What is Digg?120 Comments
- subsisgood, on 10/12/2007, -2/+102"Dad?"
- hbweb500, on 10/12/2007, -1/+90Might be kind of awkward when browsing porn.
- synystar, on 10/12/2007, -8/+61Here's a mnemonic for you: "me dumb...meeee duuuumb" That should help.
- Wailord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16http://duggmirror.com/software/Remember_the_Name_Me_dium/
Yes, I chose to use the full URL... - fugazi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Yes lets do something that involves people and make it invite only. Brilliant!
- dgritsko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15http://me.dium.com/from/f21b184
There's a valid invite link for ya. - RandomHugs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"I go to a site for it's content not to chat with random people."
1. Commenting counts as chatting.
2. I'm a random person. - edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Technically, this must monitor your browsing habits and transmit them to some sort of central server in order to work.
Isn't this the kind of tracking we usually avoid? - jazbek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I used to use this firefox plugin that did pretty much the same thing, called Peeko - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1825/
The extension created a channel for each website that was browsed, and you'd join the channel for the site when you went to any website. It was lame because no one else had the plugin installed. I saw other people on it a few times... but I think I only saw someone say anything once, because usually no one had any reason to talk to each other. It might be cool on sites that have heated discussions, like digg (then again, the chatrooms might get really stupid).. but it's certainly not going to change the web.
Peeko isn't invite only if you want to try it. - jimrooney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Web 1.0 called... it wants it's technology back.
But hey... let me tell you about this revolutionary technology that's sure to change the web... it's called "server push" - pruppert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I've tried that before. There was never anyone on. And besides, I found out I didn't want to talk to other people anyway. I go to a site for it's content not to chat with random people.
- Kimbal, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Hey guys.
I'm with Me.dium.
Sorry for the invite only. We're launching on Tuesday, so this blog article was a surprise to us.
For anyone who wants in, please use the link below and you should get in no problem.
http://me.dium.com/from/22fc2
On comments that we're onsite chat, have a look at Me.dium and see if you still think that's the case. There is a chat functionality, but the key value we're providing is showing you the people out there doing the same things you are (on different sites, across the internet). You can reach out to them through chat, or you can follow the crowds, or you can just use it to get recommendations based on what other people like you are doing right now.
Hope you enjoy it.
Kimbal - Nickatnite101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Not down, Dugg to death
- invinciblechunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Brogspam *^_^*
- NikZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Just because he submitted the article, doesn't mean he can't have found it by surprise in the first place and *then* submitted it. Or it's possible that the promotion of this article was a surprise.
*shrug* Just playing diplomat. - Kimbal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Hi Highfinance.
Sorry if it's not appropriate to Digg an article on your own company. I was not aware of that.
That being said, I am not responsible for the other Diggs that came after that.
Kimbal - wierdaaron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7All you have to do is replace the word "digg" in the URL of this very page with "duggmirror".
Anyway, this whole "chat with people who are at the same site as you" thing has been going on since the dotcom era and it's never really caught on, perhaps for good reason. IRC and digg before comment voting should prove that most people on the internet are idiots and shouldn't be communicated with. - Ulvund, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The internet has chat now ?
- HullCrushDepth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6If anyone needs an invite link:
http://me.dium.com/from/1970adc2 - RonaldLewis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You can disable URL sharing for those moments.
- eizooo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6hmm ... feels like digg was gamed. I don't see why this came to the front page.
- appletalk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I was thinking exactly the same.. Imagine all the possibilities you have with this plugin.
When you're visiting a site, someone can recommend you a better one, or help you find something you can't..
It'll definitely change the way we use the internet. - tcquad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And, if they decide to cap the number of people each account can invite, you can also use
http://me.dium.com/jabber/
That's the backdoor I used. - fikle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Uh, didn't ICQ do this about 10 years ago? This isn't new.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Post your screen names here.
Mine's royall - whisperedlie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5great. A/S/L... got pix?
- slagmacg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It detects secure sites and disables all sharing while you're on them. You can also turn it off with the click of a button.
- kyote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3oh is this IRC??? that brings back memories.
- Dylan47, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4down?
- Kimbal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Sorry guys.
We really were not meant to open it up for a few days. The server choked on us.
it'll be back up soon.
Thanks to everyone who enjoyed it.
Kimbal - RonaldLewis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3On second thought, if this is the company's CEO, word of advice:
Have other people digg articles related to Me.dium. - nihility, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Probably not, but since two people already posted direct links to invites you wont get dugg up either.
- sobriquet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3thanks dgritsko.
- treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4One thing that comes to mind: breach of privacy
Sure it would be cool for some things. But if random people (or friends) can see exactly what sites you're on, then that would just be creepy. - rpdillon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He said the blog article was a surprise, not its submission to Digg.
- Phoenix99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Aww.. And i was having a great conversation with myself this whole time.. It was getting real introspective on there.
- Ramtech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5BTW dont bother signing up.. as they have invite only right now and are still in Beta...
=======================================================================
Thank you for your interest in Me.dium. We sincerely appreciate your
desire to participate.
Me.dium is currently conducting an invitation only Private Beta
release.
We have your email on file and look forward to inviting you to our
general availability launch this winter. In the meantime, we will do
our
best to keep you updated on our progress and any big news.
If you would like to be taken off the Me.dium invitation list, please
respond to this email with the word 'remove' in the subject line and
we
will delete your email address from our mailing lists.
Again, thank you for interest and patience. We look forward to
inviting
you to try Me.dium in the near future.
Sincerely,
The Me.dium Team
http://me.dium.com/medium_registration/welcome
========================================================== - HeyItsJeremy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6What? The blog article was a surprise to you? You're the one that submitted the article link to Digg, you're name is right at the top of the screen!
- Legolover64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I met one of the ten or so guys developing this a while ago - glad to see they're getting publicity!
- Phoenix99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The system.. is down..
- sobriquet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You should have joined the discussion we were having on there then. Pretty sure that counts as interaction.
- Quiplash, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Aha:
"Submitted by clarkembree on January 27, 2007 - 2:11pm.
From Kimbal on Digg.com - http://www.digg.com/software/Remember_the_Name_Me_dium
~4pm Eastern time
"Sorry guys.
We really were not meant to open it up for a few days. The server choked on us.
it'll be back up soon.
Thanks to everyone who enjoyed it.
Kimbal"
from http://me.dium.com/node/349 - xenubaba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2this is ***** stupid. Uninstall
- ZeonZumDeikun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Username: zeonzumdeikun
- Kimbal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Hey Highfinance.
Sorry you didn't like Me.dium. Hopefully we can change your mind over time.
On the surprise, I've digged quite a few articles in the past about Me.dium. None of them came close to this one (I believe the last one got to 10 Diggs).
When I came on and saw 180 diggs within 18 hours, that was the surprise. Sorry for the confusion.
Kimbal - ScottMaximus1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's an extension, it doesn't work on anything but Firefox.
- garugaga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1an IE7 version is in development.
- synystar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3You signed up 87 accounts with all top 100 diggers? So you are a dumbass AND you think you've accomplished something? Yay you!
- jamesey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1jamesey is my username
- erikpemberton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is all well and good, but as someone else mentioned earlier, the "social" internet's great fallacy is that not one single person wants to be completely transparent with what they do online. Often times people use the internet as an escape or a way to be "themselves" since it is far easier to have a personality online than it is in real life. The last thing that "social media" should stand for is ToughJock99's devious gay porn browsing history or - as nobody else seems to have thought about - a potential portal to spy on what you're doing. What makes you think the MPAA/RIAA/etc. wouldn't be tracking users to find out what they're doing, assuming something like this broke huge like MySpace?
Let alone the security risks of something like this. One exploit could potentially bring down an entire corporate network - assuming something like this was adopted on a larger scale. Messenger and AIM exploits have done that before, and those programs are more compartmentalized - on proprietary protocols with proprietary methods of communication. This extension plugs into Firefox, which means that any traffic on port 80 would potentially be exposed (or could serve as a point of attack). That's preciselly why I ran the ***** away from AllPeers after a few hours of poking around with it.
Face it folks, not a single one of you wants to be that transparent with your life. If so, everyone's user name would be their real name and they would digg all the stories they like, even if it made them look bad. -
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