What is Digg?54 Comments
- hoopers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Hey! Great! Another opportunity to read ads and shop in the Internet...because, well, I can't do that easily now. What I need is a SimCity (Classic) front end stuffed with ads and links to real web pages. Someone please explain the allure of this? -- No Digg
- EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Looks like a mix between habbo hotel, million dollar homepage and second life.
- msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Awesome. The only thing worse than my normal daily routine is pretending to perform that routine online!
My questions about the whole thing is: Why?
What makes this fun? - dustko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Wow. I wrote that assuming you'd be able to walk around this pixel city, chatting to people and perhaps entering shops (ala Habbo Hotel). It looks like all you can do is buy ads, and click on ads. Everything is static.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"The internet wants to emulate reality."
No it doesn't. It's non-physical. That's it's power. People have been trying to tack a 'physical reality' onto the web since VRML 10 years ago. It's ***** stupid. Google's perfect at what it does. Putting it in a little 'pixel building' and making me walk my little 'pixel man' over there does NOTHING to improve it. Moving from site to site is in NO WAY improved by making me 'walk past' 40 buildings covered in ads.
I never want to have to respond to "Google it!" with "Aw, man, I'm on the other side of town, it's gonna take me 15 minutes to get over there!" - icexe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6whether or not this succeeds, it's nice to see people trying new, innovative ideas.
- WrecksTXP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Answer: Nothing.
- ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Thats for sure!
hard to know whether tis worth registering, anyone got scrennies? - DataPath, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6You can do ANYTHING at Zombocom. Anything at all. The only limitation is yourself.
- Strangers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Reminds me of when they log onto to internet in Futurama.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think you'll find the "main street" of the internet is Yahoo, MSN and Google. Digg's 8.5 million visitors a month would be a fraction of what those sites pull in a day.
- citypixel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hey Everyone,
Thanks dirtyfratboy for digging us, and thanks to everyone else for all the positive and negative feedback! (Also, thanks to Google Alerts for telling me this was here!) For those of you who like it - there's WAY more to come!
You CAN go into buildings, but we disabled it while we migrated to a new server farm. It's easier on the backend, and now that we're moved, we're doing some major testing before bringing it back online - so stay tuned!
The buildings do repeat, but you're seeing a 25x25 grid - the site is 10,000x10,000 and we're limiting that. There are a lot more unique buildings and specialty buildings and we're dropping them in to keep things fresh. Like a real city, we know there would be changes, and we're trying to bring a little of that to the site.
Slow navigation today? Sorry about that, but we had 900+ unique registered users over night!
Links to other sites? Every ad will link to other sites, and depending on the building you'll be able to shop inside of it - but give us 2 more weeks on that!
Finally, for all the negative comments - sorry you don't like the site. We went for something unique, and most people think we nailed it so far. Think you can help us make it better? I'll have a statue erected in your honor. Think you can DO it better? Send me a link and I'll digg it!
P.S. Keep an eye out for the stadium (we'll be streaming music and games from there!) - henkk78, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6okay, so i've handed over 32 USD to an Unverified PayPal seller to advertise my company's Wi-Fi hotspot service... (look out for the orange Skyrove logo!) Hope it works! If I get screwed, I reckon I could always blog about it and submit it to digg and in that way get traffic...
By the way, is it just me or is everyone hanging out in the top-left corner of PixelYork? - Dotnetsky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Pixel-Schmixel. Another hare-brained cutsie marketing gimmick. I give it 2 months to live.
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They need to make it "draggable" ... that arrow-UI isn't that great.
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm putting up digg.com ads, you know, we need more sheep finding their way here. ;)
although the black building on the corner of 3100-3600 Queens Blvd aint half bad. Digg HQ, anyone? - thegline, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A lot of the people commenting here have nailed the same basic problem. The whole advantage of the Internet is that we're freed from the constraints of physical reality. To remake those constraints in a new form is just foolish. It's like that VRML demo of a library I saw, where it took minutes on end to tediously walk down to the right aisle and get a book. I tried it and said, "Right, and I can type the name of the book in two seconds."
- NomenNescio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Them:You wish you were here
Me: No. - knellotron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, who needs Google Earth anymore?
- frant1c, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Slow navigation, static and repeating. As much as I love pixel art, I'll pass on this one.
- tmilam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Looks like there are too many cop cars. I'd feel a little paranoid living there.
- Hush, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Well, I'm glad I got my daily dose of stupid out of the way first thing this morning.
It can only go up from here. - xswag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let that site die off. Please!
- jcliff29, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Perhaps a great idea but slow, spam and pointless.
- Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6i love cheesy things like this. dugg.
- Loyaleagle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seems the site is not letting us log on anymore...:(
- CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1habbo hotel was awesome.
- tablatronix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dugg for stupidity.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.citypixel.com/city/cny/scroll9a.php?rnd=1151159179921
You don't need to be signed in I think ... - cmrobin21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I posted this last week!
alas...my one submission goes un-noticed...
http://digg.com/technology/City_of_the_future_
guess i double digg it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow, interesting how the exact same story gets drastically different diggs...
- molsen311, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1kinda interesting i guess, but rather difficult to navigate
- Switch22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is pointless, if you scroll up every island of buildings is the same.
- quasipalm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No. According to Alexa, Digg reaches less than 0.8% of people online. Why Digg is great for us geeks, most people out there haven't even heard of it.
- Noloco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great concept but just seems boring to me.
- zixel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1takes too long to load. reminds me a little of geocities circa 1996 and seems dot-comish in idea. like that new-design pixel art trend in the late 90's. it will probably go out of business.
- thegline, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The problem is that you have created something that is not a solution to an existing problem. All you have done is taken an existing solution and made it more cumbersome and unappealing to work with. Adding a graphics layer to something, whatever it is, does not automatically make it better, or even more interesting.
- spamnon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they have added a lot of cool things to the site since this was originally dugged. you can chat now, blog, add pics, etc. But the coolest part is you can even get yourself an apartment and design on to your liking. very neat!
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1People have new, dumbass ideas all the time. We usually ignore them. They're a waste of time.
- mrwumpus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought of doing a site like this after the Milliondollarhomepage became popular. I agree with previous posters that the navigation is just too clunky and the different addresses look too similar. A better idea would be a 3d first person cockroach simulator in NYC where ads are plastered on things like trash and such. :)
- stressed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ummmmm...I like some pixel sites. No thanks here. (I might have to look a bit more...curiosity.)
- keng3071, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just read on the login page that chat is coming July 6th. I guess I'll wait....
- henkk78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How long before I can actually make contact with anyone? Just being able to chat with folks will already be a huge improvement!
pixel_arteez, if you need an in-browser chat client, I suggest you speak to the guys at Qunu.com. It's based on jabber, so very flexible. (people can use in-browser chat to talk with others with standalone chat apps).
henk - johntravolta, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5This is spam, how did we let this get to the front page?
- coolguy69, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1good luck in your money earning ventures - doesn't seem to look like its gonna live long
- Mushroonaut, on 07/11/2008, -5/+3Isn't digg becoming "the main street" of the Internet right now?
- qster, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Mr Wong did it best
- dustko, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2The internet wants to emulate reality. Video games want to emulate reality. It's inevitable that cyberspace will consist of such environments...in the future. This is just a 1.0 of this type of idea.
The appeal to this site is just the same as Second Life, GTA, The Sims or mmorpgs -- it is a safe environment in which to "exist" without repercussion. That is what the internet is to many of us, and that is what this site is attempting to ca$h in on. Of course, the allure for the creators is easy enough to comprehend, but for others, walking around in a virtual environment still has a novelty effect, and is certainly not adopted en masse. Basic things such as random social encounters, vicarious role playing, etc have a certain allure; and to many it is still a new concept. If a company was to actually capture the "majority" of the internet into such an environment, they'd complete "Step 4" in a big way. - matthewconnelly, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5http://www.duggmirror.com/technology/Citypixel_-_Our_World_in_Pixels/
- sgtpinky, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1PixelYork? If it was the Pixel Republic of Congo I would be interested. No digg.
ps. Go Sweden against Deutschland! -
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