Comments on: Digg dug own grave

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:39:00 +0000

Ring a bell, Boing Boing?

*cough* Submitterator *cough*

By: Jer_00

Jer_00 — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:22:00 +0000

Google is constantly changing their algorithms to more effectively combat the SEO leeches. That’s been true since they first went online.

By: Glen Kiltz

Glen Kiltz — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:28:00 +0000

Although Digg did turn out to be useful more often than not.

By: elix

elix — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:54:00 +0000

I haven’t cared about Digg since 09 F9. Sooo… this isn’t surprising to me.

By: stuck411

stuck411 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:15:00 +0000

Google does seem to be changing their algorithms to reduce the impact of aggregators and their ilk. I don’t do anything with their e-commerce but in doing research it’s nice not having to start half way down the page to find the ‘real’ information.

By: EH

EH — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:53:00 +0000

Smaller businesses can’t come up with 5-6 videos?

By: Charles-A Rovira

Charles-A Rovira — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:45:00 +0000

When it got confusing and confused I moved on.

The click whores who are there now are just noise makers in an echo chamber.

By: Joe Witherspoon

Joe Witherspoon — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:52:00 +0000

In fact the same sort of thing is happening with Google in e-commerce. Expert marketeers, bloggers, video-makers and so forth spam Google with 5-6 videos, blogs, product pages, meta tags, nameless Facebook postings about every single product they sell. They get to own the top rankings on any item and smaller businesses lose market share.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:41:00 +0000

I don’t think we’ll see another bubble, the likes of which we’ve seen before.

The internet is a very different place to what it used to me, and I’d argue that business’s online aren’t all that different to business offline. Some flourish, some are here today, gone tomorrow and some will probably stick around forever.

I think that Digg just lost their way.

iOS took over a little there, excuse the typos.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:37:00 +0000

I’d actually forgotten that Digg even existed. And I work with the web for a living.

I’m surprised they managed to sell it all.

By: EH

EH — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:20:00 +0000

Ugh, glue-gun crap.

By: EH

EH — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:18:00 +0000

No, it’s related to Digg getting acquired for $500K yesterday when they turned down $200MM from Google years ago..

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:08:00 +0000

So between this & the Facebook IPO is another dot-com bubble slowly deflating?

By: jarmstrong

jarmstrong — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:44:00 +0000

Apparently an artist captured the event in a felt collage, which is available on etsy.

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:05:00 +0000

Incidentally, I wonder if this news is at all related to the recent(and much bemoaned, primarily by the previously successful link farmers) reddit purge of certain sites seen as excessively spammy?

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:09:00 +0000

Dear ‘crowdsourced’/'participatory’/government 2.0′/etc. digital direct democracy pipe dreamers,

We would like to bring to your attention the fact that the internet has a brutal, inhuman, and utterly hardened class of SEO-jocky ‘social media consultant’, amoral clickwhores who would sell their own mothers for a .1% conversion rate bump and spend their careers destroying organic communities in order to monetize the social friendscape…

Now imagine, if you will, that non-pathetic amounts of money were on the table.

Have a nice day.

By: franko

franko — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:49:00 +0000

i see what u did there….

By: royaltrux

royaltrux — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:48:00 +0000

Do the Digs Dug http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzFAVIkIIGk