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The Top Digg Digged for 2005 - Archive

What Were The Crème de la Crème for 2005

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History

 

Digg was created in November 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson (who serves as CEO), all of whom play an active role in the management of the site. Although the domain name of Digg is registered under the name Jerimiah Udy, he is not one of the original founders of Digg, but rather a friend of Kevin Rose. The domain name was registered under Jerimiah Udy's name because Kevin Rose did not want others to know that he was associated with Digg. He wanted Digg to stand on its own and not become a message board for all things he, Kevin Rose, stood for.

Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered by the Walt Disney Company.

“Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast.

The original design was free of advertisements, and was designed by Dan Rice. But as digg became more popular, Google AdSense was added to generate revenue. The site was updated in July of 2005, to "version 2.0". The new Digg featured a friends list, the ability to "digg" a story without being redirected to a "success" page, and a new interface designed by Daniel Burka, of the web design company silverorange. After the redesign, some users complained about the lack of the simplistic, minimalist layout used in the original version of Digg. The site developers have stated that in future versions a more minimalist design will likely be employed.

Digg has grown large enough that submissions sometimes create a sudden swarm of traffic to the "dugg" website (similar to the Slashdot effect). This is commonly referred to by Digg users as The Digg Effect or SlashDugg.

In October 2005 Digg received $2.8 million from venture capital groups and investors to support its continued growth.

In December 2005, "Digg Spy" was updated and enhanced to Digg Spy v2 with new features including a live and dynamic behind-the-scenes peak into story submissions, diggings, comment submissions and the like. The right-hand navigation bar also received a new look.

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