I subscribed to TSS and InfoQ to read on news touching the world of Java. Surprisingly it seems that InfoQ isn't taking off much, at least the number of comments is very low compare to what's on TSS.
TSS sure exists for a much longer time, actually the guy behind infoQ (Floyd Marinescu) was the creator of TSS. But i don't think that's the only reason.
I feel like InfoQ takes more time to release news (See the announcement of JBoss EAP, 2 months after the official PR) but also seems to avoid the trap of doing wrong or biased announcements like it happened on TSS. At the end, i have the feeling that TSS is mostly looking for the scoop, the rumors that people are eager to read, while InfoQ seems to be looking for reliable information, sure it takes more time.
To me, TSS is the People magazine of Java while InfoQ is a more serious newspaper. Both are entertaining to read and are worth looking at. It's also fun to read at comments in TSS, it's always the same 10 people arguing about the same old things.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
TSS vs InfoQ
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Hi Thomas, thanks for the kind words. About InfoQ growth, it seems that comments have not caught up to our general site growth. We had 172,000 unique visitors in the month of July. We are in the top 2K most influential sites on the net as rated by incoming blog links by technorati, and we were also the #6 most linked site by programming.reddit.com.
So the site is growing quite fast!. :)
Congrats for making such successful info sites !
Having remembered TSS in the early days and a current user of InfoQ I would say that InfoQ is more 'authorative' in their news coverage where TSS is more like Digg. Not that it is a bad thing, but like Digg I think that is what ultimately lead me to visit TSS less and less over the years.
To be open, I used to work for the company that originally created TSS (and Floyed put me in touch with them at the time). When I came across InfoQ I wasn't aware of Floyd's involvement, but I was glad to see it. He knows his stuff.
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