What is Digg?51 Comments
- gabeN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20I've been secretly working on an antisocial networking site... You try and avoid as many "friends" as possible...
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14gabe, you got a little something there on your nose - yeah right there - it's sorta brownish
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I prefer to call it "Social Time Wasting" rather than "Social Networking."
- Whitey04, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19It can't be 100% user powered until the users know how Diggs and Bury's work. What makes something get to the front page?
For all we know Kevin Rose looks through and promotes them himself. - agrumbine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@gabeN
Yeah, I love your site! I'm totally not a part of it! - jlowe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Hello, welcome to digg. Here are the topics of our articles:
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YouTube haha funny one~
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kevin rose is amazing!
digg - lukee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Digg's path to profitability:
1. create social news site
2. drink beer
3. ???
4. profit!
(5. new couch for kevin) - kweee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yeah, 100% user powered by 0.001% of the users.
- tdhurst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7And yet you're still a member and you still give an opinion...
- h3smith, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The only thing I dislike about digg is how big of a personal circle jerk it is.
- MrKite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+530% Apple fanboy news, 30% Open Source fanboy news, 30% anti-Microsoft news, and 10% of interesting news.
I wouldn't exactly call that a crazy mad-house of news... it's more about fanboy guilds taking over the site. Poor, poor digg.com. - rotten777, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6At least they're not just going to destroy the site with banners on each side, top, and bottom.
This is a good site (minus the trolls and political slapfights) and I hope it gives them enough money to live healthily. - josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Costanza: It's a show about nothing...
NBC Exec: That's a show... How is that a show?
Costanza: Because it's on TV...
NBC Exec: Not yet - superterran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Man... there's a lot of Digg haters on Digg. Reckon they're all the same people who bitch about how Microsoft is the most evil company ever while using all of their software? I love digg, and I trust Kevin Rose and Co. will do it justice. If you don't like something, find an alternative, or offer constructive critisism. Just bitching that it's a fad, a fad you hapen to visit 50 times a day, does nothing but annoy everyone and strengthen my 'digg down' skills.
- LaundroMat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+324 years sure is a long time...
- nuXan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If Digg was 100% user powered, then why not add a section for digging upcoming modifications to digg, so that they don't waste money on possible useless tools. That way they don't add a new section or tool without people digging it or burying it.
- zacmccormick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Completely useless article, we all know you are trying to impress users. What exactly was the news here?
- twatwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Without social networking how would I ever have come across this?
http://digg.com/apple/This_is_why_I_love_the_Apple_Store - Arch77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The question then becomes: who's "digging" who?
Reminds me of this quote:
And when you look into the abyss, remember that the abyss is also looking into you."-Nietzsche - COBOLdinosaur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hmmm.... "100 percent user driven", is a load of crap. Items disappear without a trace all the time. Pages that belong in the dump end up on the front page. The number of diggs for promotion is meaningless.
The site is controlled by the secret inner circle of gestap.... erm mafi... uhmm edit... modera... digg paid sta... nope ... got it... friends of Digg (is that politically correct?)
I know from personal experience. It does not matter how many diggs you get; if Kevin and friends do not want it on the front page; it will get buried and if you complain too loudly maybe you disappear without a trace or word too.
So tow the line and keep that nose brown then some day, you will get elevated to the high levels that get you offers of paid servitude on other sites that have duped the Digg format, and are making money with it even with a crappy presentation. - Arch77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Rose also said that Digg plans to mine user behavior data, so that the news service can recommend stories and connect people with similar interests.
That sounds a little ominous. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@jlowe
You forgot Nintendo. Their fanboys killed the gaming news section. - robweber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3what about maddox, he's been around forever.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If there is only a way to incorporate ads in rss that are not intrusive, maybe digg will become more profitable.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1">Agrees with superterran"
Then click the little thumbs up button instead of posting an absolutely worthless comment. - venir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@hankroth
24 years is impressive considering web pages have only been viewable to the public since the early 90's. - tdhurst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2And back in my day we didn't have any of this high speed mumbo jumbo! We had to keep books by our side to entertain ourselves while we downloaded stuff!
So, old guy/Hank Roth/internet OLD TIMER...Are you saying popularity/celebrity is fleeting? Gee...thanks. - btipling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's 100% user based, except for that 50% silent moderation where they take digg articles out of the cue with no explanation.
- untzboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1digg tools are useless. The TOOLS are a fad, unless Kevin gets his head out of his ass
- n8dawg87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is possibly the second worst photo of Kevin ever? He looks kind of creepy. (businessweek cover being #1)
- hawk_eye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't they all do (or hope to do) it ?
- ziggystardust, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@josegutz
Post's like mine? When you are a member for more than 2 months and contribute ANYTHING at all to the front page, which you have NOT, you can say things to members with a track record of contribution like you said to me.
I did not say anything immature or offensive. I was merely making an observation that a story was posted almost a day ago and got no attention and magically appeared on the homepage with less than 30 Diggs and had 33 when I made my statement.
It is arrogance and ignorance like yours that is a catalyst for flaming responses like I could make but choose not to.
COME ON JOSEGUTZ, GIVE SOMETHING! - josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7@ ziggystardust
Posts like yours and the replies that are predictable and inevitable, are the reason why digg is considered "The Digg madhouse"
Come on guys... GIVE SOMETHING BACK!!!! - codechunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Fad, trend, popularity contests. blah blah blah. 3/4 of all technological advancement within the last 100 years have been based upon contemporary "fads" and the swing of a "trend". Or based upon someones idea of trying to gain somewhat of a pop-cultural image. Really if you think about it, the automobile didn't become a necessity in our everyday lives until it's "popularity", there's that word again, caused a high demand for its production. Prior to World War I the common car was not very common and was mostly accessible to those of aristocratic nature. Sounds familiar. Computers.nahhhh that just a fad. Video games, silly kids that's just a fad. History has proved that a fad is only fad when the trend of the fad is easily forgotten.That's my philosophical breakdown for the year. You Digg?
- ewaite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So I figure, I lurk here all the time and read about digg's viability as a company, and verbally how the few are "digging" for the many. So i figured I'd join in.
The amount of people that visit this site versus posters must be incredible, but I worry as more users "digg" the news will get watered down with stories of "Taylor Hicks" and general news crud. All they need to do is establish themselves as the site where users drive the news. The profit will follow. - MrKite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1They'll be asking for donations in a few months. digg t-shirt anyone? ;)
- codechunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OBKenobi , tisk tisk, two worthless comment don't make a right. and you have yet to post meaningful insight on this subject. hmmmmmmmmm. Anyway. One digg and 7 hours later I agree with his post.
- codechunt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0>Agrees with superterran
- codechunt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0
SOCIAL NETWORKING
DEFINITION: The activity of meeting friends or business contacts through networking Web services, offering blogs, chat, e-mail, instant message and video conference. The scope includes Web sites that host private or open virtual communities. - kaboegel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0
as long as you can't actually discuss anything (I don't see a collection as separated comments as a discussion) there's not much social networking going on in my opinion.
or is that the future? short meaningless blobs of text that disappear as fast as they appear? - tdhurst, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Yeah, so? 99.9% would be doing the same damn self promotion if WE were the founders of a popular social web site...
- kaboegel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1it's like televison.. if there's nothing interesting to show talk about yourself
- apocalizer, on 10/12/2007, -16/+9I has Kevin Rose on it, duh...
And that right there highlights the effectiveness of 100% user powered stories. - gabeN, on 10/12/2007, -14/+7If anyone can do social networking right it's K-Rose and the digg team...
Can't wait to see what you've got in store. Keep up the good work fellas! - hankroth, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4Digg is a fad but so is everything on the InterNUT. Kevin should enjoy it while he can because in the 24 years I've been on the net I have seen everything rise to the surface and then sink faster then folks can remember the names. Networking is memetic and copycats will all have their cult followers and the losers will fade and eventually everyone tires of the time it takes to do something useless and they turn to some new worthless, time-consuming fad, which is the trend at that particular time.. If you want to digg it and be popular; rise to the top of the pile, then make sure you preach to the choir but if you only want truth forget interNUT democracy because nobody likes to be wrong and you will slide to the bottom of the pile. If you follow net demographics you will see who directs the net at any given time. I suggest getting a couple of good books and find a comfortable place to sit and read and just turn off your computer.
Hank Roth - haggo, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3a digg about digg , its so crazy it just might work!
- Fireindc, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1*****
- ziggystardust, on 10/12/2007, -21/+533 Diggs in 19 hours. How is this on the fp?
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