What is Digg?90 Comments
- anagoge, on 04/26/2008, -2/+59so·bri·quet
n.
1. An affectionate or humorous nickname.
2. An assumed name.
Because I didn't know what it meant either. - inactive, on 04/26/2008, -2/+47Hey look at me I got a Myspace/Facebook/Twitter/Digg account. You want to see all my pictures of me and my family? Do you want to know the exciting life im pretending to have when I take pictures when I'm pretending to do something exciting? Let me log on to my twitter account so you will know what I'm doing all the time minute to minute in real time. I'm so popular.
- toxicityj, on 04/26/2008, -4/+43ibeg to diffr
- lacreme, on 04/26/2008, -4/+37All the glossy Web 2.0 logos and cute puns are getting a bit nauseating.
- itsinmyeyes, on 04/26/2008, -2/+23What the ***** are you talking about?
- winmywii, on 04/26/2008, -2/+17How am I seeing this, I thought I banned you?
- fLUx1337, on 04/26/2008, -5/+19All web developers/designers who think Web 2.0 means glossy logos/buttons, massive BETA signs, social networking, video sharing (other than porn ;) or any word with a "r" stuck on the endr is a n00b, do not employ them for work, and do not take advice from them.
Web 2.0 is intuative UIs which flow. Which have a use and display incoming data in a way which is helpful and meaningful to the user. And of course, have a nice API. Any information on a site can be easily used by other sites to combine with other data, everything syncs and is open.
That's my understanding of it all, and its what I try to accomplish... - B3000, on 04/26/2008, -1/+13Web 2.0 actually means "Hey, so what if you went broke investing in the web back in the 90's?!?! This is new and totally different - IT'S WEB 2.0!!! See it's not the same at all! Now give me your money."
- SlvrEagle23, on 04/26/2008, -1/+10My buddy Frank saw me at the grocery store a few days ago and told me about this dilemma he was having. His wife kept insisting that he should get rid of the awful siding that had plagued the aesthetic appeal of his house for years, but he couldn't decide what to replace it with. I asked him what look he was going for and suggested a few alternatives. He said, "I'll think about it. Stop by my house in a few days and you can see for yourself which one I choose."
A few days later, I decided to take the back road home from work, and drove by Frank's house. I noticed his house looked different, then I realized that he had made his decision. I saw Frank out in the lawn, so I rolled down my window and yelled, "SOBRIQUET?!" - painperdu, on 04/26/2008, -1/+10"Silicon Valley survived the Internet bubble . . ."
Say what? It was called the "dot com" bubble. Internet bubble? The Internet was never on the bubble. In fact, the Internet is still growing! - pedepy, on 04/26/2008, -2/+11already in beta
- HueytheFreeman, on 04/26/2008, -0/+8♫
- lcmatt, on 04/26/2008, -1/+9Good hopefully Digg will remove the 16 javascript files which causes browsers to stall and then choose a minimalistic design.
- Forky, on 04/26/2008, -0/+8Many of us who browse Digg do not have English as our first language.
How about you give that a thought before calling anagoge a "dumbass" for helping us out?
edit punctuation. - oMeSSiaHo, on 04/26/2008, -1/+8Because EVERYONE already knows that! Duh!
- tbeseda, on 04/26/2008, -1/+8it's all nothing but practice for web developers. They get paid a ton by investors to copy something, without any liability when it isn't used and meets the deadpool.
- SpykerSpeed, on 04/26/2008, -1/+7If you had told me about the wonders of Digg and Twitter and Facebook etc. 8 years ago, I would have been supremely underwhelmed. Something big has got to change about the internet before I get excited again - in the meantime, I'm off to go pitch an idea for a site to a bunch of VC's. I'll sell it by next Thursday and live off the interest for the rest of my life.
- mkling176, on 04/26/2008, -1/+7wtf?
- pedepy, on 04/26/2008, -1/+6spot on ... ill puke if i see another pownce happen. this market's saturated and its time to opt-out.
- regeya, on 04/26/2008, -0/+5The world doesn't need another news aggregator, either.
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -0/+5And smaller user bases, defeating the point
- fluffyturtle, on 04/26/2008, -2/+6It should have never been picked up, websites have always followed a similar trend in layout and design. Just because the buttons are shiny or something looks clean doesn't increment the version of the friggin web.
As for the type of content or the way the content is manipulated by users, sure, sites like digg started doing something a little different in that regard. Never before was it taken to that extent but slashdot has been around for a while folks, newsgroups since forever and they ALL share the same 'social networking' ideals. So even in this context the web wasn't incremented version wise. - jtbandes, on 04/26/2008, -2/+6Whose what you try to accomplish?
- B3000, on 04/26/2008, -1/+5+
- toomuchpete, on 04/26/2008, -1/+5"Colors, shapes, and motion don't pass well to radio. Keep it to sounds... the good ol' way."
- annalaurab, on 04/26/2008, -0/+4I tend to agree. There are already tons of web 2.0 applets. So many I don't know how anybody can possibly use them all.
- robbie32, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4Would you rather go back to the Windows 98 look?
- Jakerius, on 04/27/2008, -1/+4"Web 2.0 is intuative UIs which flow."
Uhh, no. That's called good design practices. - binaryloop, on 04/27/2008, -0/+3Dugg up for using a word I'd never heard before. I learn something new everyday.
- kipmartin, on 04/26/2008, -2/+5your mom is calling--its time for supper. password up and get upstairs and grab some fish sticks dude!
- drgmdp, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3ABOUT TIME
- anagoge, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3It took me a few reads, but that was quite funny.
- pedepy, on 04/26/2008, -1/+4good to see that sects are making a come back ...
- Zalyster, on 04/26/2008, -0/+2I love Deadpool. Best comic book character, ever.
- joeanon, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2What does the recession have to do with anything.
History shows entertainment consumption goes UP... not down during recessions.
Look at game console sales... they are up 57%. Game consoles and surfing the internet is DIRT CHEAP compared to seeing a movie or going out to eat.
People are staying home, using the internet, watching TV and playing games more because they have less money to go out.
IT does mean they just sit home adjusting their thermostat all day to save energy. They still have to find something to do, it just has to be cost effective.
There is almost nothing as cheap and versatile as the internet. So, it only makes sense these service will boom and the recession will only help.
It's not as if you need high bandwidth to use a social networking site, so the cost are minimal.
I say... bittorrent should make a site that piggybacks on the torrent clients making it decentralized and not easily bought out by corporate powers looking to data mine and mass advertise. - fluffyturtle, on 04/27/2008, -1/+3"Web 2.0 == common sense in design"
What in the world are you talking about. You are one of those people who go to a coffee shop and order some 80 syllable drink that is nothing more than coffee and think it’s different because it has a different name.
Common sense is an oxymoron. People have been trying to design 'well' since forever and failing miserably a lot of the time even today. Nothing has really changed, ever since more and more people have had access to the internet there has been an explosion in traffic and with it we have evolved from a website with nothing more than black text on a white background.
There are cases of prior art as well, we didn’t call that web 2.0 back then because why?
Again, it is downright impossible to deny the logic of the situation. 2.0 doesn’t even technically do anything different from what some sites were doing probably 10+ years ago. Even if you do consider the sites now doing something substantially different you CAN’T claim 2.0 status because technically they, if anyone, would be considered 2.0 because they were already different from earlier sites in that regard. Though that is a downhill slide because blah blah blah the site before etc etc so there is no real versioning here.
Web 2.0 is a phrase coined by clueless people, it’s equivalent to the internet is a series of tubes comment. - schnikies79, on 04/26/2008, -1/+3=
- voyvf, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2The "internet dongs" ascii art at the end made that slideshow worth the 20 seconds that it wasted.
- mlavergn, on 04/26/2008, -4/+6Web 2.0 == AJAX ... that's it ... that's all ... no matter what anybody says. AJAX was not around at the beginning of the web, but XMLHttpRequest, the core of all things AJAX, has been around in non-beta form since 1999. The defining characteristic of Web 2.0 being that content could be updated without a full page refresh (frames don't count) and it was a breakthrough in web application architecture. There was a way to cheat prior to XMLHttpRequest by leveraging an img tag or a hidden frame which let you do something similar, though it was a hell of a lot less elegant. On that note, peering into my sobriquet crystal ball, I think offline web apps will become what will be Web 3.0. Stuff like AIR, Silverlight (please god NO!), and XUL. I hope that XUL wins, but it's been around for a long time and doesn't have a hell of a lot of traction. Of the three, I think AIR will win out, mostly because it's cross platform and based on Flash which is widely used.
- jab9990, on 04/26/2008, -2/+4Someone should tell this guy about 'biting the hand that feeds you'. Nobody would be reading this crap right now without digg.
- tcardone05, on 04/26/2008, -1/+3http://h-master.net/web2.0/
- jasalo, on 04/26/2008, -0/+2How many profiles and accounts should I have to be a Web 2.0 guy? Do I need aggregators?
- J0415, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2☻
Black guy always wins. - inactive, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Very few of these companies have made money. It will be the dotcom crash all over again. Its coming.
- JCPahl, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1Means approximately "nickname."
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -1/+2vagina
- MacTyler, on 04/26/2008, -1/+2I see what you did there...
...it just wasn't funny - SuperRoach, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1I remember even the google spokes person a while back who was jokingly asked about that. His response was coy, in that he doesn't see the term being a solid "ok we are web 3.0 now", but more a transition of a truely semantic web, one that can be viewed anywhere, with content that can be repurposed and seen by anyone.
- djJohnnyG, on 04/26/2008, -1/+2fLUx1337 7 mins ago: "I guess there will never be a clear definition of what "Web 2.0" acctully means, but personally I don't think its any one thing, nor is it anything set in stone"
fLUx1337 1hr ago: "Web 2.0 is intuative UIs which flow"
I love consistency - voyvf, on 04/27/2008, -1/+2Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was what the media attribute of the link tag was for.
You know, like media="screen", or media="print"
Those smarmy W3C folks might just know what they're doing... (: -
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