What is Digg?28 Comments
- kevinrose, on 10/12/2007, -6/+35Very cool, I just installed the bookmarklet.
http://citebite.com/g4y6y7a7rlak - bscott86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Kevin, look at your link now. Apparently it caches the pages on its server. Just look at the number of diggs.
I wonder why they didn't just request a new version of the page and see if the same text could be found... if there were a conflict, then they could display their cache. That seems doable from a programmer's perspective.
This might be a problem when people quote Wikipedia articles that get changed later on. You'd be quoting out-of-date information. This brings up a lot of caching issues that Google has dealt with too.
At any rate, it's still a brilliantly simple idea. - cvrefugee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Sweet, I've always wanted to know what a 500 - Internal Server Error looks like!
- mcrocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, I was kind of disappointed because it just generates a copy of the target page with a span that has a custom id attribute in it and some CSS to make it yellow. The problem with this is that the page is not permanent and relies on CiteBite to actively generate the content from the target page.
I was really hoping that it might do something really cool like generate a javascript URL that loads a page scrolls to the text of interest. At least that way, you'd get a permanently useable URL that won't be affected by a CiteBite slashdotting... er digg effect ;) of course, it wouldn't be a 'tinyurl' if it did it that way. - gorilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, that's great. So we should let this site (that can't handle 168 diggs without crashing) host all of our content!
- brandiniman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.clipmarks.com How does that fair guys?
- synthrabbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a really cool idea, but I wouldn't trust it for longevity. The points made about lost Google-juice make a good point as well. It's much better to create your pages with numerous named anchors that can be referenced like URL#something and hope there's one close to the text you're trying to quote.
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg Effect FTW!
- twfurballs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://citebite.com/s5j3a1s5xekm
No - bdickason, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah I saw it floating around earlier today and didn't think twice about it really, but after giving it a shot I'm sold. Up there with TinyURL and Imageshack for daily use.
- Raybdbomb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://duggmirror.com
Doesn't work though... - Dolomite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Cool! I will do it too.
- bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1lets say you want to quote a certain website or source from the internet this would make handling such things much easier and it would make it easier to share with the general public. If you want to quote something from someone who only has it written in one long essay on the web I would like to use this.
- ejsocom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Wow, that's pretty awesome. It's kind of weird at first, don't know why, but it's pretty cool.
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh that's pretty cool... i hope people don't submit those URLs for stories. lol, I wonder how recursive you could get.
Link to a link to a link to a link to the item. :D Internet treasure hunts? Who knows.... - lukeprog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mcrocker, is there actually any way to do that with Javascript?
CiteBite is down. Anyone know of a similar or better web service? - binocular, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks like it's back up. Very cool little app. The Firefox extension totally rocks. I will use this daily . . . Gthing has a good point, but I don't think this means that tools like CiteBite shouldn't exist. Rather, like any other tool, it just needs to be used wisely.
- TomP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1been looking for something like this for AGES!
- d2002, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if one of Google's competitors introduced this just to f**k with Google's page rank system. Actually, the fact that this thing crashed lead me to believe Microsoft is behind this project.
- Rasomonx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I'm getting "500 - Internal Server Error". Damn >:-
- marc26uk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0the bookmarklet thing didn't work for me, but bookmarked without a second thought.
The internet gets a little bit better every day. - foxymcfox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Google Cache: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:W3Cjealug9wJ:citebite.com/+citebite&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
It probably won't work properly, but it's better than nothing for now. - p_o_b, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1is this the blowjob simulator that Alex talked about in Diggnation awhile back?
- jmeeter, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Man I'm getting some nasty errors when trying to use this website.
- shutthefuckup, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Boo ***** hoo.
- AmZa, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6well kevin's dugg it so its sure to hit the frontpage in no time
- shutthefuckup, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Nasty errors? Better have a ***** cry.
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