A few days back, Dell launched its customer relation site dubbed IdeaStorm that was taken to be combination between a message board and Digg.com. Now, LiveSide is reporting three new European Microsoft sites that offer service similar to that of Digg.
Currenlty in bata phase, the service dubbed MSN Reporter is at the moment in testing phase in the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway. Everything seems to be Digg-inspired since users can submit links from anywhere and then voting and commenting takes place. Surprisingly, the sites have been able to fetch a traffic of 1 million visitors per month after being in beta phase for two months.
Some cool features of MSN Reporter:
•nl.msn.com displays the top four MSN Reporter stories right on the front page unlike AOL that’s doesn’t get the top Netscape stories to its front page. Bringing the top social posts to the front page of a primary site is indeed appreciable.
•The users of MSN Reporter are allowed to submit links to pages that are thoroughly outside MSN’s control and the freaders are not bound to the MSN domain while visiting those sites. That is really a plus point when compared to the other Digg-inspired sites at Yahoo! and Dell.
Although MSN Reportes, unlike Digg doesn’t let the users vote down stories downside as well as upside in the non-attendance of significant user profiles, it would be too safe to take MSN Reporter as a compelling Digg clone. More and More names in Web 2.0 are following the Digg style and that clearly reflects the potential of Digg’s model.
via: Techcrunch
