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- spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Course you don't have to monetize it. We'll plug the servers into the clouds and use puppydogs and fairy juice for bandwidth. I'm sure the Digg employees wont mind living on the streets and eating left-overs.
Profit isn't inherently evil - oblongmouth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7adblock is your friend - i don't even know what you lot are talking about - i've never seen an ad on this site before
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Thanks for uploading that comment.
- econoar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Digg Dugg
- UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"The wildly popular site for uploading"
*barf* The improper use of upload makes me want to voimt. I stop reading or listening to ANYONE that cant get this right.
*I uploaded a file to the FTP server* YAY
*I uploaded a new program to my computer from the CD Rom* Heaves
*I uploaded a new news story to digg* Loads shotgun - patience, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@tehpoutine:
Yet you are on Digg at 930am in the morning. - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"They'll eventually make a drastic change to force ad viewing, like with an intermediate page that you have to view before you can view the true link (think ign, etc). "
That's still just a (more obnoxious) ad impression, it doesn't get the person to click through and buy stuff - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6So is every editorial piece ever, doesn't make it any less valid as a discussion point
- MaddDog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And you think a valid discussion will rise out of the comments that follow?
- Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I feel kind of guilty admitting it but neither have I.
- spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well okay, theoretically
- dutter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And that's kind of the point, really. Digg's core techie audience arriving here through Firefox or Opera probably doesn't see the ads, or more likely have little if any interest in them.
I would be very surprised to find that Kevin Rose & company haven't at least discussed in passing how to make money with Digg beyond advertising. Perhaps there's more to the New York Times making Digg a social media bookmark choice than just altruistic spirit?
It's one thing for "some idiot" (hi Useful) to drop a Digg link at the bottom of a story (I'll take my bow here.) The New York Times is a whole different critter, though. It'll probably turn out to be something like the Technorati/Washington Post deal. Good for Digg. - sunprema, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Digg is cool !. Everyday I reach out Digg to get updated on technology and political opinion. Its doing a great job in awakening people!.
If Bush visits Digg everyday..then he might correct his Iraq policy and be polite with world leaders and will Listen to UN. - hcetrepus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If Bush visits Digg everyday..then he might correct his Iraq policy and be polite with world leaders and will Listen to UN.
By reading the comments digg users make? Not even.
Surely you don't mean to suggest that stories are found here that can't be located elswhere? - hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1site looks too simplistic. people might be reasonably predictable in their musical choices but dont you have more wide-ranging & variable preferences in all the things you might want to read about? or is it a cia mind-contol experiment? -the pictures looks a bit stepford wives to me
hahaha (sorry but you posted the link) - jo42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"monetize" AKA "Somehow make money off of all the suckers using the site".
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1reads to me as fairly balanced lets hope Digg retains its independence.
Diggers have got digg exactly where They want it and (i think) thats the whole point
Upp Digg!
(ive only been a member 4 weeks) - healmachine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2
The site looks like an obvious takeover target for the big Internet players, considering its popularity and brand recognition. That hasn't happened, and Digg founder Kevin Rose has denied previous rumors that the site would be another social media acquisition by Yahoo, or anyone else. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Look... The first question is: Is digg profitable? Craigslist is much easier to monetize, there are companies paying for vertical ads.
Here on digg, there's not much information that can be read out to get targeted ads. (The comments are primarily flame wars, the article texts aren't on digg's page but on the destination page.)
There's nothing that can really be monetized, even if it's just to be profitable without much more.
Current ads are primarily for Diggnation, anyway. I guess Kevin Rose hopes to make money through that (which can be monetized much better), having digg as an advertising vehicle which could be sold after Diggnation works well enough. - hcetrepus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2"but the challenge to monetize those visits persists."
I feel the same exact way. Theres smaller and smaller amounts of content that you can't access today that you once could a couple years ago. ESPN now has its premi stories under a pay to read -- I'm a sports animal, but theres no way I'm paying to read their sportswriters non nonsensical ideas -- just to fatten their pockets. (Now is when someone chimes in about how how the net isn't like it was in the early-mid 90's .. bla bla bla)
Digg, like ESPN and others, has nothing that I can't live without. Nothing. If it ever turned in to "pay to play", it would become another one of those sites... "oh yeah I remember that site I use to log into"...
My likely unpopular opinion: Its the stories that matter. lets Digg em up or down, and throw away the comments altogether. Theres either too many teens with foul mouths, or frustrated tired "old men" that cant act civil commenting about stories or to one another. - miglaugh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2There are ads, but obviously no-one is clicking them. Otherwise, the "challenge" wouldn't be "persisting".
They'll eventually make a drastic change to force ad viewing, like with an intermediate page that you have to view before you can view the true link (think ign, etc). And thats when it starts to end.
If they are really hurting they should just make it a very low-cost pay site (~$2/month?), instead of whoring themselves out to some media company or taking some other drastic action.
Then they could even pay people to moderate for dupes, or refund people some for their stories that reach the front page.
There's tons of options, I just hope the site doesn't get ruined.
Things are not going to stay as they are for much longer. - lepton, on 10/23/2007, -3/+1I'm on digg several times a day but also enjoy my site http://www.myallo.com which is a new type of thing, a "discovery engine" that finds articles for you through neural networking. It's not a social site though, it's not based on a popular vote.
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -10/+7Dear Comrade,
Stuff costs money.
Digg is already "monetized". It's pulling in revenue. There are ads.
Start your own ad free version if you want. I'm wondering how you'll pay for everything (the programmers, servers, bandwidth, etc). - tehpoutine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Once again proving that Kevin Rose's millions are nothing but imaginary figures in his head. I sense another dot-bomb.
- essaywriter, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Society begins and ends with digg. When Sir Bernard Chivilary said 'hounds will feast on society' he was clearly refering to the impact of digg on today's society. Much has been said about the influence of the media on digg. Observers claim it bravely illustrates what we are most afraid of, what we all know deep down in our hearts.
Primarily digg builds trust among the people. To put it simply, people like digg. - GreenLantern33, on 10/12/2007, -14/+9"but the challenge to monetize those visits persists."
Does everything need to be monetized? Can't some things just be for the good of society? I'm so sick of this capitalist *****. - essaywriter, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3*****. digg down. duped comment
- useful, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6This "industry news" is just some idiots opinion.
Blog spam - MeatBiProduct, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Wheres Rupert Murdoch when you need him?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Opinionated ***** Blogpost Alert.
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