Digg.com is one of the pioneers of Web 2.0 revolution on internet. Here users share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down are respectively known as digging and burying. Thousands of stories are submitted every day, but only the most dugg stories appear on the front page of the website. Sometime submissions on digg create a sudden increase in web traffic to the “dugg” website. This is called “Digg effect” or “dugg to death”. In case of this effect, there is server crash of small websites due to enormous traffic. It happened with one of my websites also. Today there are hundreds of websites which are based on this concept. But Digg was completely original idea when it was started in Nov. 2004. Even Yahoo has launched its clone which is known as Yahoo’s Buzz. Digg.com was started by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson.
In 2004, Kevin Rose met Steve Wozniak (He is one of the co-founders of Apple Computers) . One day while having lunch with Wozniak, they were talking about the old days of Apple during late 70’s. In that meeting Kevin Rose was inspired to do something new and innovative. He decided to implement his idea of a user controlled community-based news website. He withdrew $1000 out of his account and paid a freelance web developer $12 an hour to mock up a Web page and purchased some server space for $99 a month. He paid $1200 for the domain name digg.com, and the one of the greatest project in the history of internet began. By this time he was joined by Owen, Ron and Jay. The site got huge response and in October 2005, Digg.com received $2.8 million in venture capital from major investors, including Omidyar Network, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, and Greylock partners. Really, I must say an idea can change your life.
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