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Delicious is owned by Yahoo, not Google. But c.f. JotSpot nonetheless...
JotSpot got Google Joe Kraus. They're still pretty happy about that one, I think...
That seems like a ridiculously high number to me.
So what is it worth? Once you get into numbers that high, how do you even make a reasonable decision?
I am wondering, how will Google handle the fanboys. Maybe bad comments in Digg will get fanboys blog downgraded in Google search. Google is capable of doing that.
Besides, the comments on Digg are about on par with Youtube comments (read: unintelligible). I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that perhaps Google has more important things to worry about.
What about the Digg API? Will Google kill it? I ask because Google and APIs are not on best of terms.
What about the Digg API? Will Google kill it? I ask because Google and APIs are not on best of terms.
What do you mean by that? I'm not a big user of Google APIs so I can't attest to the quality, but it seems like they provide them for quite a few things. Maybe they would do a mediocre job of maintaining and improving the Digg API, but it wouldn't seem to make sense for them to get rid of it completely.
I feel they have an ethos of being overly controlling. Yahoo! is much more open and helpful. Digg is great too.
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I don't see how Digg and Google "fit" in any way other than their San Francisco, compulsively liberal leanings. Digg's user-base is heavily dominated by anti-authority adolescent miscreants and apparent adults suffering from perpetual adolescence (Mr. Rose). And Google? A company almost exclusively limited to people who fit the academic mold--having advanced degrees from advanced schools, with all the earmarks indica…
Are you confusing digg users with google (and digg) staff? You do realise they are different sets of people?
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Really? It's not clear to me that they are an obvious pair. Google really excels at building technical solutions to challenging problems, while Digg has done a great job building a community-based solution to a challenging problem. It seems to me every time Google attempts community, they more or less fail (Dodgeball, Jaiku, the new Lively hasn't done much, etc).
I think what makes them an obvious pair is their differences. Google is seeking community, relevant news, and more user interaction. On the other hand, Digg has seen it's pitfalls in the technical sense (most undoubtedly with the previous commenting system), and in some senses widespread acceptance. That is why, in my mind, they're an obvious pair to improve one another.
Google is extremely fit technically, yes. It can almost certainly help Digg out in that regard. But will it? They've been extremely lax in working with some of their services. (Jaiku, for instance.)
Meanwhile, Google continues its search for community. But is Digg really the sort of community Google wants? Its community is roundly dissed around the 'net for being immature, juvenile, shortsighted, and fanatic. I mean, compare it to reddit. The fanatics on reddit have NOTHING on the average Digg user.
Google doesn't get that community involves finding a way to get people to connect with other people. Orkut was a round failure because of that - it didn't innovate, like Facebook did, it just maintained status quo. By acquiring Digg, they've acquired a community on paper, but in reality they've really just risked their reputation for being mature and classy.
It will be very interesting to see how the Digg community takes this (if true). I think it will be a smooth transition, people don't view Google as evil (yet).