Comments on: Digg Is Dying, Maybe Dead

By: Bill Crosby

Bill Crosby — Wed, 25 May 2011 18:32:11 +0000

I am not seeing this at all. Mind you, reddit and SU have probably taken considerable market share in the book marking world, but I think Digg is still in there as a player.

By: dave arnold

dave arnold — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:05:36 +0000

I’d need to check with you here. Which is not one thing I usually do! I get pleasure from reading a put up that may make folks think. Also, thanks for permitting me to remark!

By: Domenico Tassone

Domenico Tassone — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:35:03 +0000

Both WebGuild and Website Magazine are hyping this weak story. Anyone that relies exclusively on Compete is asking for trouble: panel-based services are notoriously subject to sample bias.

So I checked Quantcast which tells a different story: Digg had a big run-up in February in March. This means that the downtrend in April is possibly a return to normal January levels. Why did it rise so much earlier in the year anyway?

Perhaps you might check Nielsen and Comscore and maybe even call Digg for comment before pronouncing some bigger trend which fits a story you clearly already want to tell.

By: Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:53:57 +0000

If it's dead, why is there a digg button at the bottom of this post?

By: Phillip Jain

Phillip Jain — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:55:14 +0000

One of the newspapers add this I clicked more … and found 300+ social tagging sites. With twitter & facebook sucking the O2 out of Web2, guess what happens?

Pity Google Buzz, Yahoo Buzz and whatever is MSN/Windows Live Buzz is called – they have no chance of getting started … except for their 100s of millions of users.

I think the only way to combat this is for the tagging sites to provide some added value or to cooperate somehow, so tagging one place publishes it lots of other places .. otherwise people will Fb Like/tweet all these sites to death!

By: Fionnd

Fionnd — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:13:30 +0000

You always know something is not right when you see SEO's at search confererences talking about how easy it was to game a site for thousands of links. I never really trusted Digg for the very reason that it was so easy to manipulate for the wrong reasons.

By: bozo

bozo — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:14:05 +0000

Digg, Shmigg. In the early days of the web and Netscape, somebody aptly said it was going to be like the Big Bang, but after all the money, players, and survivors are counted, it would collapse back down from the googles into a reasonable number of sites like Netscape, the Post Office, UPS, and the phone company again. It could happen.