Comments on: The Thing About Friends and Digg: Hit up the Big Guns

By: edhardydiscount

edhardydiscount — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:54:53 +0000

Arrington gets hundreds of new

By: Kevin Rose: Digg’s Biggest Hypocrite » techipedia | tamar weinberg

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:29:44 +0000

[...] yours) because I thought you might learn. However, it’s sadly not the case and clearly your fan base is clouding your [...]

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:10:11 +0000

Click on the link — those are his friends.

By: give_me_time

give_me_time — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:09:14 +0000

“has approximately 28,500 friends”, do you remember their friend’s name? add me too, joke aside, this thing is powerful!

By: An Open Letter to Kevin Rose » techipedia | tamar weinberg’s blog of stuff

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:23:55 +0000

[...] Digg’s users. As for me, I like my 52% ratio. I’ve worked hard for it without being a big gun at [...]

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:30:16 +0000

Right, Vince. The question isn’t about Digg’s scalability, but rather, Mahalo’s.

But Kevin Rose is celebrity, and people like what celebrities like. That’s why you hear reports of stores selling out of particular products that are endorsed by movie stars. That’s why you have Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees on a huge billboard in NYC endorsing the Movado watch brand. That’s why Anna Kournikova promotes the Canon PowerShot brand. People generally assume that these celebrities actually practice what they preach, and they want to be followers.

By: Vince Teoh

Vince Teoh — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:03:19 +0000

Since there was some mention about scalability, I think Digg is much more scalable than Techcrunch, simply because the former is a UGC platform. Digg will live on regardless of whether Kevin Rose submit another Digg because there are enough userbase to continue submitting/ digging; Techcrunch won’t have such luxury should Michael Arrington retire.

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:38:48 +0000

No doubt. And a very timely article was published today about the celebrity status that comes with maintaining popular Web 2.0 sites. Michael Arrington gets hundreds of new startup tips weekly, from what I've read. One notable quote from the article: "Suddenly, TechCrunch could make or break a start-up." I bet that Kevin Rose could do so as well.

By: Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:47:54 +0000

Great post…you have to say that this type of stuff is expected. The only problem with being one of these types–like Kevin, for example, is that he probably has tons of people bothering him all day long to give their “new site” or concept “his blessing”.

I guess this is why the “celeb types” get paid a lot of money to endorse things. If (your favorite) celebrity endorses the product, then it must be good, right?