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Kevin Rose: “One Of Us Has To Leave”
- kneath 17y agoAbsolutely fantastic. I hope one day to be able to get into a hissy fit with one of my co-workers and just stop working for a year (but still get paid).
- nkohari 17y agoYou might be able to get away with it if you own (at least part of) the company. :)
- frou_dh 17y agoI watched the most recent Diggnation podcast and Kevin Rose had a hell of a time trying to figure out the difference between a megabit and a megabyte.
- covercash 17y agoYeah, I felt a little awkward for him when I watched that.
- nkassis 17y agoHow many CEO can make the difference
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoAny CEO with a bit of technical competence should know this.
- frou_dh 17y agoHe's a creative guy but I thought he was supposed to have reasonable tech chops!
- _pius 17y agoIn fairness, they were drunk. Not that that's much of an excuse, but should be mentioned nonetheless. :)
- ojbyrne 17y agoI doubt this very much. People have been leaving digg in droves. Jay was fully vested and probably bored.
- dnsworks 17y agoJay founded Equinix. After five years, how could he possibly remain interested in yet another news aggregator with gross revenues that are less than his personal wealth? I just find it interesting that Rose is the new CEO. I've always felt that Rose was an actor that Jay hired to play a part, in order to feel like he was putting his film-school background to good use (which is also the reason for the frat-boy fart joke tv show that Rose does).
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- ojbyrne 17y agoIt says "interim" CEO. So there'll be a search.
- ojbyrne 17y agoJust to be more precise - when I say "people leaving" I meant employees. I don't actually know about users.
- dpritchett 17y agoKevin's been effectively absent for a year and now is charging in with a mind to rework the imminent V4 release of Digg. Sounds like a risky move; hope it works out for them. Edit: To clarify, I'm hoping that this move doesn't signal a second-system mindset settling in at Digg HQ.
- snorkel 17y agoQuibbling over the delayed launch of Digg V4. Ahhh, the perils of waterfall release cycles.
- _delirium 17y agoYeah, the very idea that there's a launch of a Digg V4 with multi-year dev cycles seems weird to me. Usually you don't do websites as if you're rolling out a new release of Windows.
- smackfu 17y agoI can kind of see the point. Website users are infamous for hating change. So it can be easier to make big changes / redesign, and then fix little things, rather than to make small changes that are constantly getting pushback.
- _delirium 17y agoHmm, I can see that reasoning, but I think it might overall be worse. If you change a ton of things all at once, you do get the user gripes over with all at once, but you also have less continuity than if you introduce a few changes here and there. I'm not sure that a website wants to give users the retro feeling they experience when they were used to Windows XP, installed Vista, and now feel like everything's weird and different. Admittedly that's wishy-washy, and I'm not against bundling up some amount of changes into groups to roll out, especially since presumably some kinds of changes depend on each other anyway. It just seems wrong if it's becoming a huge thing equivalent to traditional product-release cycles.
- ssclafani 17y agoYou can release a new version all at once and avoid user gripes by launching the new version on a subdomain so users can get used to it. Digg did this with their last version and probably will with V4. Facebook and Zappos did as well.
- vito 17y agoI like how they changed "one of us is going to leave the company" to "one of us has to leave" and still treat it like it's a direct quote.
- pavs 17y agoBy "they" I hope you are referring to Michael Arrington, who likes to call himself a "journalist". He is good at manufacturing news and stroking drama when there is none.
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- pavs 17y agohttp://techcrunch.com/2010/01/02/the-tyranny-of-government-and-our-duty-of-confidentiality-as-bloggers/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/02/the-tyranny-of-government-a...
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- aresant 17y ago100% agree that they are improperly quoting. But the article pretty well supports their title if they removed the quotes.
- nkassis 17y agoActually, one of us could have been anyone. It's a quote out of context.
- dnsworks 17y agoWould you expect anything less sensational from TechCrunch?
- axod 17y ago"...the fact that Digg has no iPad strategy" Ah dear the iPad stuff just gets funnier and funnier.
- staunch 17y agoMy guess is that the root cause is really Digg's (relative) stagnation. They all expected to sell out years ago and the drudgery and risk is probably getting to them. They took too much VC, shot for the stars, and missed -- the social bookmarking Friendster. Alexis and Steve of Reddit should feel pretty smart right about now.
- yesimahuman 17y agoWell, they supposedly have 75 employees, so maybe that says something about how the company was run...