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Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by lukifer »

SquareWheel wrote: post #61
alaskamiller wrote: post #41

Reddit won the game, slow and steady. Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse. BuzzFeed? HuffPo? Gawker? TheDaily? Reddit, yesterday. First thing first is rescue the culture. Digg engineering already fled, the peanut gallery in the valley keeps squawking with delight about your failure, and all you have left is some nicely designed pages showing double digit gains on stale lin…

Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse. I didn't know Reddit had their own power plant.

Google "definition literally". It's depressing, but that's the way the cookie bounces: language mutates, for better and for worse.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by wildmXranat »

ot86 wrote: post #77
alaskamiller wrote: post #41

Reddit won the game, slow and steady. Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse. BuzzFeed? HuffPo? Gawker? TheDaily? Reddit, yesterday. First thing first is rescue the culture. Digg engineering already fled, the peanut gallery in the valley keeps squawking with delight about your failure, and all you have left is some nicely designed pages showing double digit gains on stale lin…

There's a great post by a redditor that explains how Reddit has become "anti-content": http://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/vqy9y/dear_circ...

Very good analysis there. I wonder whether # of eyeballs is more important that accurate ranking algorithms. Viewers are washed, rinsed and asked to repeat.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#93

Post by SquareWheel »

lukifer wrote: post #91
SquareWheel wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse. I didn't know Reddit had their own power plant.

Google "definition literally". It's depressing, but that's the way the cookie bounces: language mutates, for better and for worse.

    "Used to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling."
Well that just makes me sad. We don't really have another word to use in its stead, do we?

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#94

Post by underdown »

spinchange wrote: post #19

I used to love digg in the early days. People point to the v4 revision as being the final nail, but they started wavering and losing the magic literal years before that. FWIW, Pligg (the digg clone CMS) looks like it's getting a twitter bootstrap upgrade. I've been wanting to roll my own "digg/reddit/HN" for ages. Maybe now's the time. http://www.pligg.com/demo/

hey Chris - how ya been?

for me the problem with digg started when they took down th leader board. It was what a few months later that "gamification" was the buzz word. Digg just effed that one up.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#95

Post by [deleted] »

lukifer wrote: post #91
SquareWheel wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse. I didn't know Reddit had their own power plant.

Google "definition literally". It's depressing, but that's the way the cookie bounces: language mutates, for better and for worse.

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Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#96

Post by thaumaturgy »

citricsquid wrote: post #69
blhack wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it doesn't. Go to the front page of reddit right now and try to find me a piece of news. I see 2 items out of 25 links. One of them is a [linkbait title] story about wikileaks winning a case against VISA (in iceland). The other is about a Canadian supreme court ruling.

The replies you'll get are "you make your own reddit, just remove the popular subreddits!" but you're right. reddit is usable for hardcore users that want to invest real time into their experience, it's atrocious for casual users (that don't care for the meme spam). There is a large hole that (new) Digg could fill.

I agree, but I think that Reddit is only usable for a specific subset of hardcore users.

Unfortunately, Reddit's admins chose to take a hands-off approach to policing bad behavior in the community. As a result, Reddit regulars have to guard themselves against providing enough information in their comments to attract the attention of a diligent troll.

I had a 5-year-old account on Reddit, and had been active on there from just about the beginning. I had hand-picked subreddits and the like. But, ultimately, it was better just to delete my account entirely and become a casual reader.

Now Reddit is basically the daily equivalent of reading the comics section in the newspaper.

I think Digg has a huge opportunity here. I doubt that they will take advantage of it though.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#97

Post by paulbjensen »

This should be a film, the story has everything: business press coverage, the BluRay code event, death threats to the founder, a near-deal with Google, the exit of the CEO, the 4.0 debacle, the company downsizes, the founder leaves, the company struggles, then the company sells it's shell.

I hope BusinessWeek does a piece on this.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#98

Post by awj »

corford wrote: post #87
hello_asdf wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I liked Reddit back when it was less well known. Now, it just appears that the content appeals to the lowest common denominator. Some of the content is still great (i.e. r/dwarffortress), but a lot of the site has degraded into junk. If anyone has some good subreddits that are still decent, I'd love to know what they are.

I don't use reddit so have a fairly basic understanding of how it works but looking at all these replies about subreddits, it struck me that basically reddit is a web2.0 version of usenet. So I guess that means good content is there, you just need to know where to look :) P.S. for the redditors: I have nothing against reddit, it's just that I'm already drowning in information and never found the time to get in to it.

That's actually a pretty decent analogy. Obviously the focus on posting links and ranking and such is different, but the user experience of someone totally new is similar. As is the searching for tiny pockets of awesome in a sea of idiocy.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#99

Post by eli »

SquareWheel wrote: post #81
lazugod wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a joke, or are you unfamiliar with the many definitions of power?

It was a joke (a bad one, clearly), but it was at the definition of the word literally. The OP presumably meant figuratively.

The OP is fine. You're being overly pedantic. People have been using the word this way for (literally) hundreds of years.

Moreover, the truly literal definition of the word is from the Latin for "letter" and means something like "letter-for-letter truth." So using this word to describe anything other than a written document is "wrong" on some level. But language doesn't really work that way.

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