Feeling good to publish a duplicate ?
What a shame (-_-!). A new Chinese website named dingr turned out to be designed (layout, icons, and functions) almost the
same with one of the other famous web 2.0 website digg. The application is good and impressing; however, we are expecting new
versions of the application rather than that with just a replacement of interface language, English to Chinese or whatever.
Duplication is worth nothing! What makes the Dingr standing out by now is the language user base, the fact that tens of
millions Chinese internet users make our “internet” activities localized in the language specific world. We are not dully
learning new techniques, but how come we are always dully coming up with new ideas?! Instead, when a new application is
published and earning high reputation, the first thing pops up in our heads is: copy it!
Comparing with the wide spread of digg, which has already be integrated with many other different web applications, I am
wondering when and how our own web applications, especially the dingr starts its next step: copy again or find its own way?
on January 7, 2006 on 9:10 pm
Hi, I read your comments and I’m from the team that created dingr.com. Thanks for giving us your feedback. It’s a fact that we’re imitating digg in many of the ways currently, mostly as an experiment to test whether this format will be acceptable to the Chinese taste. We want to thank digg for its pioneering in this field. However, The most important technology in digg is in its backend, which we cannot simply copy. So the innovations will come maybe in a very short time. We have some excellent ideas how to develop the new features. This is just a start, and I hope that you’re not too offended by the similarity between us and digg. Come back to dingr sometime and I hope you’ll see this change.
I also hope that you don’t link this with the generic Chinese. It is just a website, and digg has many clones in other languages as well. Once it’s becoming a phenomenon, and it doesn’t fit the needs of some people, a necessity of creating an own version will become evident.
on January 7, 2006 on 9:16 pm
Hi, I also wrote some comments in Chinese at dingr.com. Welcome your feedback. Thanks!
on January 8, 2006 on 1:30 am
Thanks for fikko’s feedback. The fact that you are open to ideas is impressive. I believe dingr.com has finished the technology by itself. However, it is inevitable to discuss the long term phenomenon existing in China IT industry that lots of applications copied others idea without own created features. Of course, the problem doesn’t bring in a simple connection with the generic Chinese; The connection is with our IT industry. The purpose to highlight this issue is self-criticism, also a reminding to self-improvement. We definitly have the ability to learn, but now it is the new era for us to push ourselves to “think”! I am looking forward to see the innovations you mentioned become true in near future!–>
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