Coincidentally, this announcement happened today just after I spent some time browsing GizMag’s store, and I noticed it was identical to the LifeHacker store, and the Gizmodo store, and the Laughing Squid store, and the…
I just hadn’t realized until today how quickly Stack Social had spread. And how it was exactly identical on all these sites.
So, suffice to say, because of the happenstance of timing I was also fairly disappointed, though not surprised, that BoingBoing was just yet another Stack Social customer, all of them offering that exact same tiny drone all the damn time.
It makes perfect sense for BB to have a store that it can monetize from, but I hope they’ll recognize that, when their target demographic probably visits 6 or 8 other sites a day which all have the exact same store, the chance of getting custom is much smaller than it would be for some hand-curated store, like a simple continuation of the affliate-link-supported Christmas list that BB has.
