Digg Rehauling The Comment System
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 | 205 ViewsDigg.com, the user-generated news web site is known for the famous homepage stories and the witty comments made by the user community. Everything gets voted on including the quality of the comments. If your comment is not good enough for the community, they’ll vote it down and it gets buried.
Digg will be [...]
Digg CEO Denies Acquisition Rumor, Possibly Over Pressure
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Saturday, March 8th, 2008 | 598 Views“Normally our policy is to not comment about things like this, but this morning’s rumors about a bidding war involving Google and Microsoft have created such a stir we feel compelled to tell you all directly that they are completely inaccurate,” stated Digg CEO, Jay Adelson. “Sorry to burst any drama theories, but they [...]
New Algorithm Further Dethrones The Digg Mafia
3 COMMENTS | Amit Chowdhry | Thursday, January 24th, 2008 | 384 Views“Just wanted to give everyone some insight into some of the changes we’ve been making this week. As we’ve talked about in the past, Digg’s promotional algorithm ensures that the most popular content dugg by a diverse, unique group of diggers reaches the home page. Our goal is to give each person a [...]
History Of The Web: Part 1 (Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Netscape, Microsoft, Digg)
ADD A COMMENT | Shan Sadiq | Monday, January 21st, 2008 | 203 ViewsApple.com 1998
Apple.com 2008
Google 1998
Google 2008
Yahoo! 1998
Yahoo! 2008
Netscape.com 1998
Netscape.com 2008
Microsoft.com 1998
Microsoft.com 2008
Digg.com 1998
Digg.com 2008
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Revision3 Launches Awesome Concept, Digg Reel Program
1 COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Thursday, January 17th, 2008 | 164 ViewsRevision3 has recently unleashed a new show within their network of programming called Digg Reel. Digg Reel unveils what some of the top video picks popular enough to make it to the homepage within Digg.com. The TV show launched around 9PM Pacific Time and at the same time, Kevin Rose was hosting a party [...]
The Netscape Browser Will Be Missed
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Friday, January 4th, 2008 | 139 Views
Thomas L. Friedman, a contributor to The New York Times and author of best-selling book, The World is Flat wrote that there are “10 flatteners” that contributed to mass-globalization. The 10 flatteners are:
1.) Collapse of Berlin Wall (11/9/1989) - The end of the Cold War allowed those on the other side to join [...]
Social Networks, Bebo And Digg Hire Financial Brokers
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Thursday, December 20th, 2007 | 204 Views
DIGG
The acquisitions that Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, and eBay have made over the last year has made
things a lot more interesting. Between these 4 companies, they have acquired social networks and VoIP technologies that have banking companies swooning just like they were in the late 90’s and early 2000’s.
During Digg’s tenure as a Web [...]
While Microsoft Is Out Courting Facebook; Digg Gets Neglected
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Thursday, October 25th, 2007 | 204 Views“I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! I invented the piano key necktie, I invented it!” yelled Mugatu at the audience of his Derelicte campaign centered around professional male model, Derek Zoolander. For some reason, reading about Eric Schmidt’s reaction on whether there is a Google phone reminded me of the aforementioned scene [...]
Why Digg.com Should Have Opened A Social Network Earlier
2 COMMENTS | Amit Chowdhry | Thursday, September 20th, 2007 | 118 ViewsWhy did Facebook grow so fast? Page views!! How did Facebook get so many page views initially? E-mail notifications!! What does Digg have now? E-mail notifications!! That is correct ladies and gentlemen: you will now see that Digg will start receiving a lot more page views, hence [...]
