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For many of us, Schachter lived the great American Web 2.0 dream:
Step 1. Build an app (del.icio.us) in your spare time, and operate it from your apartment;
Step 2. Sell it to Yahoo! (rumored to be in the neighborhood of $20M . . . nice neighborhood);
Step 3. Retire (he now devotes his time to playing XBox).
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Kalen Jordan, a relatively recent connection on the intertubes, approached me last week about doing an interview. I think he thought I was going to say no or that he was going to have to really kiss my butt to get the interview. :-)
At any rate, we sat down to do a relatively short interview. [...]
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If you’ve got praise for Microsoft. If you endorse Republican policies. If you believe in helping people optimize their website using SEO. If you have anything positive to say about Netscape, Reddit or Yahoo! Suggestions - it’s time to stop relying on Digg for traffic.
Digg has come under increasing fire as they continue to tread [...]
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The Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference this week and Kevin’s presentation “The Future of Crowd Generated Media” got me thinking about how long Digg might last or stay relevant.
Granted, Jason Calcanis wrote a month ago about how Digg would “die a death of 1000 cuts”. He is right that they own the “Young [...]
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As demonstrated by the chaos that ensued on “the HP thread”, the Digg mob is essentially a classless, shameless group. I guess they have every right to be. But the reality is that people take on personalities and alter-egos far different than they most likely have in real life. This week is Digg week here [...]
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I had hopes that my story on the Democracy XSS exploit would make the front page of Digg. I felt it was highly important that people were aware of the problem and the best way to get eyes on the issue was via Digg. I’ve never gone through a massive Digg and expected the story [...]
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I’ve said alot about MySpace recently and with good reason. It claims to have the largest membership of any other site on the internet with the exception of, I believe, Engadget. Hell, I couldn’t even go see a movie the other night without seeing a girl run up to another girl who was apparently [...]
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