First of all, if you don’t know what is Digg and have never heard of the term before then I must say that you haven’t tasted the real flavour of the Internet yet. Digg is one of the first website that started the concept of sharing great stories all around the world by the community. Digg is actually responsible for other social networking sites that have URL submissions and then voting by the community. Reddit is one of them.
Here are 11 interesting Trivia facts about Digg -
- Digg was started in late 2004 headed by Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson.
- DiggNation was the first name that was suggested for the site. They even tried for the domain dig.com but it was already occupied and they finally had to bought digg.com domain for a hefty amount then. Diggnation is still used as a podcast website by Kevin Rose.
- Google tried to acquire Digg in 2008 for about 200 million dollars which later on it neglected.
- Digg received Traffic averaging around 35 million per month in 2008 as reported by Kevin Rose.
- More than 20K stories are submitted to Digg each day with very few of them able to make it to popular front page stories.
- Nobody knows about the actual Algorithm that Digg is following to promote stories upwards but it mostly depends on the digging and burying diversity of Digg users.
- In May 2007 Digg banned several of its users who submitted the article containing the AACS encryption key of HD DVD and Blue Ray and deleted the article permanently. Digg users started "digital revolt" with lots of comments and blog writings and the whole community was disturbed.
- Many people still believes that Digg is Manipulated and moderated by few power users and it is a fact that around 100 Digg submitters have contribution to about 50% of the front page stories.
- Recently, BusinessWeek reported that Digg has lost around 4 million dollars in first 3 quarters in 2008.
- During US Presidential Elections, Digg launched a new concept to track election news and interact with Barack Obama and John McCain. They also started "Digg the Candidate" to get the actual feeling of elections on the internet.
- Digg has around 70 employees with their head office at San Francisco. With so good work culture and work, it is a dream for some college graduates to get hired by Digg.
Whatever you may say, Digg is one of the best successful venture that is still a sole traffic collector for many of the websites.
Do also check some interesting Trivia Facts about Facebook.
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