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Future's FileRadar Blips into View

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By Edge Staff

September 10, 2007

Future’s FileRadar gaming download destination takes cues from Digg for a more community-centric experience.

FileRadar.net, a sibling site of Next-Gen, has launched in beta form. Like Digg, users create a relatively simple community profile and submit links, but instead of linking to stories, they link to download sites.

Users can then rate how the link performed—did it get you to the content fast and easy? The link ratings are associated with the user that posts the links, so you can see if JohnDoe30 is proficient at finding good, fast download sites or clogged digital pipes.

Instead of “Diggs,” users can add a “Blip,” keeping with the whole Radar theme. The more blips a file gets, the higher it ranks.

User are ranked by the number of Blips their files receive, quality and performance of their links and number of comments submitted.

There are categories for demos, mods and patches at the site. Files can be sorted by most discussed, by age and alphabetically.

 

Fileradar and Next-Gen.biz are Future websites.