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By Owen Byrne

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Entries Tagged as 'digg History'

Traffic Spike

March 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I had a minor traffic spike yesterday, unusual since I haven’t posted much lately. I assume it’s because some people out there wanted to see if I had an opinion on the latest digg rumor and the latest Jay Adelson denial of that rumor. On the denial, shouldn’t MS or Google people be denying it? […]

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Tags: digg History · web 2.0

Tantek Çelik praises digg’s use of the CC public domain license

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Here. I can honestly say “I did that.” Picked the license, got approval from our lawyers, changed the copyright notice. I remember feeling a bit subversive at the time. I told people over and over - public domain - public domain - just so I wouldn’t get the blame later if there was blame […]

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Tags: Intellectual Property · digg · digg History

Journalism?

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been creating a database of digg press - and thought I would share some tidbits. This article in the Guardian just brought me to a complete stop. Not because of the usual overblown hype, but because of the grade-school like prose. From the baffling headline “Digg, Kevin Rose” the article just goes downhill, […]

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Tags: digg · digg History

Images of the digg office

January 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A site called officesnapshots.com uses some of my photos of the digg office under construction. Make sure to read the little blurb at the bottom!

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Tags: Photos · digg · digg History

Interview with Jay

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

An interview with Jay in the Telegraph. Notable things:

Digg was founded in 2003. Wow. Digg needs that PR person now.
Story got no traction on techmeme. Here, gone. The blogosphere’s interest in digg is at an all time low.

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Update on my digg History plan

January 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Just so my 3 non-lawyer readers out there know - my plan on talking about digg has changed slightly. I’ve picked up some invisible editors, so I decided that it would be better to write the whole thing at once and then let them see it, rather than have me (and the idea) die a […]

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A Site I Built

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

An old link I came across while going through old emails. “Seems to have found an interesting niche.”

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An experiment

December 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment

One of the greatest regrets I’m left with from my digg experience was that I could not blog about it.
Anyway since I’ve left digg, greatly enhancing my ability to talk about the experience, I’ve decided to try an experiment. 3 years ago today, digg was just barely launched. What I thought I’d do is […]

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Tags: digg History