The so-called blog, Digg the Blog, lets me know that the social bookmarking service Digg turned two on December 7th. That’s quite an age in the Web 2.0 world, especially since the Digg guys actually counts from the day when “beta” left the logo. Gmail is still in beta, so it’s zero years old.
Hard to believe, but two years ago today, Kevin decided my code was bug- free enough to take down the beta sign and unleash Digg upon the world. It’s been a crazy and exciting time since then, and we owe it all to you – the loyal and passionate members of the Digg community.
However, when speaking of Digg in the very much digging blogosphere, you’re speaking of gaming. My good buddy Tony has a nice post on it up on Deep Jive Interests, talking about how diggers never will be paid by Digg, but still making money gaming it on behalf of other companies.
And another thing, Digg is two years old, but will it make it to three? I’m certain it will, but Kevin Rose & Co. won’t be the owners anymore. Who will buy it? My guess is Google.
Originally posted on December 8, 2006 @ 6:57 am
Good guess. But, you need to repeat this “guess” .. one for each potential buying company out there (Yahoo, etc) .. plus two more .. an ‘anonymous buyer’ and ‘they’ll never sell!’ guess. This way, next year we all look back, we can say with certainty .. that you guessed this correctly!
I’ll take my chances! :D
I don’t know if it will be by Google, but I do think it is very likely that Digg will be bought within the next year.