The Power of Digg.com

05Oct05

Wow.  It’s been nearly a year since I became a beta tester for the awesomely cool digg.com and have since seen so many instances of the power of digg.  We’ve seen servers overload, bandwidth bills sky high, and the greatest… instantaneous fame.  Now the media is finally realizing the massive power of the internet’s newest trend, digg.  A few days ago a post was made about a NPR syndicate that was doing a segment on digg.com.  Immediately I went and signed up to be apart of the broadcast.  I received the formal invitation today as well as a ridiculous amount of my digg brethren.  The producer’s latest digg was that the response was so overwhelming that they want to start an entire series on digg… well at least more than one segment.  Now digg is one of the most popular tech news/social bookmarking sites on the web and the media is finally recognizing this awesome power.  This is just so freakin’ awesome.  I mean how cool is this?  Next well see them featured on CNN/FoxNews and then later the History Channel.  Wow… speculations, speculations.

Excerpts of gmails from one of the hosts: 

I want to personally thank you for contacting us. We’d love to have you on
the show. Someone posted the fact that we are doing a show on Digg.com and
diggers and I guess we hit the front page. You wouldn’t believe how many
people are contacting us. This is truly amazing. I am actually going to sign
up myself and post a story tonight myself thanking everyone and letting more
people know about the show. Look for it.

I will be asked the following questions:

I am going to be asking about how you found Digg.com? What news
stories you saw that surprised you? Where do you think Digg.com is going?

And then later today:

My producer is signed up on Digg.com today and posted a story thanking everyone and letting more people know about the show. Look for it. It is titled “Diggers Flood Radio Show After Show On Digg.com Is Announced” and was posted at 5:30 pm. If you can go see the post and “Digg it” that would be very helpful. It looks like we convinced the radio station to do a show each week devoted to Diggers and if we can show the same response as last night we should get approved for the additional show day.

Update:: New devolopments…  check my main site for more info.

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iKarma.com

04Oct05

I found this website the other day and was quite intrigued so, I joined. The website is iKarma.com and the idea was to create an online feedback and reputation system that allows you to review and rate friends, collegues or random strangers. And they did it. With quite efficiency and great design actually. It’s really fun and I encourage all of you to check it out…

Here’s my karma.

Comment with you karma if you get one…

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Wow…

04Oct05

So when I first heard about wordpress.com I quickly went over and registered to get a blog and beta test the new software. Well, to tell you the truth I never actually thought I would get an invitation and then today I open up firefox and there on my startpage under my gmail inbox there is an email from wordpress.com and the invitation which allowed me to start this blog.

And it was like this:

And it’s really cool. I love the WYSIWYG editor and pictor suppot. And all the little AJAX stuff they put in here is really cool. You should check it out. More to come…

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away you entered your email address on http://wordpress.com/ to get a blog.
We’re now inviting small groups to use WordPress.com and your email address was selected today!
Visit this address to get started:
http://wordpress.com/some invite codes that don’t work anymore
While you’re on a string of good luck it might be a good day to buy a lottery ticket. Better move fast though, because this invite will expire in a week.
Cheers,
The WordPress.com Team

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Hello world!

03Oct05

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

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