What is Digg?23 Comments
- SG-1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Direct link: http://l8tr.org/
- Kosterfield, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I wonder how long until we kill it...
- zetamilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8So they have an excuse if it fails.
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4dunno. Maybe you can have it let you know when it's ready.
- m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I just tested it on a website that was up and received notification that it is up within a few minutes. This kind of technology is interesting, seeing as it could lead to a "second wave digg effect" some hours after the first wave.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So wait, how does it check whether or not the site is up? If it uses some type of ping or http request, couldn't that further the damage? Especially if it takes all l8tr requests as unique (e.g. if tom, dick and harry all wanted to see if wtfnoob.com was back up, whether or not it would group the request or make a separate check for each email).
- tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3why is it BETA? why is every other gosh darn new website i hear about in a "public beta" stage? its tacky.
- sabotank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4thumbs up for the name and icon!
- eridius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It seems far more likely that it checks the site once per some time interval (half an hour? an hour? I dunno), and simply records everybody who asks for the same site so it can inform them all when the check succeeds.
- emosewami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I won't bury it on name alone, but it is dumb. Is it supposed to be like "Latater"? Because that sounds lame...
- m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well I would assume that it would group cache's, instead of having 1 site cached 30,000 times, so I would also assume it sent out 1 ping per unique website. That is what I would assume.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or just bookmark the site, and view it later.
- tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dude. noone would pay for that.
they'd just bookmark it and look at it later that day, or the next morning.
he can make extra money by including ads in his emails - Barryke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Beta;
A version of an application that is made available prior to the official release for the purposes of testing.
Simply put it means they want to improve and expand it more, before starting work on its successor. - Jonty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's what I was thinking: won't it contribute to the effect? I assume they actually use a form of mailing list, which is created when the site can't be found in existsing ones, and they do, say, 30 second checks on the site which shouldn't hurt too much (unless it's one of those FreeBSD-on-a-toaster type servers...)
- Barryke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Yes, this service is totally free; no, you will not receive spam from us" - from http://l8tr.org/
Well DOH: he sells your email to other people, and théy send you some spam. - ahknight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1l8r.org is a porn shop. That might have something to do with it.
- pixelperfect, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3DIGG of official site rather than this blogspam:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Overloaded_web_page_reminder_service - pixelperfect, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Sorry dupe Comment, just how how can you Digg this one!
- suprchunk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Buried for a horrible name. The number eight already has a 't' in it. There is no need to have the 't' after the '8'. Almost as bad as "atm machine" and so forth. Not quite as annoying but getting there.
- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0If the site ever takes off, here's a way to make more money off of it on top of AdSense:
Offer tiered notifications for when a site is back online. Explain that it's rude to have all 300,000 users to visit a site once it's back online, so in order to separate those who really want to visit the sites from the more casual users who are just rubbernecking, the serious users will have to prove they are serious.
The only way to separate the serious from the non-serious is to, of course, charge the serious people $X a month to be informed 2 hours before the non-serious people. Maybe allow some *super* serious users to pay $X + N a month for an even more immediate notification. - m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Pretty damn spiffy.
- jsanders, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3then it'll be duggmirrored. a mirror so we can see it before it comes up again
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