What is Digg?112 Comments
- slapded, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32i think the spacebar is the most important key on the keyboard
- Mootabolife, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2551, Chuck Norris, Receiving End Of, Chuck Norris Jokes
The one time action hero movie star, Chuck Norris rose to internet stardom when some immature 1337 h4x0r decided to make jokes about him. Chuck Norris quickly rose through the ranks of godliness and is now immortalized on the internet along with his round-house kick. - misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Sorry for comment abuse, but here's the direct link to PC World (includes pics and more links): http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,129301/printable.html#
- jcounterman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22They had me a Rose and Laporte...they lost me at Tila Tequila...
As Dvorak always says (and I paraphrase), these lists are *****. - jcapogna, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25NO THE CAPS LOCK KEY IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT
- themarq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17While I agree whole-heartedly with Kevin Rose being included on this list, I am dreading the inevitable ass-kissing that is about to ensue in this thread.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Are you serious? Most people don't even know what Digg is. Digg might have the power to redirect a fairly large amount of traffic to a particular site, but scaled against Google (or any major search engine) it's nothing. It might rank in the top 20 for the US by Alexa, but that's because its userbase is so loyal, not because of its sheer size.
The internet existed before Digg, and it will exist after Digg. The internet existed before Slashdot. When I think about that Digg is, it's a "quicker" version of Slashdot with younger (and thus larger) userbase.
Don't be so proud of this technological terror you've constructed Mr. Kevin Rose. The ability to crash a webserver is insignificant next to the power of the suction of the tubes. - DurkaMcDurk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21If Tila Tequila made the list... it doesn't get my digg
- Stunn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Drew Curtis and Kevin Rose have the same kind of influence.
The only reason a lot of people even know about Drew Curtis is because of "Drew Curtis' FARK.com" . He goes on television and on radios occasionally and I've seen him post a few times on TotalFark. He says things I agree with so when he talks, I listen. Big whoop. I bet there are a lot of people who don't give a damn about Drew who go to FARK. If there were a whole bunch of farkers complaining about something, Drew would probably make a post and explain himself. The least Kevin can do is explain why he doesn't want a Pictures section on his site.
Kevin Rose just needs to post on digg and users would flock to him. Diggers might not even agree with whatever he says and they would still dig him up. He could be drunk and post a stupid article and Diggers will still digg the story up. I like Kevin's tech knowledge, thats it. I don't care about his opinions, I don't care about new digg features, and I don't care what he has to say. I really stopped watching The ScreenSavers religiously when Kevin was a host because he bugged the crap out of me. Here on digg, everyone and their uncle talks about Kevin as if he cared. You all just talk about him, he shows up and says somethings, goes away, and you guys praise him.
People do flock around Drew too, but least Drew is willing to hang out and have a drink with his members.
Also, when Leo Laporte started going to an IRC chatroom, everyone flocked to him. It ticked me off because I was having a decent conversation with about three people and they all stopped and attempted to talk to Leo. He would just say something and then everyone would put their two cents in. Whenever the topic differed from what Leo wanted, he just left the chatroom. It ticked me off and I stopped going to the chat server. The people in the chat were just there to attempt to be friends with a guy who didn't want to be their friend. I don't know how it is now and I quite frankly don't care.
Just digg me down already. Don't prove me wrong. Digg me down and move on. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11yahoo is the ugliest website in the world. renders terribly on every browser.
- evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12My name is not on this list. Therefore it is utterly wrong.
- guillermox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Where's Al "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" Gore?!?
- Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I want to give props to the submitter. Thanks for submitting an article mentioning Kevin without "zOMG Kevin Rose is 32!!!" in the description.
That said, it's nice to see anyone from Digg getting props, so congrats. - Smeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I didnt know Kevin's last name was RoseFounder.
All in all, good list - Dweller99, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Drew Curtis?
oh please. Important to the little world unto itself that is Fark, but outside of that one site who tf would have any clue who he is? even at Fark, what influence does he have? Cashing your TF subscription checks and posting new banner ads? - Beakerz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12No Mr. Gates? haha
- dcipjr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web."
What? Lies! Marked innaccurate. ;-) - IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1432. Kevin Rose, Founder, Digg
Everyone who has a story on the Web wants Kevin Rose's users to "digg it." The former TechTV host (and colleague of Leo Laporte--see #47) founded Digg.com in 2004, bringing the power of social networking to the news. Digg's algorithm lets users submit their favorite news stories and vote them up (or down). Digg's expansion beyond technology news to mainstream news categories in June 2006 prompted BusinessWeek to slap a goofy-looking picture of Rose on its cover along with an eyebrow-raising valuation estimate of $60 million. Whether Rose is a multimillionaire or not, his site has plenty of clout on the Internet. - kavaliro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Bzzt. Clearly this is all just opinion, but obviously not a very good one. Note the lack of:
Eric Raymond
John Dvorak
Richard Stallman
Linus Torvalds
....
Love them or hate them, they have WAY more influence than, say, "a MySpace Personality."
That's just from the Open Source field. There's other segments of the web I could touch on, way more influential than people listed here. Hell, Wil Wheaton has more influence than half these people. This was all about being a Digg whore, and very little about anything else. Certainly little thought went into it, beyond making sure Kevin was mentioned. - thealliedhacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'd have to add Gabe/Tycho from Penny-Arcade to that list.
- mrlyons, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8heh, Time wasn't as wrong as you think. Without us clicking, reading, raving, forwarding, and digging these websites and people would be just as meaningless as this comment which is guarenteed -diggs because i have an original opinion and i'm not trying to be mindlessly funny.
go ahead and digg me down twits. - cinnix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Where's the man now dog?
- bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7with all due respect to Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose -> #32 and Berners-Lee-> #46 . Now thats ***** up, bigtime. - oscarsonthepond, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Steve Jobs is number 2 and bill gates is not on the list....this is very accurate and unbiased.
- hansonc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6ass kisser
- Radan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's actually kinda sad that, even though being such a "nerd" that I am, I have never heard about lots of people on that list.
- SirBotchness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i concur
- jayswain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Tim Burners Lee # 40 something...... Steve Jobs # 2? wtf?!
I'm love my mac, but Tim is way more 1337 then Steve is. - Kahnza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5it already started
- Dhalsim007, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Congrats to Kevin Rose for No. 32!!!
But I'm impressed at Mike Arrington of TechCrunch getting in at No. 30 ... that site is so young, yet has made an impact quickly. Very nice! And dittos to Leo Laporte at No. 47, who's got a little empire going on the podcast side.
Tila Tequila at No. 50? .... errrrrr ..... I wouldn't call her "important" in the grand scale of things.... - siliconentity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The weird thing about these examples - youtube, myspace, craigslist - is that there's a completely different web architecture that could have happened, but didn't.
Services like youtube, myspace, ebay, flickr, etc, etc, all provide two main pieces: a place to put content, and some mechanism to search and find other people's content. The point is, there's no real reason these have to be combined.
We could easily have had much more decentralized services, where the focus was on searching for particular kinds of content, while storage of content was reserved to sites that were optimized for that service. You'd basically have web hosting sites where you'd put up your items for sale, or your videos, or your weblog, etc. And then you'd have some site you could ping to tell it that you had this new kind of content, so it would show up in searches. Or you could even just rely on spiders to notice your new content.
Then you could have your ebay, myspace, youtube, craigslist, blogger, etc., in a much less centralized structure. Offloading the storage costs means that the search service could be much cheaper to run. It might even be open source and free.
I really don't understand why we have so many single-purpose sites and services which combine the search and storage functions. It seems like a much more generalized structure would work just as well, and that way people wouldn't be locked into specific services as they are today. I can't help wondering if we might see a transition to this kind of decentralized web content in the next few years.
In that case, the big brains this article wants to celebrate behind craigslist and youtube and everything else will be seen as big pigs who were trying to monetize and monopolize services which are, at root, extremely simple, and which can be provided at much lower cost using decentralized technology and services that are available to everyone. - darkcaps, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wheres Max Goldberg?
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Agreed. If the judge of importance on the internet is whether or not you've co-starred in an Adam Sandler film as "that dumb bitch", I'm quitting my web design job, lighting my computer on fire and living in the forest for the rest of my life.
- maximized99, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Seriously Gabe, time for a new phone...
38. Gabe Rivera
Creator, Techmeme
http://images.pcworld.com/news/graphics/129301-38_Gabe_Rivera.jpg - DocDEB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Fifty! Damn, they must have had a lot of coffee and donuts that morning or maybe it was a seven course dinner meeting.
- cmv0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, it was a typo: its RoseFlounder.
- Gir53457, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3# 53 That annoying guy who sits next to Kevin Rose on every digg Nation. Mr. "Like oh my god! I'm being sarcastic! Nee nee nee nee nee!"
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Especially the reason that he is on the list.
"No doubt you're sick of the media bonanza surrounding the every move of Apple's CEO, but when one man's appeal for DRM-free music reverberates around the world, it's hard to ignore the power he wields. Jobs popularized legal music downloads and legal TV and movie downloads. And though the iPhone won't be released for five months, its demonstration at MacWorld Expo suggested that this product might finally popularize Internet browsing on a mobile device."
1) The iPhone hasn't ***** been released. How is it influental? It "might" fail, that doesn't mean you should put Apple on 2007's list of Products that Flopped
2) He introduced DRM'd music to the web.
3) Legal music downloads and legal TV / Movie downloads? iTunes Music Store is smaller than they make it out to be. It wasn't the "first" anything, and the majority of people don't use iTMS.
You know what? They didn't even mention the word "Napster" on this list. Napster was way, way more influential than iTMS. I've got more music from Napster (three songs) than I have from iTMS (one song).
I'm not saying Jobs shouldn't be on the list. There is just no way that he should be #2. He didn't invent anything. iTMS wasn't the first legal music download product, nor is it the best. The majority of people avoid it don't use it because it isn't free, and it's got heavy DRM.
In my opinion, it should be something like
1) Google
2) Napster
3) BitTorrent
4) Wikipedia
5) World of Warcraft
6) Youtube
7) Craigslist
8) DrudgeReport (another thing they didn't acknowledge)
9) Myspace
10) Skype - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5It's really sad that that man could sell a plastic bag full of dog *****, stamp it with a picture of a fruit, and lable it The iCrap, and people would still buy it. Yea, iPods are pretty nice, yea, OS X is pretty neat and all, but people really need to quit worshiping Apple and Jobs.
- spankaccount, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm NOT surprised PowerLine made this list.... It's the site to go to if you care about politics and U.S. law.
- edilclyde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Max Goldberg deserves to be there.. and the guy who invented internet porn...
- powersrobin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No one will be replacing cnn until the top story is something other than "Pointless Family Photo of the Year - Pic" ... that's just silly.
- nimawin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2cuz he sucks ass!
- YusufYusuf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I wonder why Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.com didn't get a mention?
- JDWTC, on 10/12/2007, -11/+13Rob Malda and Drew Curtis are way, way, way more important than Kevin Rose.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Whoever came up with the whole xBox live thing should be on there
- wvaughnm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4No Drudge. Who ever made this list is not paying very much attention. This guy gets over 4 billion hits per year and often times breaks stories long before others do. If I want the immediate scoop I click the Drudge Report...
- vemon388, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4How About Mark Shuttleworth?
- RoflMyWaffle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3where's Dvorak?
- Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Why is Steve Jobs even on it. I would think important people on the web count as people that improve the web, or offer a popular service or functionality that changes the way people view or use the web. iTunes is just a store using the web. Sure, it has high traffic flow, but the web would look the same if iTunes never existed. Apple hasn't done anything to improve or contribute to the web (except contribute to the design craze of glassy buttons). And Steve's Job's lame appeal for DRM-Free music? Come on. This is a guy profiting from an online store that has sold over a billion DRM protected files, whining about the fact that music isn't DRM free. And Apple AGGRESSIVELY goes after anybody trying to break Apple's DRM. He's ranked as the NUMBER TWO most important person on the web?
I mean, what about Adobe/Macromedia and Flash. While many people whined about using Flash as a way to develop websites, how many times on Digg do we see "Amazing Flash Game" these days? Or the fact that Flash is quickly becoming the most popular way to distribute video? Flash has gained in popularity over the last year alone, and with the current generation game consoles offering direct web connectivity, Flash gaming, video and applications will become more engaging and ubiquitous. Flash is pretty much entering is prime now, and doesn't even get mentioned as being important. Also consider Adobe IS the company that designs the professional tools to create online websites, I would add and rank Adobe's CEO over Steve Jobs on this list.
I crave the day people stopped kissing Steve Job's ass. The guy gets more praise for doing less then anybody I know. -
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