hmtk.com— $150M is more money then News Corp wants to pay for Digg. Instead Digg will head into a new round of financing with it's backers.
Oct 25, 2006View in Crawl 4
Chip..."people use is"? I think you mean..."An EXTREMELY tiny and insignifcant number of people use it..."I know, I know..you want to tell me that there are 300,000+ digg users. But have you ever actually checked out the user list. Less than 10,000 of those users have ever really done anything on this site. Probabaly LESS than that check this site more than once a week.The other 300,000 are people who joined once and haven't come back sense, multiple accounts used by cheaters like Daniel Eran, multiple users by people who just forgot theuir old one, etc.I'd love for Digg to do a purge of their users. Basically anyone who hasn't logged in in 3 months, or even 6 months gets an e-mail warning them that they haveto log in some time in the next week to keep their account. After that, delete all abandoned accounts.Get rid of abandoned and multiple accounts and you are down to about 5000-10,000 users. And most of those are once a week or so.Of course, Digg will never do that because it is in their best interests to claim that they have 300,000+ active users.
i dont see a big reason to be happy about.what if Newscorp agreed to the amount specified by Digg?The reason to be sad is that the Digg guys have actually contemplated on selling off to someone like Newscorp. Its a sad fact.
jriley101Oct 25, 2006
In that route Digg will then be an example of Friendster after MySpace came out from nowhere.
Closed AccountOct 26, 2006
Chip..."people use is"? I think you mean..."An EXTREMELY tiny and insignifcant number of people use it..."I know, I know..you want to tell me that there are 300,000+ digg users. But have you ever actually checked out the user list. Less than 10,000 of those users have ever really done anything on this site. Probabaly LESS than that check this site more than once a week.The other 300,000 are people who joined once and haven't come back sense, multiple accounts used by cheaters like Daniel Eran, multiple users by people who just forgot theuir old one, etc.I'd love for Digg to do a purge of their users. Basically anyone who hasn't logged in in 3 months, or even 6 months gets an e-mail warning them that they haveto log in some time in the next week to keep their account. After that, delete all abandoned accounts.Get rid of abandoned and multiple accounts and you are down to about 5000-10,000 users. And most of those are once a week or so.Of course, Digg will never do that because it is in their best interests to claim that they have 300,000+ active users.
xeno439Oct 26, 2006
Digg's traffic is not flat. That is a flat lie. Anyone can see that it is and has been increasing.Here's some proof.<a class="user" href="http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=digg.com">http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=digg.com</a>Slow and steady increases are more powerful than ephemeral trends.
action123Oct 26, 2006
i dont see a big reason to be happy about.what if Newscorp agreed to the amount specified by Digg?The reason to be sad is that the Digg guys have actually contemplated on selling off to someone like Newscorp. Its a sad fact.
amigiacOct 26, 2006
@dustkoI agree totally, if this site falls into the hands of Murdoch I'll look elsewhere for news without hesitation.
hmtksteveOct 26, 2006Submitter
@chazzy,That is the problem with Digg.The benefits of Digg go more towards the site being linked then Digg itself!
Closed AccountOct 26, 2006
For a good laugh turn off your ad blocking. Apparently Google is confusing "dig" with "digg" and displaying tons of excavation ads!
msturgillOct 26, 2006
There are much crazier people on MySpace.