They have been working v4 for a long time and yet the site is unusable. I guess the rush came from investors to push it out which was not a smart idea.
Reddit is having financial issues because Conde Naste does not give them any money. I assume they are taking money from what little they make from ads.
The concept of Digg before was fine all they needed to do was remove the power from the power users so everyone gets a shot at hitting the front page.
Now user submits are really hard to hit the front page since their idea of a change algorithm is allowing auto submissions to hit front page with less than 30 diggs while user submits need over 100.
When ever Facebook changed something what the site was about did not change. Facebook did not go from an open social network to a Linkedin type site where you can only post resumes.
Digg went from all about being user submitted content to an RSS reader where a lot of posts are auto submitted by blogs and ends up on the front page.
Google Wave could have been great if it was not designed by engineers.It amazes me that such a giant company does not put more effort into design and usability.
Sadly I don't think this will take off. So many people rallied over Diaspora calling it the Facebook killer not understanding the true implications. Maybe I am wrong about this but wouldn't the people that want to use this have to download it and host it themselves?
Agreed 100% and came here to say just this. Perfect recent example would be Tweetmeme. Plus you do not know how long these platforms are going to last there just here until someone comes up with something better. When they fold you fold unless you can adapt like those companies that made applications for Myspace and then moved on to Facebook.
Tweetmeme isn't a great example. They didn't get steamrolled—they now power the official Tweet Button, and they'll power (they are?) DataSift, which is going to give people crazy querying capability against real-time twitter data.
hmmm... I read either on mashable or techcrunch that tweetmeme was changing focus to analytics since twitter decided to do the retweet. Never saw anything about them working with Twitter.
I do see mentioning of an agreement with Twitter but it is my understanding that Twitter has a licensing agreement to use the tweetmeme technology not that tweetmeme will be powering everything.
I am 23 years old and still in school. I do not remember what the stats are but I do remember a lot of students graduate in 5 years are more.
When you spend the majority of your life in school the last thing you want to do is settle down right away. I am sure that people who did not go the college route are a lot more settled then I am because they had plenty of time to do what they want.
