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- floort, on 05/14/2008, -26/+131This is nuts. There is nothing of value at Digg except the names of a few million people. They shun original content and blacklist you if you post links to your own ideas or blogs. It is simply a convenience tool for accmlumating news stories and stealing comment traffic, which should go to the original publisher!
OK. Digg me down now. - vinnyvenus, on 05/14/2008, -8/+47So basically you are trying to say is that Digg has anti-spam policy.
- astronomical, on 05/14/2008, -4/+41Did Obama outbid him or what.
- lordtyros, on 05/14/2008, -0/+28bout tree fiddy
- legoalert33, on 05/14/2008, -5/+26Use the damn reply button then.
- odiego, on 05/14/2008, -0/+21I would've cashed in and would be sitting in Aruba right about now.
- ahhell, on 05/14/2008, -2/+19That book needs a longer title.
- JedicodeWarrior, on 05/14/2008, -1/+13"... Rose and Digg CEO Jay Adelson walked away due to issues of control going forward ..." for $100M they walked?? Wow! For that I would have sold and then bought myself an island and retired.
- mediaspree, on 05/14/2008, -0/+11Currently testing comment system for my own $100 million project
- Disease, on 05/14/2008, -3/+14From mrbabyman
- mark076h, on 05/14/2008, -0/+9that was back in 2006
- dagamer34, on 05/14/2008, -1/+11How many websites have enough viewers to cause web servers to regularly go down?
THAT'S why Digg is worth a lot. - mlostracco, on 05/14/2008, -0/+10You wouldn't know it by looking at the Upcoming Stories section.
- elebrio, on 05/14/2008, -1/+12Equating stumbleupon and digg is a little crazy imho. Stumbleupon sends traffic first and commenting is an after thought. In other words it helps build communities off site. Digg provides little benefit to the content publisher other than backlinks.
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -1/+10It's the digg users that chose to bury and shun every blog article, because they're usually unoriginal and spammish. However, blog articles that offer original information or analysis are very often featured on the home page.
- fkr3, on 05/14/2008, -0/+8Engadget and Gizmodo? The only original thing they've ever done was convince people their spam's worth reading before you get to the story they regurgitate.
- RudeTurnip, on 05/14/2008, -1/+8If it wasn't for sites like Digg and Fark, there is no way I would be exposed to so many different content publishers. Digg itself probably isn't worth $100 million as a standalone site, but, a more commercial venture could realize synergies (yes, I am using *that* word) by having access to its userbase. For example, it probably doesn't hurt Revision3 being so closely associated with Digg.
- fkr3, on 05/14/2008, -1/+9Umm.... digg is commercial. It's actually a company with dozens of staff and stuff.
http://digg.com/about - loganhuddleston, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7I agree. I think it is a great station. Very interesting and informative.
- Barackalypse, on 05/14/2008, -1/+9I don't know which party was the dumber one in this deal. Digg for turning down $100 million, or Gore for offering it. The sad thing is Digg has all these people working for it that haven't really been adding any value (functionality wise) to the product over what it was when this offer was made. I mean hell, they could have sold out, pocketed how many million each, and still gotten to pretend they're cool on Diggnation every week.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -2/+11two words: advertising revenue
- rlray216, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6Sorry, my bad. I'll do that from now on.
- Vladek, on 05/14/2008, -2/+10I like digg as much as the next fellow, but this boat is not worth the $200M they were holding out for. Kevin, you should have take the $100M.
- IEatHamburgers, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6Yep, it's a weapon of cyberterrorism. Kevin Rose gave George Bush an excuse to send a million nerds to Gitmo.
- grodrigu, on 05/14/2008, -1/+7Just keep the rights to DiggNation and sell the site.
- floort, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6For someone to pay $200M for Digg, they would have to believe it could make them at least $1B. So do the math on CPM advertising for even 50M page views per month. Never gonna happen. O, and it is accumulating. Was typing too fast before. :) Don't get me wrong. I love Digg. I just don't think these social media sites are worth $200M.
- Swift2, on 05/14/2008, -5/+12Once again, Al Gore reveals himself as someone who gets it on a very deep level. To "floort" -- you don't get it. If people were allowed to spam on digg, nobody would come here. What's valuable about digg? The people who come to digg. Yes, even the political fanatics.
- waluum, on 05/14/2008, -2/+7If Digg ever sells out to someone like Al Gore I will surely cancel my account.
- Neoanarchist, on 05/14/2008, -5/+11Back up your claims and people might agree with you. Spouting some random claim gets you, and the gullible morons that believe "facts" posted without proof, nowhere. That is not to say you aren't right, but link to something or give some proof of some sort before you slander someone or something.
- WhereAmI, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4Well the Ron Paul ***** excludes your claim, because those comments are crazy.
- fkr3, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5Most of the internet even. And television. And newspapers. In fact just about everything.
- SpectralSounds, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5Tree fiddy!? good lord thats a lot of money! How about I just get the tech section for fiddy cents.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4Paper clips. Lots and lots of paper clips.
- fkr3, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4There was a dog in one of the photos of their offices a few weeks ago.... dogs are stuff right?
- TheGreatBelow, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4There actually are copious amounts of ads on digg, its just anyone with a brain browses with Adblock plus so you don't see the ads.
- SpectralSounds, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5Are you suggesting that you support the Republican party?
- sononame, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4Just in case you forgot who sarah lacy is, or that she IS plugging her new book, here's a link of her "interviewing skills"
http://digg.com/tech_news/When_an_Interview_with_Z ... - p51d007, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3He might as well on digg.......it has in the last couple of years become the new home of the democraticunderground/dailyKOS.
- dn11, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3i've got news for you, digg used to be WAY more liberal than it is now. that was the nature of it from the beginning, even before it had a political section it still had that slant. there is no conspiracy, that's just the way it is.
- mediaspree, on 05/14/2008, -4/+8Thats acutally pretty funny. dugg.
- pablo0713, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Current.tv sucks. Pretentious news with pretentious hosts. Fashionable news for a young, dumb & google obsessed generation. I really don't give a flying crap about what people are googling. I don't care about some lame idiots snow boarding trip in Aspen. Maybe I wouldn't care so much but freaking Time Warner replaced CBC World News with Current.tv. At least with CBC World News, I got real unfiltered news from Canada and lots of current issue news documentaries done by serious and seasoned journalists. What I got instead are metrosexuals jabbering on about nothing.
- Appleologist, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4one word: capitalism
- funkytaco, on 05/15/2008, -2/+5If only it had broken your nose instead.
- mban23, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3All you guys who say that Kevin should've taken $100 million dollars are wrong. At least with the part that includes Kevin. When they sell Digg, Kevin won't get that much money. He'll get just a fraction of the money. Most of the money will go to venture capitalists, who funded Digg with millions of dollars. Anyway, he'll have more money than most of us.
- digjam, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4only 100M??? thats all?
- mandarin, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Knowing how Current works (all the way since they started) I sure hope Digg doesnt sell out to those guys. They're looking for a strong brand since Current sucks at that and hardly makes any money. Not to mention high paid execs who run the company but hardly does anything creative.
- centran, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Isn't CurrentTV where the users pick what is played and they allow user content to be submitted?
Maybe they where interested in the Digg code to expand or make their site easier.
However, it sounds like Mr. Gore was planning a merging of the Digg and CurrentTV and that would take away creative control of Digg so they turned it down. - HMTKSteve, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3People Spam digg all the time. It's just that the sites that spam digg are liked by diggers.
- sergiodlopes, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Humm... nice question.
If I'm a blog owner and I post an interesting article on digg, is that spam? Of course "interesting" is subjective, but just because I do that it's already spam? -
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