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Digg started out as an experiment in November 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson. Only Kevin and Ron still play an active role in the management of the site. The original design was free of advertisements, and was designed by Dan Ries. As Digg became more popular, Google [[AdSense]] was added to the website. In July 2005, the site was updated to Version 2.0. The new version featured a friends list, the ability to "digg" a story without being redirected to a success page, and a new interface designed by web design company silverorange.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.silverorange.com/a/portfolio/digg |title=Digg |publisher=silverorange |date= |accessdate=2009-02-27}}</ref> The site developers have stated that in future versions a more minimalist design will likely be employed. On Monday June 26, 2006 version 3 of Digg was released with specific categories for Technology, Science, World & Business, Videos, Entertainment and Gaming as well as a View All section where all categories are merged. Digg has grown large enough that submissions sometimes create a sudden increase of traffic to the "dugg" website. This is referred to by some Digg users as the "[[Digg effect]]" and by some others as the site being "dugg to death." However, in many cases stories are linked simultaneously on several popular bookmarking sites. In such cases, the impact of the "digg effect" is difficult to isolate and assess. On August 27, 2007, Digg altered its main interface, mostly in the profile area. The domain "digg.com" attracted at least 236 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a [[Compete.com]] survey.<ref>[http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com?metric=uv Compete.com]</ref>
Digg started out as an experiment in November 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson. Only Kevin and Ron still play an active role in the management of the site. The original design was free of advertisements, and was designed by Dan Ries. As Digg became more popular, Google [[AdSense]] was added to the website. In July 2005, the site was updated to Version 2.0. The new version featured a friends list, the ability to "digg" a story without being redirected to a success page, and a new interface designed by web design company silverorange.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.silverorange.com/a/portfolio/digg |title=Digg |publisher=silverorange |date= |accessdate=2009-02-27}}</ref> The site developers have stated that in future versions a more minimalist design will likely be employed. On Monday June 26, 2006 version 3 of Digg was released with specific categories for Technology, Science, World & Business, Videos, Entertainment and Gaming as well as a View All section where all categories are merged. Digg has grown large enough that submissions sometimes create a sudden increase of traffic to the "dugg" website. This is referred to by some Digg users as the "[[Digg effect]]" and by some others as the site being "dugg to death." However, in many cases stories are linked simultaneously on several popular bookmarking sites. In such cases, the impact of the "digg effect" is difficult to isolate and assess. On August 27, 2007, Digg altered its main interface, mostly in the profile area. The domain "digg.com" attracted at least 236 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a [[Compete.com]] survey.<ref>[http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com?metric=uv Compete.com]</ref>


Digg CEO Jay Adelson explained at the 2010 "Bigg Digg Shindigg," which is part of the South by Southwest Interactive Conference, that Digg is getting a major overhaul and redesign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mashable.com/2010/03/13/new-digg/ |title=New Version of Digg |publisher=Mashable |date= |accessdate=2010-03-15}}</ref> In an interview with Wired magazine, Adelson explained that "Every single thing has changed" and that "the entire website has been rewritten."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/digg-redesign-social-web/ |title=Wired Interview |publisher=Wired |date= |accessdate=2010-03-15}}</ref> Adelson explains that the new Digg will essentially eliminate the duplication problem. It will also help prevent so called 'power users' from dominating the site with their submissions. The new Digg will also offer users a personalized homepage, based on their diggs, that is tailored to their specific interests. The commenting system will be updated to "help fight bad behavior like trolling or group-burying." The entire look of the site will also change. Adelson summed up the new Digg by saying, “We’ve got a new backend, a new infrastructure layer, a new services layer, new machines — everything." John Quinn wrote in a Digg blog post that the company was going to stop using [[MySQL]] and begin using [[Apache Cassandra|Cassandra]], a distributed database system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://about.digg.com/blog/saying-yes-nosql-going-steady-cassandra/ |title=Cassandra Switch |publisher=Digg |date= |accessdate=2010-03-15}}</ref> Currently users can sign up to alpha test the new version of Digg.
Digg CEO Jay Adelson explained at the 2010 "Bigg Digg Shindigg," which is part of the South by Southwest Interactive Conference, that Digg is getting a major overhaul and redesign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mashable.com/2010/03/13/new-digg/ |title=New Version of Digg |publisher=Mashable |date= |accessdate=2010-03-15}}</ref> In an interview with Wired magazine, Adelson explained that "Every single thing has changed" and that "the entire website has been rewritten."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/digg-redesign-social-web/ |title=Wired Interview |publisher=Wired |date= |accessdate=2010-03-15}}</ref> Adelson explains that the new Digg will essentially eliminate the duplication problem. It will also help prevent so called 'power users' from dominating the site with their submissions. The new Digg will also offer users a personalized homepage, based on their diggs, that is tailored to their specific interests. The commenting system will be updated to "help fight bad behavior like trolling or group-burying." The entire look of the site will also change. Adelson summed up the new Digg by saying, “We’ve got a new backend, a new infrastructure layer, a new services layer, new machines — everything." John Quinn wrote in a Digg blog post that the company was going to stop using [[MySQL]] and begin using [[Apache Cassandra|Cassandra]], a distributed database system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://about.digg.com/blog/saying-yes-nosql-going-steady-cassandra/ |title=Cassandra Switch |publisher=Digg |date= |accessdate=2010-03-15}}</ref>


On April 5, 2010, Kevin Rose announced that he would be assuming the position of CEO as Jay Adelson had stepped down.<ref>http://about.digg.com/blog/update-jay</ref> Although, some time later he has disclosed that he is actively seeking a replacement CEO as the role takes up too much of his time that he would rather spend doing other things, such as angel investing.
On April 5, 2010, Kevin Rose announced that he would be assuming the position of CEO as Jay Adelson had stepped down.<ref>http://about.digg.com/blog/update-jay</ref> Although, some time later he has disclosed that he is actively seeking a replacement CEO as the role takes up too much of his time that he would rather spend doing other things, such as angel investing.


On August 25, 2010, Digg released v4. The site experienced a number of bugs and glitches that has resulted in a backlash from Digg users.
On August 25, 2010, Digg released v4. The site experienced a number of bugs and glitches that has resulted in a backlash from Digg users. The traffic has fallen 32 percent mainly from hatred of RSS-submitted entries from major corporations.


===Potential sale===
===Potential sale===

Revision as of 09:18, 30 August 2010

Digg, Inc.
Digg logo
File:Digg screenshot.png
Digg's "Top News" section, as seen on 27 August 2010
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
Social news
Available inMultilingual
FoundedSan Francisco, California, United States[1]
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)Kevin Rose[2]
Key peopleKevin Rose (Founder) (CEO)
Jay Adelson (ex-CEO)
John Moffett (CFO)
Owen Byrne (Co-Founder)
Ron Gorodetzky (Co-Founder)
RevenueUS$8.5 million (2008 est.)[3]
Employees77[2]
URLwww.digg.com
AdvertisingBanner ads, referral marketing
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedDecember 5, 2004 (2004-12-05)
Current statusActive

Digg is a social news website. Formerly, the site's cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively, but as of Digg v4, the "bury" function has been removed. Also, as of v4, users can no longer see all of the submitted content, but must instead subscribe to a user's feed to see what has been submitted. Digg's popularity has prompted the creation of other social networking sites with story submission and voting systems.[5] The website traffic ranked 116th by Alexa.com as of June 21, 2010.[4]

History and description

Digg, Version 1.5

Digg started out as an experiment in November 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson. Only Kevin and Ron still play an active role in the management of the site. The original design was free of advertisements, and was designed by Dan Ries. As Digg became more popular, Google AdSense was added to the website. In July 2005, the site was updated to Version 2.0. The new version featured a friends list, the ability to "digg" a story without being redirected to a success page, and a new interface designed by web design company silverorange.[6] The site developers have stated that in future versions a more minimalist design will likely be employed. On Monday June 26, 2006 version 3 of Digg was released with specific categories for Technology, Science, World & Business, Videos, Entertainment and Gaming as well as a View All section where all categories are merged. Digg has grown large enough that submissions sometimes create a sudden increase of traffic to the "dugg" website. This is referred to by some Digg users as the "Digg effect" and by some others as the site being "dugg to death." However, in many cases stories are linked simultaneously on several popular bookmarking sites. In such cases, the impact of the "digg effect" is difficult to isolate and assess. On August 27, 2007, Digg altered its main interface, mostly in the profile area. The domain "digg.com" attracted at least 236 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey.[7]

Digg CEO Jay Adelson explained at the 2010 "Bigg Digg Shindigg," which is part of the South by Southwest Interactive Conference, that Digg is getting a major overhaul and redesign.[8] In an interview with Wired magazine, Adelson explained that "Every single thing has changed" and that "the entire website has been rewritten."[9] Adelson explains that the new Digg will essentially eliminate the duplication problem. It will also help prevent so called 'power users' from dominating the site with their submissions. The new Digg will also offer users a personalized homepage, based on their diggs, that is tailored to their specific interests. The commenting system will be updated to "help fight bad behavior like trolling or group-burying." The entire look of the site will also change. Adelson summed up the new Digg by saying, “We’ve got a new backend, a new infrastructure layer, a new services layer, new machines — everything." John Quinn wrote in a Digg blog post that the company was going to stop using MySQL and begin using Cassandra, a distributed database system.[10]

On April 5, 2010, Kevin Rose announced that he would be assuming the position of CEO as Jay Adelson had stepped down.[11] Although, some time later he has disclosed that he is actively seeking a replacement CEO as the role takes up too much of his time that he would rather spend doing other things, such as angel investing.

On August 25, 2010, Digg released v4. The site experienced a number of bugs and glitches that has resulted in a backlash from Digg users. The traffic has fallen 32 percent mainly from hatred of RSS-submitted entries from major corporations.

Potential sale

Several reports have come forward claiming Digg has been trying to sell itself to a larger company since early 2006.[12] While Adelson claims that Digg will meet with any potential buyers, he denies that they will actively begin talks for a sale. The most recent sale talks were with Google in July 2008 for approximately $200 million. On July 25, during the due diligence part of the potential sale, Google informed Digg that they were not interested in the purchase.[13] As a result of Google's decision, Digg entered into a third round of funding, receiving $28.7 million from investors such as Highland Capital Partners[citation needed]. With this funding, the company plans to move from their current offices to accommodate a bigger staff base.[14] On December 2, 2008, BusinessWeek reported "Digg Chief Executive Officer Jay Adelson says the popular news aggregation Web site is no longer for sale, and the focus of the company is to build an independent business that reaches profitability as quickly as possible. That means the four-year-old startup will dial back some of its expansion plans, instead prioritizing projects that generate revenue and profit."[15] On December 18, 2008, BusinessWeek analyzed Digg's financial statements. They reported that Digg lost $4 million on $6.4 million of revenue in the first three quarters of 2008.[3]

Features

Digg Inc is based mostly from its Digg.com website. Many of Digg's new developments are improvements and features to its website.

Facebook Connect

In May 2009, Digg launched a new feature integrating Facebook Connect with Digg.[16] The Digg integration with Facebook connect allows users of Digg and Facebook to connect their accounts. When a Facebook account is connected to a Digg account, Digg articles can then be shared on the user's Facebook page.[17] Facebook Connect also allows Facebook users to log into Digg with their Facebook account, thus bypassing the normally required Digg registration.

Digg Dialogg

Digg Dialogg allows Digg users to submit questions to a preselected famous individual who agrees to do an interview with a reporter chosen by Digg.[18]

Digg Bar

On April 2, 2009, Digg released the Digg Bar, which provides a toolbar above the top of a site allowing the user to produce shortened urls, or access digg comments and analytics without leaving the page.[19] On April 5, 2010, Kevin Rose announced on the official Digg blog that the controversial DiggBar would be eliminated with the implementation of the 4th version of the website.[20] This was Rose's first major announcement since succeeding Jay Adelson as CEO.

Digg API

On April 19, 2007, Digg opened their API[21] (Application Programing Interface) to the public.[22] This allowed software developers to write tools and applications based on queries of Digg's public data, dating back to 2004. Since then, many blogs[23][24] have sought to keep up with all of the ongoing Digg API projects.

Criticism

Digg v4

On August 25, 2010, when Digg updated to version 4, the huge demand on its servers began exposing bugs and errors previously undiscovered during the alpha testing. Digg added more servers and the site was restored. However, the algorithm failed to promote new stories creating a void on the front page. The lack of content on the front page and the removal of upcoming and friends pages on the new site provoked a large majority of users to revolt against the changes.[25] They began posting comments complaining about the removal of features like bury, favorites, friends submissions, upcoming pages, subcategories and profile search. The protest increased when the algorithm kicked in but only began promoting content submitted by major outlets like Mashable. The revolting members demanded a return to user curation and compared the new front page to an RSS feed.[26][27]

At first, Digg began censoring protesting users and stories on the site. However, Digg's lack of response began to backfire as users felt betrayed, and many users jumped ship for Digg's competitors sites. Kevin Rose eventually replied on his blog where he promised to restore upcoming pages and fix the algorithm.[28] Alexis Ohanian, the founder of a rival site, said in an open letter to Kevin Rose that the changes reeked of VC meddling and criticized the attempt to copy features and design from Facebook and Twitter.[29]

Moderation and algorithms

The purpose of Digg was to give editorial powers back to the masses. However, the second version of Digg began using a secret algorithm that blurs the transparency that was expected by the users. In 2006, the site began to be gamed by their top users.[30] Supernova17 was banned after agreeing to promote story for cash to an undercover Digg sting operation.[31] Another group of users openly formed a niche 'bury brigade' with good intentions of stopping unwanted political and corporate influx to Digg.[32] The users defended themselves claiming these were in accordance with Digg users. Digg tried to offset these criticism by hiring computer scientist Anton Kast to develop a diversity algorithm to prevent special interest groups from dominating Digg. A townhall was organized and the users demanded the shouts feature be discontinued.[33] By 2008, Google increased their page rank for Digg and many 'pay for Diggs' startups were created to profit from the opportunity. According to a popular blog a single front page story was sold for $500 at that time.[34] Usocial and Diggfront were given cease and desist notices from Digg which they ignored. Digg appears to have failed in this pursuit.

Mob mentality

Unlike the present Digg algorithm, which works on user diversity, in 2006 it was much more dependant on flocking behavior among users to determine the promotion of content. During this period an anonymous user posted a blog accusing an O'Reilly writer of stealing Digg's CSS.[35] The Digg mob flocked to the story and it was promoted with nearly 3000 votes. Digg founders Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson and Daniel Burka expressed dissatisfaction on finding Digg's code on Mallett's sites.[36] Mallett responded and clarified that the theft of code was committed by the contributors to the open source Digg clone, Pligg, which he was using.[37] Kevin acknowledged the misunderstanding and notified Pligg developers of the issue[38] Adelson contacted Mallett thanking him for clearing the issue and expressed support for his claims. Another O'Reilly blogger in defense of Mallett posted a criticism of Digg's mob mentality.[39] Digg mob's failure to the Mallett story has also been attributed to 'groupthink' which is different from the wisdom of the crowds which requires independence among the nodes.[40]

AACS encryption key controversy

Wikinews has related news:
Main article: AACS encryption key controversy

On May 1, 2007, an article appeared on Digg's homepage that contained the encryption key for the AACS digital rights management protection of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Then Digg, "acting on the advice of its lawyers," removed posting submissions about the secret number from its database and banned several users for submitting it. The removals were seen by many Digg users as a capitulation to corporate interests and an assault on free speech.[41] A statement by Jay Adelson attributed the article's take-down to an attempt to comply with cease and desist letters from the Advanced Access Content System consortium and cited Digg’s Terms of Use as justification for taking down the article.[42] Although some users defended Digg's actions,[43][44][45] as a whole the community staged a widespread revolt with numerous articles and comments being made using the encryption key.[46][47] The scope of the user response was so great that one of the Digg users referred to it as a "digital Boston Tea Party".[48] The response was also directly responsible for Digg reversing the policy and stating: "But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be."[49]

Organized ideologically-motivated censorship

Main article: Digg Patriots

On August 5, 2010, progressive blogger Ole Ole Olson (aka "Novenator") posted a report to AlterNet about a year-long effort of organized burying of seemingly-liberal articles from the Upcoming module of Digg by a conservative Yahoo! Groups mailing list known as DiggPatriots and an associated page on coRank; he also accused leading members of the mailing list of participating in behavior which violated the Digg Terms of Usage, such as creating "sleeper" accounts in the event of administrators banning their main accounts for terms-violating behavior as well as vexatious "reporting" of seemingly-liberal users for banning.[50][51] The post was immediately followed by the disbanding and closure of the DiggPatriots list, and an announced (by Rose) corporate-side investigation into the matter.[52]

Timeline

October 2004 Development on digg.com begins[53]
December 1, 2004 Kevin Rose creates the first profile
December 3, 2004 The first story is submitted to Digg[54]
December 5, 2004 Digg is open to public
December 13, 2004 Kevin Rose shows off Digg on The Screen Savers[55]
January 2, 2005 Comment section introduced for stories
February 28, 2005 Digg 1.6: duplicate story detection
March 19, 2005 Profile page now includes comment histories and sort by category
May 9, 2005 Digg spy is released
May 27, 2005 Digg 2.0 is released. Friends feature, ajax buttons for Digg/bury, and a non-linear promotion algorithm are implemented.
July 2, 2005 Diggnation podcast begins with Alex and Kevin[56]
October 2005 Raises $2.8 million in venture capital
December 2005 Digg Spy 2.0 released
December 2005 KoolAidGuy saga results in anti-spam tools being introduced[57]
January 17, 2006 Top user Albertpacino resigns after accusations of him being on Digg payroll[58]
January 18, 2006 Digg Clouds is introduced, Search is improved
January 25, 2006 Acquisition rumors begins
February 2, 2006 Report stories as 'inaccurate' and Profanity filters are introduced
February 15, 2006 Digg widget for blogs and share by email is released
March 1, 2006 New Digg Comment System Released, threaded and Diggable comments.
April 20, 2006 Digg Army Saga: after an exposé by forevergeek.com Kevin bans dozens of top users.[59]
June 26, 2006 Digg v3 rolled out, site redesign, shouts, new categories: politics and sports.
July 24, 2006 Digg Labs Launches
August 15, 2006 Thumbnails added
August 27, 2006 Digg begins enforcing trademark rights
September 6, 2006 User rebellion against Friends System and vote rigging results in promises about the diversity algorithms and other tools that were never implemented. Top user p9 resigns.
September 8, 2006 diggriver.com is launched for mobile devices
September 12, 2006 #1 Story feature added later renamed as favorites
December 18, 2006 New features: Podcast, Videos, Top 10 sidebar, wide-screen support and friends page
February 2, 2007 Top Diggers list removed after user complaints[60]
February 2, 2007 Big Spy Launched
February 26, 2007 The new US Elections 2008 section creates lots of buzz
March 1, 2007 Blog post leads to concern about 'bury brigades'. Digg investigates and find no evidence for these allegations
April 19, 2007 Digg API is made public, Contest launched for best app using the API
May 1, 2007 HD-DVD saga regarding the censorship of the leaked encryption key, Kevin sides with the users and ends the censorship
June 4, 2007 Facebook app is launched
June 21, 2007 New Comment System - Joe Stump edition. Instant backlash from community after slow loading.
July 10, 2007 iphone App beta launched
July 25, 2007 Ad partnership with Microsoft
August 27, 2007 Customizable homepage options. Images and videos now back to homepage.
September 19, 2007 New Digg profiles, story suggestion, email alerts
November 20, 2007 Digg the Candidates: Presidential candidates get their Digg accounts
February 1, 2008 Digg Town Halls
May 15, 2008 New comments system is released
June 30, 2008 Recommendation engine is released
July 23, 2008 facebook minifeeds of digg stories
July 31, 2008 m.digg.com - Mobile site is released
August 6, 2008 Firefox Extension released
August 25, 2008 Digg Dialogg
September 8, 2008 Digg warns users against script for auto digging friends stories.
September 24, 2008 $28.7 million capital raised with Highland Capital Partners.
October 3, 2008 Many power users banned after they fail to follow guidelines against script digging.[61]
October 9, 2008 Digg Spy and podcasts discontinued
December 18, 2008 Related stories and "People who Dugg this also Dugg" boxes added to individual stories
April 2, 2009 DiggBar and short url launched
April 9, 2009 New Search
May 6, 2009 Facebook Connect
May 26, 2009 Shouts feature is removed
August 6, 2009 Diggable ads implemented
October 16, 2009 Partners with WeFollow for categorizing user in the upcoming version 4 release
November 4, 2009 Digg Trends launched
January 17, 2010 Chrome extension launched
March 23, 2010 iPhone app is launched
April 1, 2010 Android app is launched
April 5, 2010 Jay Adelson Steps Down as CEO
July 2, 2010 Digg version 4 alpha testing begins
August 3, 2010 Digg takes down new user registration in preparation for Digg 4.0[62]
August 25, 2010 Digg v4 is released: My News and Publisher Streams launched

See also

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