What is Digg?34 Comments
- Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18I've been using the Facebook bookmarking thing and it's really nice. Seems like my friends still don't know how to use it though.
Either way:
Facebook>Myspace - Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Eww!
Myspace.
(Who ever gets the more diggs wins) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Here's one more possibility you haven't contemplated: Digg isnt a ***** social bookmarking site.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"I like livejournal,
Higher quality people there...and yes a fair amount of *****."
Good job contradicting yourself to try and make everybody happy with your position. What are you, a politician? - Gemini25RB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Care to explain the "epic battle"? I haven't heard about one before, and the figures cited would seem to put facebook vs. digg in the epic battle...
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Congratulations. Somehow you both disproved and proved your own point.
- ShawnHorton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Facebook will increase visibility to social bookmarking, but it will never take over Digg.com's wealth of news. Besides, most people I know use the Facebook feature to SHOW (other people who use Facebook) recent Digg articles.
- whiteguysamurai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I like livejournal,
Higher quality people there...and yes a fair amount of *****. - darkdaedra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3One question I have to ask based on those graphs is what the hell happened to internet traffic at the beginning of September that caused all four websites depicted to drop in traffic rank?
- beforeIforget, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Even though Digg has tried to branch out to other areas, it is still regarded as a techie site. Therefore, other sites with a more general appeal will eventually overtake it. Doesn't really matter to me though as long as Digg hangs around.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I don't get it...it this suggesting that DIGG is the one that has 500,000 users?
Even by the site's ridiculous standards it does not. Just go to the TOP USERS list and click on the very last page. You get 340,000. And that counts all the multiple accounts (Like Daniel Eran), all the people that signed up and never came back after one day, etc.
In fact, all you have to do is sort by number of comments and you will see that less than 50,000 users have made more than 6 comments on the site EVER, and most of othe other 290,000 have not only made less than 6 comment,s but they have submitted only 1-2 storeis, and have dugg only a handful as well.
In other words, they are basically INACTIVE users.And that doesn't take into account the number of people that WERE heavily active and left when it became crappy with all the added categoires.
In any given week, it is likely less than 30,000 unique people log onto Digg and actually particpate. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Let's get it clear...
Facebook is a social network for students (and other people), if you want to compare it, do it with MySpace.
Of course you will see a lot of people on Facebook, but the users use it to contact their friends not to get the news, etc.
When I log on facebook, I check to see I don't have any new message, or invitation etc.
In the other hand, Digg is a bookmarking site. People check it for one purpose, not to read message posted by their friends, not to check for invitation, but to get and share news.
The connection between the users on Facebook is totally different than the one in Digg.
If you want to compare Facebook, compare it with MySpace; and Digg, compare it with Netscape, Reddit.
Peace. - CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@carapi
That's a silly comment. Did it ever cross your mind that, perhaps, Facebook just offers a better experience than MySpace? Part of the reason MySpace has such a problem with people just accumulating a bunch of friends is because there isn't much else you can do with it that's very compelling.
I have a MySpace page, and I use it for the purposes you allude to in your comment, but I just signed up on Facebook and I can confidently say Facebook is significantly better in every single way than MySpace. Every feature that MySpace has, Facebook does better and Facebook has many, many useful and fun features that MySpace simply does not have. The only feature I can think of that MySpace has and Facebook lacks is attaching music to your profile that plays automatically (videos now too). I don't really see that as something very important when you can already list all of your favorite music and now share links to anything you feel like. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Uhhh, if Facebook's creators think they are worth over $1 billion, I really don't think they would want to merge with Digg.
- electronaught, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3monolith: it's not???
- electronaught, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I bookmark sites I like on digg...everyone else can see them...sounds like social bookmarking to me. That is the essential function of digg with added features like comments and blogging. Although from the definition from wikipedia below sounds pretty much like digg with the exception of tagging stories...the title and desciption are what we use to find them.
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In a social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources, which they find useful. Often, these lists are publicly accessible, and other people with similar interests can view the links by category, tags, or even randomly. Some social bookmarking systems allow for privacy on a per-bookmark basis.
They also categorize their resources by the use of informally assigned, user-defined keywords or tags (see folksonomy). MOST social bookmarking services allow users to search for bookmarks which are associated with given "tags," and rank the resources by the number of users which have bookmarked them. Many social bookmarking services also have implemented algorithms to draw inferences from the tag keywords that are assigned to resources by examining the clustering of particular keywords, and the relation of keywords to one another. - kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i would say school started, but since we're talking about facebook, digg...yeah
- ziggystardust, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Summary: There's no "epic battle" and facebook has added a feature that at least a dozen sites have offered for over a year.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Based on your rant and your style of writing, pre-sex school math for you means the class you took yesterday.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Cool! more ***** anecdotal evidence. So, most people you know use Facebook to show Digg articles! That represents about 0.0000001% of total Facebook users.
Face it...less than 0.1% of Americans have ever HEARD of Digg. Less than 10% of that actually visit the site more than once. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5amen to that,
the biggest problem, imo, is everyone having unlimited modpoints, so stating any sort of opinion that doesn't wholy support nintendo, apple, or bash sony is nearly instantly dugg down. Digg is the fanboys ultimate paradise! - bionerual, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3The better quality articles will probably still continue to come from sites like digg and slashdot without the myspace-teen user group
- ZdrowcaB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Hmm, I don't think facebook can beat digg when it comes to this sort of thing. All of my friends use facebook as an alternative to myspace, not to see online articles
- tdyer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4...who gives a *****?
- acidhash, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I just switched from MySpace, and I gotta say, I'm loving facebook. It's serious social bookmarking, not the fake "OMFG I GOTS MORE FRIENDS THAN U DO!!!" stuff that MySpace has.
Anyway, I don't care how many times Kevin says it, Digg != social bookmarking in the real form of the phrase. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4would you prefer Myspace?
- MrBone, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Wow, it took me a few seconds to remember who netscape was. Early browser, fair bit of popularity back in the day etc, etc....
*going to read the ***** article, back in a few....*
Wow. Graphs! I've not seen graphs like those since early pre-sex school math! I fail to understand them just like I did way back in the dawn of time!
Could someone smarter than me please tell me what those numbers mean? I'm not smart enough to know how those jiggly lines relate to digg, yahoo(sorry, I mean netscape), youtube, president bush, MJF( god bless his heroic soul), rush limbaugh, oh my I seem to be ramblimg, I'll stopp now, so sorry for the bother. I must have mistaken digg for fark.....
Facebook? I face books every day if I can help it! Books are nice! Facebooks seems dirty somehow. But thats me, digg me down to hell please it's getting colder up in my parts these days, mostly because the lower parts of the globe are getting warmer.
Just to sum up: RANT RANT, OH MY; LOOK HOW BAD THE WORLD IS; WHAT? EH? THE OTHER EAR DEAR; I SEEM TO HAVE MISLAID MY HEARINGAID!!! OLD PERSON ALERT!!!! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0If MySpace was bad for you, it is becuase you made it bad. People who don't treat Myspace as a way to justify their lives by how many friends they acquire can get just as good results as they can with Facebook.
People who say they used to use MySpce but now switched to Facebook are basically admitting they were part of the problem with MySpace. - Darkness123, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Why don't Digg and FaceBook merge? DiggBook ?
- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4Who wants digg? Based on the articles, comments and subsequent ratings most of the people here are either 13 or mentally handicapped.
- mikewhite314, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2What? Are you saying that Digg is social bookmarking?
- whiteguysamurai, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Eww!
Facebook.
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