What is Digg?56 Comments
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61Digg is where I learned everything blends, and that Russia is backwards sometimes.
Thanks, Digg. - MrMinit, on 10/12/2007, -8/+61Kevin Rose in the title; it should reach the front page! :-)
- zwei, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37Digg is a lot of good links ...with a lot of dumbass comments from pre-pubescents and intellectually-stunted individuals.
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Actually, Kevin simply realized that the myopic view most teens hold about the world don't pay the bills.
- electronaught, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I'm glad they're planning on making their search better...
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Let me summarize: "Digg is my meal ticket to early retirement."
- po6ot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Good, Kevin says that it is a "news" site. I don't know how many comments by frigtards I have seen that think digg is social bookmarking. Over the last month or so I have seen so many people getting dugged down for asking "why is this news?".
I suppose this shift in understanding occurred once they expanded the scope of digg beyond tech news to include "celebrity gossip". What a big sellout!
Also interesting to note that digg began as an experiment. As a user I would judge this experiment to be a failure. The front page is lowest common denomenator *****.
Once upon a time the users were smart mac users, with strong liberal views on things (basically a minority of the actual population) then the crowd began to catch up. If you open everything up to everyone. It's going to be rubbish. It will always be like that as long as most people are frigtards.
Of course, Kevin Rose must think it is a big success when looking at the size of the user base (and all the advertising revenue generated by it). But if you were to judge digg on the quality of the frontpage, then no, it is not a success. - RonaldLewis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Retirement is never an option when you're having fun.
- NiX0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9sell out?
at what point did Kevin sell out?
Digg makes money on advertising. How is this any different from Digg 2 years ago? It isn't.
Kevin and the entire Digg crew have been sweating it out, trying to make Digg the best that it can be; meanwhile, we get spammers and retard myspace kiddies digging up the most intellectually devoid stories on The Intarwebs. If anyone's to blame, it's the diggers, not the digg staff. Give me a break.
(this comes from a digger who refuses to digg any story digg related) - shyguy01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+827 minutes: It's one of those things where...
- shyguy01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+836:30
It's one of these things where... - b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"As a user I would judge this experiment to be a failure."
I'm assuming a lot here as, to be honest, I'm not completely sure of what digg set out to be. But if digg set out to be a news website that reflects what it's users want to see, then how is it a failure?
Sure, the content may not be what _you_ want, but that just means that you are not in the majority. It's not really a fault of digg.
I guess you could say it is a fault of the community that the stuff that appears on the front page is, in your opinion at least, crap, and in turn that the concept of digg is fundamentally flawed, but assuming that you could make a similar website (it's been done, a lot) with a userbase more like the one you described, it would work just fine. It would be difficult though.
The only reason digg doesn't work for you is that you disagree with the majority of it's users.
*prepares to get dugg down* - underthelinux, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14@naterd00d
you are jealous. you WISH you could be a sellout. - Hermitwise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7They better, it is near impossible it seems to search for articles, unless I'm just doing it wrong by using keywords..
- Rhine23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Good little tip. If the search is moving slow. Go to google type in your search. Then at the end of the query type site:digg.com. It works for me most of the time and it's loads faster then the built in search.
- fLUx1337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Just made me think......Kevin Rose is proberly the most liked person in the world!
If you can find anyone who hates Kevin for a real reason, and isn't a total douchebag - please, tell me! - sewalsh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8http://img669.libsyn.com/img669/0c1ccdfb86a0f19075d61dd7954f24b1/45b29aeb/7751/5032/Kevin_Rose.mp3
- joecritch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Still no concise definition... the question of "social bookmarking" or "social news" lives on...
- sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm guessing that anyone who honestly hates Kevin Rose won't be looking at Digg, and are even less likely to read a story that has to do with him.
- Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What is Digg? You're standing in it.
- Hermitwise, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@chriskzoo It's true, I'm not giving him a dime.
- b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The edit time just ran out and I had an idea. How about if everyone had a set of front page stories for their own personal profile? It would work by having friends' diggs automatically having a lot more value, friends of friends having slightly less value and so on.
Theoretically, because the reccomendations are from your friends, you will always be in the 'target audience' - the 'majority of people' that it judges by would be people similar to you (theoretically) and not the whole of the digg userbase, whom you disagree with about what is interesting.
In this way, you could actually have the whole of the myspace userbase having digg accounts (shudder) and theoretically it wouldn't affect the quality of the articles that you see.
There are a couple of problems with this idea though-
-you'd have to have friends on digg, then again this could be solved by making it so that when you digg articles you kind of 'semi-befriend' everyone else who dugg that article, so gradually the diggs you see become more and more honed for you
-it would shut out people who haven't signed up
and probably more. - cru99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Informative.
(Video would've been nice though....j/k) - sewalsh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5direct link to libsyn anyone?
- shyguy01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Interesting what he says about tags
- 8177, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Ya gandhi was a douche
- fLUx1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4lol yeh, I guess! :P
- Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4po6ot, elitist much?
- ij00mini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why are you kidding? The video would have, in fact, been nice to have.
- erikuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's really a duplicate. I bury this!
- sewalsh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5so true.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yeah truer then true
- Soldan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2more fodder for the drooling masses.....somebody please post some real stories..
- mscbuck, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Digg is a safe-haven for all irrational George Bush haters who have nothing better to do but somehow include "death to george bush" in almost every comment, regardless of the topic.
At least that's what I have noticed. - wordsthatendini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Who are all these people that are changing their region codes anyways?
If you travel a ton, which is the only reason I can see for changing the region code often, then renting DVDs in different regions probably isn't the smartest thing to do. - MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -2/+4@mmilian
Actually, I'd like to see Kevin Rose fight a bear. If Stephen Colbert can't take down a bear, I doubt Kevin Rose could. Make for a good show... - ChicGeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah, yeah, yeah it's fanboy heaven, but can he tell me how to live? And laugh? And Love?
- Klitzy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Anyone have a video?
- whicker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What are they going to use as replacement for MySQL anyone understood that bit?
- phanfo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2why does any stories about this guy make it to the page, he created a website, thanks but who cares. what is teh point of making him a demi-God, why his opinion more valued then any others?
i know it won't happen but why does anyone digg this articles. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1
I would have to disagree, frigtard. Digg is more of a social bookmarking site than a news site. You only have to look at the majority of the content posted to make this rationalization. You would have to be an idiot to conclude that Digg is a news site. It's not, and although there are some relevant 'news' stories posted, the majority of the content pertains to lame content (that's usually been repeatedly posted and dated) that the poster finds interesting. - DDRRE, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Definitely front page --> Digg AND Kevin Rose in the title.
- Arcanis, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2What is digg?
A miserable little pile of secrets. - imac79, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?zehBcMit+b0KdLj9+n
- charmaniac, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3baby don't hurt me, no more.
- m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5Bury this as a dupe (it's been submit many times) and it's clearly blog spam.
The conference is called The Future of Web Apps Summit. You can get the mp3 at their official site:
http://www.futureofwebapps.com/pastevents.html (Kevin's talk is right at the top) - TiggyThaiMein, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1His meal ticket.
- Merrick178, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1It's kind of lame how all these links about Digg keep ending up on top. I know what the **** Digg is now let me Digg in peace.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+8Kevin: "Digg is for news.. interview over"
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