What is Digg?42 Comments
- lordtyros, on 10/10/2007, -3/+82"OK, not really."
I'm going to digg this. Ok, not really. Buried. - apolloae, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24No...stop, seriously. You cannot make a story and put it on digg with an absolutely 100% known false, misleading title. With a title such as this and a description that says "OMG JK DIGG ME UP :)," you're running Digg into the ground. It seems like within the last few weeks, more and more people have found that they can just lie themselves into increasing their ego and epenis with dugg up stories.
Stop, just stop. - drumpat01, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22buried for misleading title.
- dazman, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18Worthy or not, misleading titles should be buried.
- lokee73, on 10/10/2007, -2/+76 Apart destroyed LiveJournal. I'm sure their future endevors will continue to rape the goodness out of whatever they touch.
- Sarawanan, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7I could really see why Facebook needs this and it's interesting that it's taken them this long to use this technology, considering how much database access their services would require.
I've seen a couple of stats from 'before-and-after' and after looking at those, you'll be blown away at how beneficial this is. Unfortunately, a Google search hasn't gotten me a link to share with stats. Hopefully someone else can find some, or I'll post them if I find them later.
If you have absolutely NO clue what this technology is, here's some info (I have a feeling that alot of people won't know): http://nextcritic.com/2007/07/23/what-is-memcached/ - Brightside, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Facebook already has been using it. They are now just sharing their code improvements with Six Apart.
- jkramlich, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4As a developer at http://www.gigoit.org I can tell you that our use of memcache has reduced the load on our database server tremendously. Our site performs somewhat complex SQL to find free stuff near your location.
SQL queries are cached when executed. The next time the data is requested our site checks the cache and pulls the data from there if available. A SQL query that takes 4 seconds to process only takes about 40ms to pull from the cache. Someday I'll post full benchmarks and some of our PHP code for using MySQL easily with Memcache. - nitroburn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3*****
- deadmoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Didn't Livejournal create memcached?
- Sarawanan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Title pissed me off too. But it's a worthy story, better than some of the other crap that hits frontpage.
- VioletArrows, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Blame SixApart, that is their actual headline.
- Slimem88, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3FYI, Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LJ, created memcached. http://www.danga.com/memcached/users.bml
Site needs to be updated, but there are a lot out there now that use memcached. Open source, too! - gazotem, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2A better Title would have been
SixApart lies about Actually Merging with anyone... - afx1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2dually-noted
- theblt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There are too many stories with extravagant headlines that end up not even being true. Why the ***** are people doing this? Blog hits? More Diggs = Bigger ePenis?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2what an awesome title. "ALIENS TAKE OVER WHITE HOUSE. ok, not really, but since i have your attention, let me tell you about this other thing that's much less interesting."
- dazman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2blah blah blah .. fish cakes.
- sickswaystop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2finally somebody, meaning facebook; has found the right formula. I'm talking networks, applications, user profiles & mail, picture sharing, all within great design and low frequency ads. this is the same formula AOL and YAHOO always wished they had.
not to mention this article was overlooked last week:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Breaking_Facebook_Acquires_Parakey
if facebook doesn't make any mistakes and continues to take chances, they could possibly re-invent the web (3.0) in the next 5 years with parakey. Soon after microsoft will launch a copycat to "break up the market share" :-P but thats just my two cents. - deadmoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I thought that was the case. Wish I would have caught this comment before I posted a stupid question below asking if LJ created it. I use memcached on my blog. I don't really need to, but it was fun to setup.
- afx1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yes
- Sarawanan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I see, Six Apart really didn't write the information very well and the digg poster was also misleading.
- timdorr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Just now? They've been sharing for quite some time. Steven Grimm appears to be their primary contributor and has been doing so as an employee of Facebook since May of 2006: http://code.sixapart.com/svn/memcached/tags/1.2.3/ChangeLog
- Ghazi, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Lame headline, and I can't blame you because that's what sixapart itself used. Buried anyway!
- whiteguysamurai, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2If only they had.
I'm not one for internet fads like facebook, and i've been a livejournal user from it's beginning.
So when i hear someone talk about what facebook can do, i mention that livejournal has been doing these things for nearly 8 years now.
So if they were to somehow merge facebook would benefit from livejournal's nearly unlimited ability to be customized, and livejournal would benefit from gaining much needed users.
It's too bad really. - brooksbp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Anyone who's worked with Memcached knows enough to give credit to Danga Interactive... not Six Apart...
Plus Steven Grimm of Facebook has been collaborating with Brad and others on Memcached for a long time. This is not news. - webmasterjoe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1How about we blame both?
- vrillco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I've hated sensationalism long before the first blogger was ever born. Buried!
Next in the queue: Digg submitters finally grow up (not really, they just built really tall stilts) - plodtv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I got tricked also :(
- m1bxd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Request for comment:
Will this bring OpenID to Facebook? - judsond, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Sixapart is just trying to look cool to the community again, and what's cooler than lying about facebook right? Maybe not being sellouts, and censoring livejournal? See, now we can all forget the past :)
- tony4moroney, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Whats with the green?
- robertDouglass, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1As the maintainer of the Drupal memcache module (makes your Drupal site really fast) I'm thrilled to hear this. http://drupal.org/project/memcache
- manx203, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Buried - waste of time
- SavageBlackCat, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Burried for Six Apart.
- oldtactics, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Ugh, I wish SixApart would stop tainting the internet.
- sickswaystop, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1haha wow livejournal coul've been sweet... i mean they had the "friends" idea from the start
but didn't take it anywhere! these other sites did it for em LJ sux bro - nsjoker, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2dugg for misleading title.
- hildeaux, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2word.
- excid3, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1*bows down*
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