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- Launched: December 2004
- Founder: Kevin Rose
- CEO: Jay Adelson
- Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
- So-called "Digg effect" when sites linked from Digg experience a sudden surge in traffic
- "Group Digging": When a coordinated group agrees to digg one another's stories to draw traffic to certain sitesDeep Jive Interests: A Brief History of Digg Controversy
- According to Compete.com, Digg attracted 236 million visitors in 2008Compete.com: SnapShot of Digg.com
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Digg is an online community where users post and rank different types of media, predominantly news articles. Users post and rank articles/blogs, which are ordered by popularity on the Digg website. Digg was created by former Tech TV personalty Kevin Rose and launched in December 2004.
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Starting Up Digg
Kevin Rose came up with the idea for Digg in the Fall of 2003. Rose hired a programmer from Elance at $10 per hour to bring his creation to life. By February of 2006, Digg had become a huge force in the area of social news as millions of users turned to it for their daily news. Along with the site's success, several companies have attempted to launch services to rig or artificially inflate the popularity of stories on Digg. To combat abuse, Digg has implemented several fraud detection layers into its algorithm. -
Diggnation
The weekly podcast series "Diggnation," hosted by Rose and Alex Albrecht from a couch, follows popular stories from the Digg site. The show airs on the Revision3 online network, and debuted in July of 2005. Live episodes of the show have been recorded in Los Angeles, London, San Francisco and New York City and often feature special guests. The name "Diggnation" was originally suggested as a name for the website.Interest from Google
On July 22, 2008, TechCrunch reported that Google is close to a deal to acquire Digg for a price "around $200 million." The negotiations were first reported in March 2008, however final negotiations were unsuccessful. Microsoft was previously interested in acquiring the company. TechCrunch: Google in Final Negotiations to Acquire Digg for "Around $200 Million" (July 22, 2008)-
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Digg Questions
What does it mean for the links we have submitted to Digg now that they have added "NoFollow" on all external links? 4 AnswersIt depends on what you use digg for. If you are posting articles to generate traffic to your sites, that will not be affected, if you use digg to generate backl... read more
Digg have finally done it, unless your popular - you get a no follow link. Is this a good or bad change? 1 AnswerGood idea. The system was open to abuse. And some of the stories submitted were...odd It is understandable that any webmaster will try and get as many do follow... read more
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