FWDitOn’s Digg Model for Emails

When you talk about “super interesting personal emails”, are you also talking about your email that Nick featured on Valleywag before TC7?

I think this ROCKS!!! I hate e-mail forwards - the ones with the jokes so far embedded it takes you 20 minutes to scroll through the garbage! Stupid, and great idea to put them online to read there.. but I do like the possibility of disgruntled Telcom workers posting memo’s and internal e-mails there!

Rex

The thing is how many people are actually going to submit stupid emails to this site. And then how many people are actually going to go to a site like this to see funny emails?

Nice idea.. But looks to be very open to abuse..
How many emails can the average server spit out a minute?

FWD: Dear Mike

Digg *was* the (web 2.0) replacement for those incredibly stupid forwards and chain-letters. The only reason we don’t get 50 of them a day anymore is because all these terrible social news sites allow the morons that used to forward said emails to just spread stupid sites/videos by “digging” them.

The only thing worse is the other replacement for these annoying FWDs is the existance of countless blogs on which every moron that has one feels the need to spread the word about basically what amounts to the same… I’m not sure which is worse, the link-blogs that just link to the time-wasters of the week or the ones that try to do commentary on them.

Thank you for contributing to this exact problem.

Though this article was pretty funny with you suggesting the digg model as an ideal one and pressing a button being a superior model to an actual ranking system that might require the slightest bit of thought.

“Quickl” ususally has a ‘y’ at the end of it, but if you’re used to the efficiency of pushing a button to contribute to what’s really important and/or entertaining as the Web-2.0 version of annoying FWDs scroll by, I could see how this form of short-hand may be appropriate for your hard-hitting news stories.

Sincerely,

Your Biggest Fan

ps. feel free to forward this to 7 of your friends within the next 10 minutes or you’ll have bad luck for the rest of your life.

Extremely slow site in performace. Probably being pounded after the exposure here on Techcrunch & the home cooked PHP soup.

Neat concept! Gmail could have such features..

sorry this is just stupid. how many more of these sites that just do one thing a little bit differently, rather than actually changing how we view things, do we really need. I’ll treat this the same way I treat the lame forwards, simply ignore it.

Uhm… why not rate popularity by how many people forward it to them?

Let people receive the day’s most popular fowarded joke, and you close the loop. Ad advertising, of course

I must admit that I was also disapointed by FWDitOn. But OTH they opened a pandora box where others will push the idea forward

This site I visit regulary does the same thing:
http://www.freeple.com/

Except it isn’t down like FWDitOn.com is now. Boo!

It sounds well!!

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Web 2.0 at its best. Death by TechCrunch. Perhaps TC is the new Slashdot. Instead of getting Slashdotted, you get TechCrunched.

In any case, a few points:

- With so many startups now trying to duplicate this Digg model, I think it defeats the purpose. The idea behind social media and services like Digg is that you can leverage the opinions of other users (including your friends) to find content that’s most interesting and relevant to you. Great concept. The problem is that many of these models are flawed (Digg is vulnerable to manipulation, etc.) and there are so many similar services popping up that the problem of information overload and relevance is not solved, it may actually be getting worse. I don’t find getting interesting links any more efficient on these services than elsewhere. Maybe I’m in the minority…

- This type of service could find itself in legal hot water if somebody used it with emails that contained confidential or priviledged information, especially if they were clearly marked as such. Not sure if they’d be liable, but they could find themselves at the center of some interesting disputes. Given the poor software they have, however, I doubt they’ll get that far.

this is a business?

I like the name — it’s nicely alliterative if you speak some French. Cuz “dit-on” is in there, which is like “they say!”

on the one hand, i hate email forwards, so i think this idea is terrible. and isn’t a major proponent of an email forward the social aspect? So instead of getting my inbox clogged with forwards from all my relatives who just figured out how to use email, i’ll be getting forwarded emails with links to this website with top ranked forwards.

However, if this can keep forwards out of my inbox all together, i will be a happy man.

Ugly error message!

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Hi guys,

Dreamhost has taken our site offline for the moment. We are just on some shared hosting and one of our scripts was apparently causing problems. We are looking into it and notifying dreamhost that we were techcrunched and trying to get the site back online.

Sorry guys - we never really though the site would get techcrunched or anything.

In response to Joe - no we arent a business. It is just a site we knocked up for some friends etc.

Thanks for the feedback and comments/suggestions though!

I have to agree with JD(#7) on this. Isnt it time that someone changed the way we did things instead of repackaging it.?

Maybe we will get to read some very intersting forwards in this site. I couldnt get there as i encountered the same error faced by Andy(#16)

However i have to say that it is very nice of the FwditON admin(#17) to clarify the reason for the site’s unavailability at this point. Hope you guys come back soon.

Just a quick note - the site is up and running again - we will keep an eye on things for a while before we cron up the email submission script again.

Thanks for your patience.

Interresting concept. I hope nobody will submit Viagra emails

kdkood

Just forwarded along an email that you all need to read. The deposed ruler of a small nation in Africa just emailed me through a trusted referral and needs my assistance in transferring $15 million. I’m getting 20%. Deal should be closed any day now. Just waiting to receive confirmation that he received my bank account details. Apparently there are other opportunities like this all over the world so please find my email on FWDitOn and contact Dr. Abu to get information about these other opportunities.

“I was disappointed, though, not to find the kind of super interesting personal emails that eventually go public and are read by everyone. Perhaps the site will evolve to include those as well.”

You nailed it… I am surprised that they haven’t hired a team of college co-eds, or even a team of recent alumni from the same USC sorority to write some really risque emails. Imagine an office culture that *encourages* the use of email to humiliate your colleagues as well as putting those emails in the public view. The possibilities are endless.

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