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Newly launched FileRadar.net —the new website from Magazine publisher Future, the media conglomerate responsible for magazines like PC Gamer, Mac|Life, and Maximum PC—puts some extreme Digg-styled social media into the already saturated PC downloads market. Organizing files by Blips (i.e. popularity) won't be the easiest way for file seekers to find what they're looking for. (Isn't searching by topic simpler?) FileRadar's debut follows last month's launch of video sharing with Gloob.TV, an edited list of popular Internet videos. Future has been grasping at straws to compete with sites like CNET's GameSpot and Ziff Davis's 1UP Network by implementing all sorts of Web 2.0 tomfoolery. Future's thinking, apparently, is someone will love it if it's coated in enough Ajax, right? If this launch rate continues, some idea is bound to stick.

(Full disclosure: I write for several of Future's competitors).