What is Digg?110 Comments
- pixelnet, on 11/08/2007, -1/+41I hope that's an island to the far right of the world map and not some lonely Digger on a raft.
Dugg :) great useless information. - coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9this link is more digg-specific: http://blog.thedruid.co.uk/2006/02/21/digg-chooses-firefox-and-windows/
Firefox: 64%
IE: 18.9%
Safari: 8.5%
Opera: 3.2%
Mozilla: 1.9%
Unknown: 1.5%
Camino: 0.8%
Konqueror: 0.3%
Netscape: 0.2%
NetNewsWire: 0.1%
Other: 0.1% - iupetre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Who is the one poor guy in the middle of Siberia? He's like "I'm freezing my ass off, but digg anyway..."
- insidesource, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This is a picture of what London looks like now in real time in Google Maps:
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4672/googlelondon2xp.jpg - 7diesel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6couldn't reach the site so here's the mirror:
http://www.duggmirror.com/software/Digg_Traffic_Plotted_On_Google_Maps_(Real-Time)/
sweden seems to be well-represented. yay! - T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Different subdomain (forums. so not just Digg traffic) on that domain:
IE: 53.48%
FF: 39.99%
Opera: 2.36%
Mozilla: 0.68%
Netscape: 0.51%
Camino: 0.16%
Etc. - quokkapox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6We want browser statistics!!!1! The digg traffic to a popular article on a private server can be analyzed and the relative browser popularity can be posted. Let's hear it.
- T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Haha yeah, I guess it falls in that 'great but otherwise useless' category. Unless you're actually going to use it for marketing purposes.
Should have said that the images on that page aren't real-time but the tool used to create them (free to use) is in fact doing it real-time. Here's a live map if anyone is interested: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/usermap.php - timan72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5> dutch understand english, germans are generally poor at languages
Compared to whom? US people? - T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Now it hit the homepage, keep an eye out on the live version here:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/geovisitors/
Let's see how it fills up and whether there's a clear 'Wave' according to timezones not asleep... - T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yes it's real. I'm in London myself and we see that everywhere. We also have interactive ads on busses based on where it drives...
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/metroline-adsense-3611.jpg - PRESS_00, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8This proves how we shouldn't make digg.com us-centric.Show units in both imperial and metric forms, don't be lazy!
- retral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was pretty sure when I saw the title of this story that it would be dead when I click it. These kind of things easily bring a server to its knees with a lot of traffic. :x
- Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Heh, nice follow-up to a frontpage digg. About the only way to get a regular audience, as diggers are notorious for hosing your server then leaving forever!
- T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Not a joke:
http://yigg.de/ - That's apparently where they hang out... - MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Not everyone clicks on every link. Those statistics could indicate any number of things. For example, maybe people who use Firefox are more likely to read the article, rather than just the summary. Or, perhaps, the article was of greater interest to people who also use Firefox. To get real statistics, we'd have to actually go straight to the source (digg.com).
- dasch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think the reason why France and Germany are under-represented is the fact that the populations of those countries are not as fluent in English as, say, the Dutch are.
Even if you go to a high-end shop in Paris you can't expect the people to speak English -- happened to me in a Levi's store!
note: I'm not from an English-speaking country; I'm not an American whining about the fact that not everyone in this world speaks the same language he does. - T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wrong. There's an image of Europe as well as a 'View Option' tp focus on Europe on the live feed. Open your eyes before you open your mouth next time.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"I'm a boy... from San Diego, CA (USA). And I don't really have a whole lot else to say about myself."
Good to see he has a blog. - T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not sure that's true although we (I'm Dutch) do rock at foreign languages. I though maybe tweakers.net crows went to Digg en masse?
- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This is my observation as an American who has visited Holland and the area in Germany where Platt-Deutsch is spoken for low german. People in that area are much better at speaking english than in other areas of Germany and even mainland Europe. My theory is that their native tounge is much closer to english than most, so it just makes sense to them. I've found that if you can read and comprehend english and german, you can get along in Holland by making assumptions about a blend of the two.
It's either that or most Germans go to yigg.com instead of digg. Just my 2 cents. - graywh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have to 2nd the yigg.com comment.
- Lut3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Look at the division of the us. You can really tell where computers aren't as important in everyday life...*yet*
- cazamova, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2he meant http://yigg.de , not .com . but digg.com is *much* better, thats why i'm here :)
- T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4But 99% of that traffic is Digg so it's significant enough to call it just that.
- acherion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Germans arent visiting digg because they are too busy posting articles to the digg ripoff, yigg :)
- witooo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3XD Great and useless, yea. However, its not digg.com traffic. its www.digitalpoint.com traffic
From the web:
"...check out what the maps look like for visitors to this blog in the last 24 hours... It's crazy how much traffic digg can bring you in a short amount of time."
"Currently showing the location of visitors to www.digitalpoint.com/~shawn in the last 24 hours." - dupswapdrop, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I see digg people.
- kimos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone else notice the picture of the really scary cat on the right hand side? :P
- szelij, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So who're the lone people surfing Digg off Madagascar? And very few people in Africa tunes in here...Nice to see London dominates everyone else though. :P
- T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's why the owner of the blog just spent 60 grand+ on a cluster of Dell servers: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/donate.html (may also be slow...)
- madmack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hah ! one dot over Qatar, that's me.. feels good to able to locate ur self !
- jmccorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Jan Devries" tells me that Dutch net users are all over the place these days. It is true.
- Junto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2From what I've experienced in Holland, the "fact" that all Dutch speak English is a fallacy - in Amsterdam that maybe true, but outside, even in Den Haag, it was much less prevalent. I'm British and living in Germany, and the vast majority of young German people seem to speak English at an acceptable level (i.e. I can understand them). The main difference between the two countries (apart from the fact that they don't seem to like each other) is that the Germans have almost all television shows dubbed into German (an awful practice) and the Dutch less so. I find that as a Brit living here, many Germans like to practice their English with me. It helps me, because my German is awful. From personal experience, this trait for strong English language skills is much less consistent in the older generation of Germans.
I think that if you want to look at a European nation with an awful policy to language learning, look no further than the UK. We have an awful arrogance when it comes to our English language abroad.
This EU study is quite interesting if not slightly out of date: http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/lang/languages/baroexe.pdf - Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'll bookmark this and come back after it rises from the digg grave.
- Sagan1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Totally agree with lane.montgomery about "making assumptions about a blend of the two". And I'm from Germany. And since I'm from Bremen, and you have to know at least some bascis about Platt-Deutsch here, I can understand even better. But only when reading dutch, it's completely hopeless when trying to listen to it.
There is another reason why there are so many dutch people, and so few from other countries: A lot of people live in the Netherlands. Netherlands has almost 4 times the population density of France. (390 people per km² as opposed to 110 per km² (USA: 31 per km²))
But I agree that Dutch people speak better english than Germans or French, and that's probably the main reason. - GhostCrab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Give 'em 5 more years, they're always a little behind the times.
- kimos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yup. I see my dot on there, north of the states... :P
- T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3He's going to stab me though...
- T0PS3O, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Look around, it's posted on this very page numerous times now...
- digitalpoint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You don't have to click the link... just visit the site.
- flyersa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1for the yigg.de comment.
There arent this many people there, yigg.de got only 700+ registered users, digg (and yigg too) just not this popular in germany. The most german guys hang out at heise.de a normal newspage for tech news. Applications like digg for news are not this popular in germany and most guys just read the english ones then.
But again for yigg.de, well started as a simple digg rip off it got his own flavour now formed by his users. What i like and want to see at digg.com is their treebrowser for related content (http://yigg.de/tb.php) you click a article link posted there and see related articles from yigg , german newspages and german blogs. And every time you click again all content is refreshed based on the click information and shows again related stuff... thats cool stuff. - noniksayang01, on 02/18/2009, -0/+1Yes, I can see this ....
http://www.pregnancy-stages.info/
http://hitsfavouritemusic.blogspot.com/
http://cookingadventures73.blogspot.com/
http://pregnancystages73.blogspot.com/
http://system-teeth-whitening.blogspot.com/ - digitalpoint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It means you are in Beirut.
- 1ivewire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The sun never sets on digg.com.
- baronvonrolo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can we find that one Lithuanian!! WHO ARE YOU??? Please, step forwards, and be proud.
- jla1987, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm from Missouri. Looks like there's a lot of Missourians on digg. :)
- middleman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well im glad im not the only one in Central New York that Digg's.
- Splitt3rxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There are actually quite a few in oregon.
- Bobafettjm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, there are actually others here on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska.
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