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Published: Nov 06, 2008 - 08:05 pm
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News Source: http://nowsourcing.com
Published: Nov 06, 2008 - 08:05 pm
Story Found By: nowsourcing 1296 Days ago
Category: SEM
6 Comments
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I have a feeling many "green" projects will be struggling for cash now, with the credit crisis and a return to cheap gas. When times are tight, most people think with their wallet. Being environmentally-friendly is a luxury when you’re worrying about feeding your family. Everywhere I look recently, I can see these topics disappearing from the political agenda. VCs follow the trends closely. If the topic isn’t hot, these projects will find it much harder to get those cheques written.
Yeah, Hugg has been dead for a while. There is a better alternative though that’s mentioned in the post:http://mindbodygreen.com/
I’d have to imagine care2.com would be interested in the same potential as well. Hugg is still a strong site and valuable to the right group.
I have used all 3: Hugg, Care2 & MindBodyGreen.The problem with Hugg is that there’s nothing much social about it. Nobody posts comments, you can’t add other Huggers, you can’t share stories. And stories with 7-8 quick huggs would make front page. A guy I know once made 10 gmail accounts from a single PC, registered at Hugg 10 times using these addresses, and then submitted a story and Voted for it from all 10 accounts. Unsurprisingly, the story made front page in 10-15 minutes. And their support was pathetic. So frequently, I would see Breast enlargement submissions and similar stuff.In comparison, MindBodyGreen is a bit better. There support is good and all. However, the problem is that they aren’t marketing themselves and aren’t that famous. And their design isn’t as flashy and attractive as should be. Result: You don’t get much traffic even if you get to front page. Also, they have a weird algo. Almost always I see, whenever a frequent user submits a story, it automatically gets 6 votes and comes to the front page, then goes down sometimes. Care2 seems to be the best if you want to socialize. However, the problem with Care2 is that their site is so sticky that one of their users will go to your site, will submit your story, and then, he will copy your whole article, will paste it as the first comment, and all of them will start discussing it on Care2 without bothering to visit your site.
So sad, HUGG was like a green DIGG. They deserve a hug. I want the green web to prosper. It seems that they did not have a lot of traffic. Wish more people had joined the move to a greener world.
I think the design was awful after the buy out from Discovery. The original look was much better. I think if they simply changed the design and made it more appealing it would have taken off.RIP.