Comments on: Here’s A ScreenShot Of Publish2

By: Publish2 gets Series A financing - mathewingram.com/work

Publish2 gets Series A financing - mathewingram.com/work — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:14:41 +0000

[...] Scott is a smart guy, but he doesn’t see the business potential in Publish2. Mike Arrington also seems skeptical — or maybe it’s just because he didn’t get an invite to the [...]

By: Howard Owens

Howard Owens — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:06:55 +0000

You know what the irony is here — I’m always complaining about how uninformed MSM reporters are when covering things I know about — the lake of real knowledge, or seeming need to find fault for the mere chance to find fault, the lack of thoughtful examination … .

And in my own blog, I’m endlessly pointing to TechCrunch as an example of where journalism going.

Ah, the irony.

By: Howard Owens

Howard Owens — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:02:17 +0000

Stealth? As much as Scott has written about it, especially some of the experiments we run with Publish2 in Rockford, plus what Knoxnews.com has done? All of that is pretty extensively documented in Scott’s blog. In fact, if you dig around (or just pay attention) you can find out quite a bit about P2.

By: Alberto

Alberto — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:52:42 +0000

A little bit like Digg and a little bit like Delicious = coRank

You are right Paul, it looks like April Fools unless it has some kind of automated filtering of related news but isn’t there already Keegy with something similar? I guess the money is for the commitment of the journalists…

By: thibaud

thibaud — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:04:05 +0000

would you believe Web 2.0005

/maxwell smart voice

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:00:20 +0000

*slaps forehead* It’s April Fools! Of course.

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:59:59 +0000

I really don’t get it… I’ve had really high hopes for Publish2, but this looks disappointing. However, it is just stealth family and friends, so perhaps they deserve the benefit of the doubt? Let’s hope they are just testing the foundation, and are building the house on top for the public launch.

By: SyndicatedPost

SyndicatedPost — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:17:30 +0000

Web 2.0 is fine.. only what’s lame from Web 2.0 is lame…

[doesn't mean to say whether publish2 is lame, or not lame]

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:11:38 +0000

We’re in a bubble. If Slide didn’t confirm that, this sure as hell does. I will never look to most current web “companies” for inspiration, because they’re doing it all wrong.

I once was inspired by what we call “Web 2.0″, but it has become depressingly lame.

By: bc

bc — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:53:07 +0000

i like it i love it it will be my homepage site.

but whaz the ratio of journalist : news?

1: 2000?
how is it gonna work, it will be a full time job to vote up and down.

By: Sunil

Sunil — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:46:07 +0000

Digg Variants..

@TechCrunch staff, offtopic here but do you need a special invite to join your forums? I tried to register twice and didnt get an email, so cant join.
thanks. Feel free to delete this part of my comment. Didnt know any othe way to reach you.

Marco is right. Its not working at all. I did not receive any mail yet.

By: Champzilla

Champzilla — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:46:04 +0000

So - does this count as Web 2.5? Or is this Web 3.0?

Maybe we should just call it “Web 2.7″

By: OpenPressCenter

OpenPressCenter — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:38:03 +0000

only tens of thousands?… hmmm… but if “anyone can submit”, what does this “exclusively for journalists” mean? (verbatim as it says on the publish2 frontpage)…

By: Razvan Antonescu

Razvan Antonescu — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:30:31 +0000

@Paul: is Pligg with the default theme slightly modified. Just have a look at the avatars

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:29:09 +0000

Someone tell me this is not pligg - please, restore any faith I may have had in this industry, and tell me that they did not get 2.7M in funding to produce a pligg site. I shall check back regularly.

By: Smitty

Smitty — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:21:06 +0000

So they cloned PLIGG ?

By: OpenPressCenter

OpenPressCenter — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:10:46 +0000

…exclusively for journalists… hmmm.. how many journalists are there in the world?… and, english-centric…

By: Razvan Antonescu

Razvan Antonescu — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:08:16 +0000

2.7 millions for a pligg based system backed by journalists? wtf?

By: Harry Wang

Harry Wang — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:34:39 +0000

Dang. What a rip of the digg look.

Harry “pot calling the kettle black” Wang

By: Boris

Boris — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:31:09 +0000

I’m sure some of the money went into harnessing the support of the journalists they claim will make all these votes….

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:25:57 +0000

I like it. To me its a little HuffingtonPost meets Digg.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:11:50 +0000

yes, apparently.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:11:06 +0000

2.7 million for that????