Comments on: Kevin Rose reflects on Digg, the dangers of outside investors, and his legacy http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/kevin-rose-reflects-on-digg-the-dangers-of-outside-investors-and-his-legacy/ Sat, 25 May 2013 23:54:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eric http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/kevin-rose-reflects-on-digg-the-dangers-of-outside-investors-and-his-legacy/#comment-869724 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:31:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=546710#comment-869724 You don’t hate on Google for putting ads on all their searches. It’s all about the implementation. Digg’s first mistake was making too many product changes too quickly and as a result disenfranchising power users. Digg’s second mistake was not taking the spam problem seriously. Digg’s third problem was being too late to the game with Newsrooms, and not giving users any power at all to create / moderate new communities on the site. The ads played a very small part in their downfall.

]]> By: randy http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/kevin-rose-reflects-on-digg-the-dangers-of-outside-investors-and-his-legacy/#comment-869470 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:26:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=546710#comment-869470 Digg didn’t fail because of Facebook and Twitter.

Digg failed because of Digg.

Digg never offered any sort of meaningful API, which quashed its utility to third-party developers, who make or break this types of sites. Digg also ran into serious trouble during the 2008 election for sketchiness involving its voting algos.

]]> By: Joe Park http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/kevin-rose-reflects-on-digg-the-dangers-of-outside-investors-and-his-legacy/#comment-869305 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:07:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=546710#comment-869305 I dont blame digg for what happened, they were trying to make digg better to adapt to the internet’s growing pace. Understandable. They should have done more testing before officially changing digg. It its not completely their fault. Facebook, took a chuck out of everybody’s users. A buddy of mine was maintaining a free forum board, now taken down by facebook.

]]> By: xyzzy http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/kevin-rose-reflects-on-digg-the-dangers-of-outside-investors-and-his-legacy/#comment-869259 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:12:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=546710#comment-869259 Who the hell listens to this guy? “I cratered my company and so can you”.

]]> By: Tony Drummond http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/kevin-rose-reflects-on-digg-the-dangers-of-outside-investors-and-his-legacy/#comment-869253 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:58:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=546710#comment-869253 I like to think that the reason why Digg failed was because of the gaming that went on, not the advertising. People constantly gamed the system, voted up posts that sucked because a friend submitted it, etc. With all of this going on, the site became a joke because all of the top articles were pretty much garbage. Reddit definitely helped further Digg’s downfall as it is a very simple yet well-built site. After all, why go on Digg and see a bunch of fake upvoted articles when you can go on Reddit and get a more realistic view of what is popular online.

]]> By: tomblue http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/kevin-rose-reflects-on-digg-the-dangers-of-outside-investors-and-his-legacy/#comment-869250 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:56:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=546710#comment-869250 Is this English? I would love to follow your comments on here. I Love to see people get all agitated for no reason. “oh Kevin rose is a bad manager. I hate him” – so funny

]]> By: pippofin http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/kevin-rose-reflects-on-digg-the-dangers-of-outside-investors-and-his-legacy/#comment-869188 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:57:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=546710#comment-869188 are you real? kevin rose it multi millionarie with stock in facebook, twitter, zynga… Enjoy his investments http://www.crunchbase.com/person/kevin-rose

]]> By: Ben Rowell http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/kevin-rose-reflects-on-digg-the-dangers-of-outside-investors-and-his-legacy/#comment-869170 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:03:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=546710#comment-869170 L answered before I got to your reply. I like their answer. :)

]]> By: danielwalldammit http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/kevin-rose-reflects-on-digg-the-dangers-of-outside-investors-and-his-legacy/#comment-869128 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:53:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=546710#comment-869128 That is frustrating. I am seriously thinking about shutting FB down, partly because I get tired of finding that what I do on other sites has just been broadcast on my FB site. My friends don’t need to know my every move, not at all. And Digg ties itself to this. Bad move.

]]> By: danielwalldammit http://gigaom.com/2012/07/25/kevin-rose-reflects-on-digg-the-dangers-of-outside-investors-and-his-legacy/#comment-869127 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:51:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=546710#comment-869127 I’ve tried Digg a few times, and I honestly can’t find any use for it.

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