Comments on: Why no one should buy Digg

By: Zach Katkin

Zach Katkin — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:21:02 +0000

I agree, and right now I don’t see how a large corporation could effectively monetize Digg and make it profitable, beyond the sale of advertising.

By: spankbot

spankbot — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:53:02 +0000

Forget about FOX news… CNN is doing enough to bring Barack Hussein Obama

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07005/751395-192.stm

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Why no one should buy Digg, from a Digger « Digged Stories — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:09:34 +0000

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By: Newspoo

Newspoo — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:11:39 +0000

Well hell, there are others like Digg that would sell, no doubt/
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By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:21:38 +0000

Digg is great. No doubt. But I honestly don’t think it was built with an “exit plan”

Yahoo! has been very good to recent acquisitions. I use them a lot. For example, del.icio.us & Flickr have remained thriving communities with lots to share.

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By: Sc0rian

Sc0rian — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:43:09 +0000

Mate,

you have a very good point and i do agree with you.. nice article..

By: The Mysterious Trail of Digg User Sicc: An Example of How Digg is Used for Shady Spamming and SEO at Baron VC

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:59:18 +0000

[...] Now let me give you an example of what’s going on. Check out Who dugg or blogged: Why no one should buy Digg, from a Digger it is a Digg submission for an article by Paul Scrivens of 9 rules fame. You’ll find that Sicc has blogged about it too if you go to the bottom. [...]

By: Ilya Lichtenstein

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:58:49 +0000

And the quality of the Myspace userbase is higher? It’s all about how many eyeballs a site provides. The big media companies don’t give a shit about what kinds of stories hit the Digg front page, as long as those stories mean users will keep coming back to Digg(and they do).

By: Anand

Anand — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:31:09 +0000

But think of it from an another angle..Digg makes cheap money by paying certain diggers and also gets paid for getting certain topics to the top..These are little known facts, but with good proof..

Probably these things will stop with an acquisition…

By: nobody

nobody — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:28:01 +0000

Welll, Digg just took something like $8.5M right? In general terms (I don’t know the specifics so I’m just going for the general view) that’s not actually a good thing because

1) It means you need more money. Ideally the sooner you start running without more funding, the better.

2) Digg owners now own a smaller piece of the cake, although I bet it’s still over 50%.