YiGG

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YiGG.de
legal form GmbH
founding 2006
Seat Kulmbach , Germany
management Feulner, Stefan (managing director)
Website www.yigg.de

YiGG was a German-speaking social news community and was functionally and structurally based on the American model Digg . The YiGG logo was a hamster that was christened “Marvin” by the community .

history

The news community YiGG was founded on January 1st, 2006 by Enrico Kern and Christian Volmering. Michael Reuter and Lawrence Nell joined the team in early 2007. YiGG replaced the founders' five-year-old news portal Th! NkNerd . YiGG is a plagiarism of the American service Digg . At first, YiGG was even called Digg by the founders and could be reached under the domain digg.de. The name was changed for legal reasons.

In 2007, Jobpilot founder Roland Metzger made a financial contribution to the operating company.

In September 2008 YiGG counted 30,000 registered users and had a reach of 162,760 unique users who generated 505,142 page impressions (as of IVW May 2010.)

At the beginning of March 2014, YiGG was discontinued by the operators for lack of success and the site was initially taken offline and then put back online in July 2014. The platform positioned itself as a magazine for viral content.

Yigg.de has been offline since March 2017.

Offer and functions

After registration (at least 18 years of age) you could receive or rate messages as "Yigger", upload your own messages or point out links to external news offers. Messages were to be understood as text, sound, image and video media.

The content was rated on a grassroots basis on the basis of an internal rating system in which rating points were awarded both directly through click rating and commentary and indirectly through the reception of the content. The resulting hierarchy of the popularity of any content created the agenda for the main page of YiGG. New entries found their way into the interactive offer via the waiting list and were either rated positively by the users or deleted after 24 hours at the latest. In principle, YiGG functioned as a news exchange that was constantly updated by its users.

With the registration, one undertook to follow the internal guidelines of YiGG. The content was not checked before publication. In the terms of use, YiGG distanced itself from the content of external links and from the control of any copyrights. The only control was thus the registered users and their usage behavior. In the event of violations, YiGG nevertheless retained the right to impose sanctions.

swell

  1. ↑ Jens Ihlenfeld: Cash injection for Yigg. In: golem.de. June 1, 2007, accessed January 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: IVW Online usage data May 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / ausweisung.ivw-online.de
  3. ↑ Final end for YiGG

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