Digg vs Indianpad

As a surfer, I spend lot of time on digg and indianpad. Indianpad can be called a clone of digg and is very similar to digg in terms of functionalities. But there are differences as well. I try to list the the most important differences below.

• Digg is a four letter word, while indianpad is not.
• Digg was started by Kevin Rose who is now quite a celebrity and sitting on a good fortune, while indianpad was started by some Mr. Srinivas with no further details available.
• Digg is always vibrant with thousands of visitors online, while indianpad is visited frequently by only few people with ids, avaksi, garamvideos, djakeel, amiable_indian, beachbong, millvartan etc.
• For many items in digg, there are quite a few comments, on indianpad comments are very few and far in between.
• Speaking of comments, digg allows users to vote on the comments as well where as indianpad does not.
• When promoted to the front page of digg, stories literally catch on fire gaining diggs rapidly; on indianpad showing up on the front page usually makes no difference.
• Digg shows some ads and the revenues are earned solely by Kevin; in indianpad ad revenue goes to the user who posted the story. Just by posting a link to other people’s stories you can be a millionaire on indianpad. Talk about get rich quick!
• Digg is primarily for technology related stuff where non-technology related material are posted quite frequently; Indianpad is mostly for hot and sexy videos where non hot and sexy video material appear sometimes.

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