Apr
24
Video Comments are a Dumb Idea.
April 24, 2008 | 7 Comments
I see TechCrunch now has integrated commenting via Seesmic videos on all TechCrunch blogs (no surprise given that Michael Arrington is a Seesmic investor).
I can’t help but think that this is an utterly dumb idea - kind of like Seesmic itself.
I can see why people would prefer to leave a video comment. I understand that […]
Mar
13
Digg is planning to expand to Germany
March 13, 2008 | 3 Comments
I missed this yesterday, but German business newspaper “Handelsblatt,” in an interview with Kevin Rose (Google translated site here), reports that Digg is planning to expand into the German speaking market within the next 12 to 24 months.
I would say it’s about time - after all, there are already various digg clones on the German […]
Jan
30
VoteOften: A Better Digg for Politics
January 30, 2008 | 1 Comment
Very few Digg clones manage to impress me these days. They mostly stand out because of their complete lack of innovation.
VoteOften.us, however, which is still in private beta (see last paragraph for how to get an invite), is doing some innovating things, with a focus on politics. With the US presidential election heating up, I […]
Jan
29
Brad Stone of the New York Times’ Bits blog features an interesting commentary on Digg by Slashdot’s CmdrTaco, aka. Rob Malda, today.
In it, Malda basically questions how effective a site like Digg (and for that matter, reddit as well) can be run if there is only a small group of vocal users that have made […]
Jan
22
Reddit announced some new features today. Most importantly, they will soon give you the opportunity to run your own reddit:
You will be able to make three kinds of reddits: public, restricted, and private. A public reddit is just like the current reddits: anyone can view and submit to them. A restricted reddit allows anyone to […]
Dec
5
Digg vs. Reddit
December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment
Interesting comparison of Digg and Reddit over at Social News Watch.
The article is clearly written to get some traction over on digg and reddit (and the author admits so). According to the article, digg is superior to reddit in almost every category.
The author also contents that it is difficult to cross over between the […]
Dec
3
Just went over to Digg and it looks like the long promised image section has finally arrived.
Only one question: what took them so long? There is nothing really spectacular going on there. And somewhat interestingly, the top two posts right now feature pictures from flickr, without a thumbnail…
Mathew Ingram notes that Digg has implemented some […]
Nov
20
Digg just added an Election Coverage section called Digg the Candidates.
Great idea and nice execution, just a shame that you can’t really digg the candidates but just befriend them.
I wonder how/if they got all the candidates (and/or their staffers) to sign up for this.
Also, as one might expect, the campaigns only digg their own […]
Nov
13
Free WSJ articles through Digg - but why?
November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment
Hat off to Kevin Rose for getting this deal done:
The Wall Street Journal Online is adding Digg buttons across the entire site, and you’ll now have full (free) access to the articles submitted to Digg. The Digg buttons have started appearing on WSJ.com articles tonight.
I guess this is one small move in modernizing the Wall […]
Nov
9
Why Nobody is Buying Digg
November 9, 2007 | 2 Comments
There is a post on Digg today about the video ads that are running on the site right now which I think perfectly exemplifies why nobody is buying Digg:
DIGG: Please stop with the $!&@ front page video ads!
Yeah, I know, you need to make money, fine. But it seems like every time I bring Digg […]
Sep
10
Looks like digg.com is down right now. Might there finally be a picture section in our (very near) future?
Update: Nah - it’s back up and nothing interesting happened.
Technorati tags: digg
Jun
22
Digg just updated its comment system and it is bad. Very bad. It’s is slow and not very pleasing on the eye. Daniel Burka has a good post up explaining Digg’s decision making process from the inside perspective.
Right now, the number one and two digg story of the last 24 hours are negative stories about […]
May
4
If you still can’t get enough of the Digg revolt over the HD-DVD code, Jason Calacanis has an interview with Jay Adelson and Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fred von Lohmann.
Good listening.
Just one question: How come Jay Adelson is now doing all the PR work for Digg instead of Kevin Rose? He used to be the quiet […]
May
2
I was blown away by the reaction on Digg and in the blogosphere around the posting and removal of the HD-DVD code on Digg.com yesterday.
Have a look at Techmeme as of 8am PST today. Most of the page is taken up by stories about this. Even the iPhone didn’t create that kind of reaction. […]
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