What is Digg?Sponsored by Travelzoo
Take Advantage of Ridiculously Low Holiday Airfares view!
travelzoo.com - Flights $52 and up for Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year. But move on it now.
58 Comments
- Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -7/+35Can we have a new 'Felatio' section on Digg where these stories go, so that I can ignore them?
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Ray Ozzie is listed as #1. While he may indeed be an "agenda setter" because of his position at MS, his strategy of imitating every single move that Google makes (that's what it has been like so far!) is not a wise strategy for MS, or any company.
That strategy that made MS a success on the desktop will not work on the web because the web is platform agnostic. Without hardware limitations, whoever releases a new product/service FIRST and delivers it in a quality manner will win every time. The others will suffer the same fate as Digg's imitators. They are nothing but an "alternative" to the real thing, and for web apps, that's not going to cut it.
But besides that, the belief that many people are interested in web-based alternatives to desktop software is wrong.
Think about it this way, would YOU use a web-based office suite with fewer features instead of the FREE Open Office, or the desktop office suite you already have? - ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20um, yes it is
- bpapa, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22Hey man, give credit where's it due, Ray Ozzie certainly DOES NOT simply just copy everything that google does...
.. he copies apple too. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13the Agenda Setter post doesn't pay too well.
- Gaius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Because he lives in San Francisco. You have to make at least $6 billion a year just to afford a 250 square-foot studio apartment...
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10here here
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7So why is he "dirt poor" and living with roommates?
- dWhisper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Thanks for making it apparent that you didn't actually read the article. The heading is misleading, but the article itself is about the current trend/agenda-setters in the whole of the Information/Technology industry. There's a lot of very interesting information in there about the people that shape not only the underlying environment we enjoy, but the direction we take in going forward.
And digg is not a "news" site. From the "About Us" section... "Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on digg is submitted by the digg user community (that would be you)."
So now that you sound like a complete douche, perhaps you should re-evaluate what this site is. The problem sounds like it's you, since you're looking for something in the site that it's not. If you want news, hit CNN or Google News. - cambrown99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The best entrepreneurs are the ones that have a passion for what they're building first and foremost above and beyond any cash reward that may or may not follow. Kevin strikes me as being in from that mold.
- gabeN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4BuisnessWeek?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Is there enough room on Kevin's dick for all of us?
- Misanthrope, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Nope, you just have to be good at acting poor.
;) - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Digg is a nice site and all, but is Kevin Rose really relevant to anyone outside of the tech "blogosphere?" I have never been able to understand how this guy has amassed such a large cult following.
- dreadsword, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Has anyone ever actually tried to use Ray Ozzie's big product - the "Groove Collaborative P2P Workspace" or whatever it was?
We did, and it was a complete disaster. Nothing worked consistently, the software crashed constantly, but most importantly in Ozzie's case, the conceptual modelling behind the product appeared to be fundamentally flawed in many ways - it didn't actually help us do anything; in fact, it was a constant hindrance. Everyone quickly reverted back to email threads and network drives and VPN access for the functionality that groove was supposed to provide.
Still not sure how he got to be MS's great hope...
Edit: He may correctly be the top agenda setter, but that doesn't mean he's setting the *right* agenda for MS to continue to thrive - hawkmucci, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6i hear Kevin and friends are looking for some new people for their content group revision3. anyone know how to get in?
also, why isn't Nick Douglas from www.valleywag.com on this list? - tonyalameda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd put Blake Ross on that list
- NaTech911, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great for Kevin....sorry to only see one woman on the list. Hopefully in the years to come, more women will be shining through as technology innovators. And yes, I am a *girl* :-)
- Alex.w, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Slashdot has imitators, they're all crappy.. but Digg isn't on of them, its not trying to be /.
- reeder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I agree on the ass kissing thing, but only because it has lead Digg to do some shady ***** while feeling completely righteous about it. Still, Digg is definitely better than 90% of the companies out there, not that that is saying much.
But ass kissing is the Web 2.0 way of doing things, so no way to get around it. And WTF is a Microsoft employee doing at the top? Seems to me that it wrecks the credibility of the entire list. - Tredici, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And without a bunch of really intelligent monkeys nor would we, so show them some freakin' respect! Why does nobody show the damned monkeys respect!?!?
- kwilliam71, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Great article... I'm only a casual follower of technology and hear these names all the time on Diggnation, Twit, etc., but never really knew who a lot of these people were. Now I know!
- mobilehavoc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I swear there's a Digg script running on the servers...
If Title or description contains "Kevin Rose", promote to top of first page.
Seriously...I'm just going to start putting Kevin Rose in any stories I submit whether its relevant or not. - dWhisper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3He's relevant to us old TechTV fans too, before Digg had even been thought of.
- Ubermensch423, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3simply because digg has been braking even, as Kevin claims, does not mean Kevin is not wealthy. his salary is deducted from digg's profits and included in its costs. they could make $10 million in profit before his salary is paid, he then gets a $10 million salary and digg breaks even.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg is a company?
- kwilliam71, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Digg needs a Dark Tip section. ;)
- Spinney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1(2) is my favorite cause finally my generation gets some credit as not stupid in the eyes of everyone.
- absmith1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hey - He narrowly beat Paul Ottellini of Intel. A funny image just came to mind. Can you imagine them at a party together?
- miaow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2the thing about the net, its shifting sands and a low-entry-barrier industry. my sense is that most on that list greatest motivation is the fear of a competitor suddenly coming up from nowhere, or someone managing to carve out a technology monopoly, with innovation being 2nd. in the end the end-users seem to be the winners.
Shuttle wotsit should be high on the list and any microsoft guys at the bottom end. he is basically smashing the fee-based OS model, making microsoft possibly largely irrelevant. - jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you seem to hold digg in very high regard for what it is.
- dextroz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it should be 'auto-felatio' since digg is sucking on digg's own dick. like when fox has a newsflash called 'fox pollsters poll fox to find out that fox rulez!"
- greatromance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Will everyone stop whining about people kissing Kevins ass on Digg? PLEASE! It's a GOOD story. Isn't that the point of Digg? To push the good stories to the frontpage? Riiiight. So stfu already and stop crying. I personally think that Kevin deserves to be on that list. He has great ideas and has built from scratch a wonderfully popular community based social networking company. It's called innovation people, that's what he's doing. Stop crying about seeing stories about Kevin on the frontpage. It's been happening since day one. Do you honestly think the stories linked to Kevin are going to stop if you keep crying about seeing them?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? ***** morons.
- mytechgirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they are all men!
- gabeN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I think Kevin's position on the list is well deserved, if not understated. In the post-bubble world, Kevin has come to signify where the industry is headed. Perhaps better than anyone on the list, he's pioneered the way Web 2.0 should be done. He hasn't sold out, gone ad-crazy, or deviated from a path to profitability. He consistently produces good, relevant ideas, and has demonstrated an ability to unify like-minded people.
Granted, he's been very lucky. Another large portion of his "cult hero" status, is his story. He went from underground hacker-geek, to TV star, to dot-com prodigy in only a matter of years. I'm obviously a fan, but mostly because I look up to what he's been able to accomplish, and hope to achieve similar success. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Rated as INACCURATE!
:) - ravencin, on 01/22/2008, -0/+0Digg is not a company, http://craigslistit.com is
- DigitalBrian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why is Tim Berners Lee not number 1? that is stupid, without him none of the others would have created ANYTHING.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I heard Kevin Rose is #1 in the masturbation circuit.
- Alex.w, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3'Felatio' section... BEST comment EVER! I agree too, enough with the brown nosing already
- jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2CmdrTaco ought to deserve the credit
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Is it just me or does Ray Ozzie look like he has a huge brain?
- johnie1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2it's a poor mans reddit (:
- HomelessJoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Well NewsWeek made him "sound" rich. I stopped looking at NewsWeek after that. That was the 5th article that they had on their cover I later found out was extremely misleading.
- KingDork, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Sorry Kevin might deserve that list in a few years, but yeah he isnt rich yet. Get rich first, youll be surprised at how man "agendas" you can set when you are.
- Scottish, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2[This is boilerplate copy calling for the prohibition of all Digg masturbation stories. Marked as lame.]
- jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I wouldn't quite describe it as "agenda" setter, since Kevin Rose basically does ***** all but maintain a site (I don't even know if he does this personally or hires a co-op student) and hold a podcast. Am I missing something here?
And, _come on guys_ Digg is nothing but a Web 2.0 version of Slashdot... gimme a break - Heembo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2> The others will suffer the same fate as Digg's imitators.
Luckily they didnt say the samething about Slashdot's imitators when Digg first came around.... -
Show 51 - 61 of 61 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is