If Digg wore high-heels and lipstick
I had the scoop but couldn’t blab until now. But Jossip let the catty out of the bag, revealing the quiet launch of Lipstick.com as a Digg for the glamorous celebrity set instead of unglamorous geeks from Conde Nast.
First 10 headlines on Lipstick right now:
1. Brangelina’s sweet, sweet revenge on the tabloids (nypost.com)
2. Jen & Vince hang out in Sydney, acting more like friends than a couple (people.aol.com)
3. Lindsay, Scarlett, Jessica, Alicia Keys do serious couture at the 2006 CFDA Awards (style.com)
4. Is This For Real?! First Photo of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt! (dlisted.blogspot.com)
5. Brandon Davis’ grandma is a dirty liar (thesuperficial.com)
6. Aniston sees irony in her “Break-Up” role (montereyherald.com)
7. Lindsay Lohan Dating Everyone but Brandon Davis (jossip.com)
8. Keanu Reeves opens up: “I’m trying not to be alone so much, And man, it’s a struggle. I want to get married.” 9. Casey Affleck, Summer Phoenix Wed (people.aol.com)
10. A Diamond Binky For Shiloh Nouvel (shoppingblog.com)
First 10 headlines on Digg right now:
1. Dvorak: Our Modern World—Weirder by the Minute
2. Intel Core 2 Duo Blows Away AMD Athlon FX
3. AllofMp3.com Breaks Silence
4. Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router
5. Scientists resolve 60-year-old plutonium questions
6. It’s Hard Out Here For A Gamer
7. Cell-Phone Tracking Parents
8. 6Bone IPv6 Network Shutting Down
9. 24 Hours to stop new copyright law
10. RFID Gains Momentum In Pharmaceuticals
Hmmmmm. Worlds collide. Geeks v. glam. Rose v. Newhouse. This’ll be fun.
June 6th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
They had better start supporting Firefox.
I go to their page with Firefox, and it is blank. I go with IE, there it is.
June 6th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
I was expecting there to be a punch-line following that title. Something about a 2-bit hooker.
June 6th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
Damn, I don’t even know who half the people are in those stories, much less give a crap what they’re doing. Give me science and tech any day over celebrity gossip. If I wanted that brain dead shit I’d watch “Extra” or something (perish the thought!).
June 6th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
[...] Jeff Jarvis points to Lipstick.com, a digg clone for the gossip crowd. Jeff’s says, “if Digg wore high-heels and lipstick.” I bet you it won’t look anything like Lipstick.com.It is horrible design, and it is not glam even by farthest stretch of imagination. “Geeks v. glam. Rose v. Newhouse,” Jeff writes. Geeks and Rose win hands down. [...]
June 6th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
[...] From Lipstick.com, via Jeff Jarvis. What a great link—I love celebrity gossip! Plus, it’s completely legit. Don’t believe me? Check out Claims to Fame by [Professor] Joshua Gamson): Moving from People magazine to publicists’ offices to tours of stars’ homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. In the first major academic work since the early 1940s to seriously analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the often-heard criticisms that today’s heroes have been replaced by pseudoheroes, that notoriety has become detached from merit. He draws on literary and sociological theory, as well as interviews with celebrity-industry workers, to untangle the paradoxical nature of an American popular culture that is both obsessively invested in glamour and fantasy yet also aware of celebrity’s transparency and commercialism.Gamson examines the contemporary dream machine that publicists, tabloid newspapers, journalists, and TV interviewers use to create semi-fictional icons. He finds that celebrity watchers, for whom spotting celebrities becomes a spectator sport akin to watching football or fireworks, glean their own rewards in a game that turns as often on playing with inauthenticity as on identifying with stars.Gamson also looks at the celebritization of politics and the complex questions it poses regarding image and reality. He makes clear that to understand American public culture, we must understand that strange, ubiquitous phenomenon, celebrity. [...]
June 6th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
Dunno if there’s a relaunch or official launch coming, but this has been out for over a month, and it never seemed to pick up all that much during that time. (Very few digg clones have in fact.) It’ll be interesting to see if they can change that.
June 6th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
go to reddit.com and then go to lipstick.com. lipstick.com stole reddit’s layout code. they are a fraud. reddit’s alexa rank is 2,335 and lipstick is 357,679.
June 6th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
update:apparently reddit owns lipstick.com…why they would want to separate it from reddit is beyond me.
June 7th, 2006 at 3:50 am
Brian is absolutely right. Taken from the ‘Help’ section: “reddit is a source for what’s new and popular on the web — personalized for you.” Lipstick may be just easier to remember as a landing domain name. That could explain they didn’t keep it as a subdomain.
June 7th, 2006 at 4:37 am
guys,
reddit provides the functionality. conde nast is the publishing company creating lipstick. nothing mysterious here. it’s like me using wordpress. powered by and all that.
gabe:
what wasn’t known publicly was the parentage.
June 7th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Seems like a weak attempt, but Gabe’s WeSmirch.com is excellent.
June 9th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
You can make your own digg or reddit instantly right now:
http://www.crispynews.com
I’ve created one for conservatives, myself:
http://conservatism.crispynews.com/
July 31st, 2006 at 1:23 am
I use digg.com, blinklist.com, del.icio.us, and wirefan.com..
Thanks
April 25th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Hahaha I use Digg a lot but I only bother with the geeky stuff because otherwise no-one else Diggs it. I have read some good appraisals of different markets for social network sites here. Otherwise it’s quite difficult to find anything with decent women’s interest stuff so thank God for lipstick.com