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How I Gamed Digg as a TIME Magazine Intern
To get my first job, I infiltrated the small group of power users who controlled the front page of the Internet. It required no technical expertise; just a ton of time. Tricks like this are still happening and influencing what you see from around the web.
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Wow this actually nicely explained why digg went with version 4. They gambled and lost.
Trying to be more like facebook is what contributed to their downfall too.
So who else here visited digg back in the day... Don't lie.
I did every so often, but never made an account
Hopefully Snapzu doesn't pull a Digg.
Excellent article! Just goes to show how things don't stay the same for long.
But I have recently arrived here at snapzu from Reddit. The one thing I really didn't like about Reddit was it was visually unappealing. But I did like the way it encouraged conversations. I preferred the visual nature of Stumbleupon though. I'm so glad I've found Snapzu, because it has the visual appeal of SU with the community of Reddit.
Welcome to snapzu!
You can see by the vote count that there's a lot of ex-diggers here, or at least there's interest in the matter.