great application that sprouted from the public release of Digg’s API. I can see one problem, though: “Dugg” is also one of Digg’s trademarks, and it’s possible that Digg will enforce it somewhere in the future, forcing DuggBack to an unpleasant name change.
April 27th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
When you say that DuggBack would be forced into a name change by a Digg trademark enforcement, I think Diggmirror/Duggmirror would be forced to do the same, wouldn’t it? I doubt they have an official license (one isn’t referenced on their website).
Are you sure you aren’t one of the people that think Diggmirror is a Digg service? Hehehe.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:41 am
@Stephen: Duggmirror could also be forced into a name change, just like DuggBack. I just didn’t point it out because this text is about DuggBack. In my opinion, it is less likely for Digg to enforce the “Dugg” part of their trademark than “Digg”, but it’s definitely a possibility.
Here’s a quote from the Digg site: “DIGG, DIGG IT, DUGG, DIGG THIS, Digg graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.”
Just check out Doggdot.us for an example.
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