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Digg - People. Places. Things.

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:53:23 +0000

Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team. This wasn't a decision made lightly, and it's important to say clearly: this is one of the strongest groups of people we've ever had the privilege of working with. This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed.

Tags: #digg #social #web

Presentation: Cassandra in Production @ Digg - Arin Sarkissian « MyNoSQL

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:18:40 +0000

"It looks like the Digg guys are the most public about their usage of Cassandra. Arin’s presentation below is a bit less technical than the ☞ article published a while back, but also has some nice additions."

Tags: #cassandra #digg #nosql #webdev

Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing Digg’s IDDB Infrastructure

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:26:27 +0000

Tags: #digg #diggbar #iddb #php #phpunit #scalability #webdev

The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:09:04 +0000

"I want starting a Digg-like community to be as easy as creating a weblog on blogger.com."

Tags: #communities #digg #metablogging #publishing

This shirt says that only one person Diggs you | Crave : The gadget blog

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:53:08 +0000

"the only way to get more Diggs with this T-shirt is to get punched in the sternum. It figures, doesn't it?"

Tags: #digg #funny #tshirt

Digg - The Konami Code Works on Digg

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:00:10 +0000

"This was noted in the Contra 4 DS digg, but it is just so cool everyone needs to know about it. Just use your keyboard to type the Konami Code (Up key, Up key, Down key, Down key, Left key, Right key, Left key, Right key, B, A, then Enter/Return) to expa

Tags: #digg #eastereggs #gaming #konami #web20

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: What happens when you build a company without owning any IP?

Thu, 03 May 2007 17:37:40 +0000

"because, um, Digg doesn't really have anything other than these crazy users and they live in constant fear that the party will move on to some other place."

Tags: #digg #hddvd #social #web20

Digg Surrenders to Mob

Wed, 02 May 2007 15:21:04 +0000

"To say what happened today on Digg was a “user revolt” is an understatement."

Tags: #digg #hddvd #ugh #web20

Digg API

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:22:16 +0000

"The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg."

Tags: #api #digg #webdev #webservices

Why Digg is More Popular than Del.icio.us… Or is it?

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:47:58 +0000

"Kevin Rose takes full advantage of the Internet’s Cult of Personality by throwing himself in the media spotlight while Joshua is more of a behind the scenes master of technology."

Tags: #delicious #digg #joshua #kevinrose #web20

HypeFighter: Social Bookmark Combat

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:26:52 +0000

"HypeFighter is a cross between a user-contributed content site and a turn-based massively multiplayer online game. Basically, it's a cross between Digg and Dark Throne."

Tags: #digg #gaming #news #odd

Ryan Tomayko - Digg Scares Me (403 Go Away!)

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:49:34 +0000

"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it because you're coming from digg.com and the proprietor of this system is frankly terrified by you people."

Tags: #digg #funny #goaway #http

Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard ‽ Blog Archive ‽ Business Week followup: Valuing assets

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:41:08 +0000

'Digg is a great site and a great service, and someday it may be worth a big pile of actual dollars, and many of those dollars may end up in Kevin Rose's pocket. But until then he has simply not "made" millions of dollars.'

Tags: #businessweek #digg #media #money #press #web20

Three guys solder a new firewire chip for 8 hours

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:04:17 +0000

"Pfft, idiots - they could have been driving an imaginary bus to vegas for that time."

Tags: #digg #durr #funny #hacks #hardware

Wired News: Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:05:34 +0000

"But Digg ... is pointing the way to a new wave of socially assembled news initiatives, organized and made sense of by readers themselves."

Tags: #delicious #digg #web20