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- egbert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40So my web page should have lots of flash no real substance.
- cheez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Kevin Rose, with his hit new single, "so, here's the deal"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27What he describes actually sound similar to the Digg model, link to loads of other sites, they realise they're getting traffic from you, and reciprocate (digg this! type buttons on their websites)
Let's just hope Kevin never tries to launch a singing career off the back of it - titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Hmm, so she is a female version of a social bookmarking site?
- e3boy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15summed up in one sentence:
"The most valuable commodity today is attention." - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Someone tell me how this is programming?
- MicroBerto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16As ridiculous as it is, he makes some great points. +1 Digg for sure.
"Paris Hilton is a platform" - i love it! She has absolutely no substance on her own, but can really help others succeed -- which in turn makes her succeed.
How some people come up with this type of stuff is beyond me. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16he is dead right, although i don't think she's done this on purpose, she's not bright enough to.
my favourite quote "Because she’s actually a platform. Like Digg and YouTube."
***** A, i'd mount that platform. i'd do it just to say i had. - floppypond, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Dugg for the humor of the concept.
I'll keep it in mind for my next redesign. - carbonetc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Holy crap, she finally has a use!
- cfsporn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+101 million dirty jokes cross my mind about bookmarking her sites.
- zengonzo, on 10/12/2007, -15/+24 So .. you think she's hot? But Americans like her because she's a stupid attention whore.
So why is it that you think she's hot?
I think she is like a vacuous stickbug. And I have never once wanted to ***** a vacuous stickbug. Not once. - treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10So good web design involves putting paris hilton sex videos on your site?
:D - Arkonnan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6By definition, link farms are "walking billboards" in the same way Paris Hilton is. That doesn't mean they are popular and it doesn't guarantee clicks or return visits. A website needs quality content to keep people coming back. Dropping names online doesn't guarantee a fan following.
- rgremill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Don't forget "Branding". Paris Hilton is a clever name. Now she's a brand just like Trump, with better hair.
- divergentdave, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Agreed, this story would be better under Design.
Dugg nonetheless. - NickDouglas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4To be fair, maybe it DOES describe Digg. Digg is a carefully planned platform for carrying other people's work. So is Paris. Granted, Digg's planning is elegant programming with elegant scalability. Paris's planning is a well-paid makeup artist and a better-paid plastic surgeon. Still, I appreciate the parallel.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4mount -o ro -t auto digg.com:/www/ /media/digg
- virtualball, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Hehe I'd mount Digg too!
(oh and Paris I guess) - vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You haven't really sold out until you have linked to everything twice. You know, like slashdot.
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Kevin: So Paris, this is the new beta of digg v4...what do you think?
Paris: That's hott. - Dotnetsky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This isn't about web development. Its about marketing. The submitter understands one thing well; you can combine kewords ("Web Development" and "Paris Hilton") and come up with good key phrases that cause clicks.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You'd be surprised at how "bright" some of the people in hollywood actually are when it comes to self promotion.
I don't think it takes too many brains, but I'm frequently surprised myself when I see things Headlines like "Pam & Tommy Back together" followed up with "Pam: Well Tommy's new show is coming out and I guess he needed the publicity"
Thats two (2) articles in just about every newspaper, gossip column & tabloid in the world, and thats even when the publicity is blatant and cynical.
This sort of publicity, money *cannot* buy. - bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Content - Sexy imagery
Pretty vacuous content for sure, but if you ever try and promote something, you can use the trickiest technology, the most brilliant creative, and people will still prefer to watch sexy women. - or any women... hell they'll settle on Janet Jackson's nipple.
She's really the perfect medium. Come for the imagery, stay for the advertising. - virtualball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Jessica Simpson did the same thing when she acted stupid and captured the hearts of millions. Also the nice ass and ***** might've helped! ;)
- BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8If you cant think of a good or humours comment then dont comment at all. Why say something if you have nothing to say.
- p0ss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if anyone else noticed the link to "australian paris" in the comments, i just realised there are more "no" votes than overall page views, the whole aussie paris thing looks like a fake.
- xr56n44, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2paris hilton is the personification of the reason why the USA is hated so vehemently
- tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I wouldn't bookmark her site with Hitler's computer.
- SuburbanDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The fact that there are (at the moment) 50 comments and 728 diggs pretty well proves his point. We clicked because we saw the name Paris Hilton. Some because we think she's hot, others because we were wondering what on earth someone as annoying as her has to do with web development. We clicked because we love her, we clicked because we hate her. Either way, we clicked, and that's the whole point.
- joaob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just wasted 20 minutes of my life reading that garbage.
- Dracos, on 10/12/2007, -8/+10A. Paris Hilton is _not_ hot. Nor is she even moderately attractive.
B. Paris Hilton is not famous because she name drops. She is famaous because she's a dumb, slutty blonde girl with family money. Hollywood respects money, not intelligence or virtue.
C. By extension of B, Paris Hilton has no lesson for web designers. If she had, the lesson would be "just get people to your site, content doesn't matter". Everyone with real skill as a developer knows this isn't true.
D. Paris Hilton is not a platform. She's a gimmick, like the old "punch the monkey" java banners.
Marking lame. - shaun1018, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There are already far too many shallow and useless designs on the internet
- sharph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2has anyone realized the irony of what made this webpage so popular? :)
at what point does linking to everything become selling out? - gypsyjoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4***** you Merv, you are a spammer.
- Xizer, on 10/12/2007, -9/+10Sharp knees.
- MonkeyMonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aw, geez. So she's like the Million Dollar Webpage...but would a million pixels actually fit on her?
- outreach417, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Actually, your webpage should just contain the words "Paris Hilton" ... and perhaps Lindsay Lohan and Hillary Duff. Check the Facebook connections between Paris Hilton and Project417... unconfirmed rumours or web marketing ... ?
- tommorris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't. I clicked it because my friends dugg the story. I dugg it because it was moderately interesting.
- bridbeun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just reciently a photo of Paris came up on to my screen and my computer got the herpes.
- j0c1f3r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"paris is famous cus her parents are. because she has money. because she is hot. plus she's hot."
prolly all an act......and its working.....sure, not on you or us.....but little girls love her and it sells.....and thats what makes the money....and thats what counts..... - konradk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1dude, don't give me that hypocrite crap, if you had the chance, you would screw her, make no mistake about it..
wait ... you're not a chick are you? - briggsb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Of course her version of Linux should be mentioned...
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/08/paris-hilton-tinkerbell-linux.html - tommorris, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1joaob: A blog entry with 371 words and seven pictures took you 20 minutes to read. You sound like you've got some big problems if that is the case - it took me about a minute to read. I'm sure if you Google for 'speed reading', you might be able to increase your reading rate beyond 18 words per minute.
- lewhich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Will she be agile dev't or the regular stone tablets & waterfalls?
- Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Paris Hilton is famous because she name drops In-N-Out burger? wtf??
- jbritton, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Absolutely retarded. I feel dumber for having read it. No digg.
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