Nick Carr is predicting Google will open it’s infrastructure to the world: The article also includes an interesting, if ambiguous, passage in which Eric Schmidt implies that Google will rent out its supercomputer to outside developers and businesses the way that Amazon.com does through Amazon Web Services: … “Schmidt won’t say how much of its [...]
Categories: clustering,digg,linux,open source
Michael Eakes (who used to work at Rojo with me) wrote an open letter to Al Gore asking him to distribute An Inconvenient Truth for free: Your lifelong environmental work is to be applauded. Everyone should see the vital message you convey so effectively in “An Inconvenient Truth.” Unfortunately, theaters are unable to deliver your [...]
This guy writes a blog post about how his MacBook Pro’s power cable started to melt which ended up making it on Digg. Some ‘insightful’ commentary follows which the owner doesn’t like so he decides to block Digg with: 403 Go Away! The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it because you’re [...]
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Right now this is the #5 story on Digg: My coworker just got a nasty letter from his ISP (optonline) accusing him of copyright infringement. It turns out that his kid got caught downloading some warez from one of the trackers indexed by Torrentspy. … The poor kid is not allowed to use BitTottent anymore. [...]
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Venturebeat has more on Digg’s recent $8.5M Series B: We’ve just talked with Greylock investor David Sze, who says Greylock and Omidyar weren’t interested in having an outside investor dilute their holdings, and that Digg’s management didn’t want to waste time in trying to raise money at a higher value from other parties. Valuation is [...]
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Could News Corp have offered $100M to by Digg?Last month would have landed Kevin a jackpot as reports came in that News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch was offering over $100 million for Digg. In Leo Laporte’s TWiT podcast netcast ( This Week in Tech Episode 77: Kiss My Ring, 1:16:25), he mentioned that Kevin (and maybe even CEO Jay Adelson) wanted to take it.BUT and that’s a big but, the investors weren’t willing to settle with anything less than $150 million.
That means that del.icio.us had 300k users in its first two years and Digg has 500k in its first two years…. acquisition has also been big, though – with del.icio.us gaining more than 600k in the last 9 months.In other words, for all its high profile expansion, the impact of being acquired by Yahoo!
I’ve been noticing a trend between the memediggers such as Digg and Reddit and memetrackers such as Tailrank and Memeorandum.The memediggers occasionally (and often) cause an outbreak in a meme which arose a few months back but that might be popular in a community which hasn’t yet seen it (or developed an intellectual antibody).I just was on Reddit and noticed that they were promoting two stories on their home page.
Categories: digg,memeorandum,reddit,startups,tailrank,web2.0
Check out this video of Kevin Rose talking about Digg on the Screen Savers.It was cool until I got to the end of the video and noticed that he didn’t disclose the fact that he started the company…. Now playing devils advocate he could have been worried about losing his job.