Another service gets TC'd thanks to Hacker News

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/22/dimp-a-direct-manipulation-video-player/

by brianlash • 18 years ago

11 6 18 years ago

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gojomo2• 18 years ago

We already saw the original -- and it's still on the front page! Why this submission-- essentially a duplicate?

"TechCrunch runs a story we already saw via my tip!" is not itself a story.

brianlash2• 18 years ago

How do you figure it's a duplicate?

One submission points to a new technology. The next points to the relevance, timeliness, and implicit power of the Hacker News community. If you've ever tried to market something you know how hard it is to be picked up by big-name bloggers; TC has as many as 3 million viewers a month between uniques/RSS. That's tremendous exposure, and it started right here only 12 hours ago.

If that marketing message doesn't speak to you that's fine... just don't vote it up.

By the way, thanks for the credit, but I never asked for it -- not in my tip to Mike Arrington, and not in this post which follows. That's not the story, and that's why I chose not to highlight it. Anyway I credited HN (not myself) in my message... Mike pulled the TC link from my email signature.

gojomo2• 18 years ago

If you forwarded the link to TC, that's a testament to them following emailed tips, not News.YC.

It's also naive to chalk a story-meme's advance up to any one hop-path, because these things go in waves. If the concept has legs, it appears multiple places in rapid succession no matter what.

Also, TC has picked up things from News.YC before (hence the 'another' in your headline), and will again. Do we need an 'echo' story post every time? At best it's self-congratulatory fluff.

Which I brings me to the ultimate reason I didn't like this submission. I can no longer read TC directly because it's all snark, sophomoric analysis, sensationalist linkwhoring, and self-congratulatory fluff. I don't want News.YC to be thought of as a TC-feeder; I don't want hat-tips from TC to News.YC bringing more of that comment-community, hair-trigger-attention-span, and traffic-at-any-cost attitude here.

So there you have it. If it's impactful news that breaks at TC, it's still a good submission here too. If it's something we already read here, or echo-chamber navel-gazing ("look, he likes us, he really really likes us!"), it dilutes the unique value proposition of this forum.

mattdennewitz• 18 years ago

duplicate or not, its pretty great

whacked_new• 18 years ago

I find the docstoc widget very intriguing, given how everybody here pretty much knows about Scribd as the startup to have opened up this arena. Although I'm not a Scribd user, the CrunchBase profile for docstoc is a bit annoying: "The YouTube of documents," even though that's what Scribd was intended as, over a year earlier.

Another service gets TC'd thanks to Hacker News

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