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I'm sure the real story is different. My rough guess at it is * the main marketing tool that digg has left is "Kevin Rose as genius" * Kevin and the people he
by ojbyrne 16y ago
I'm sure the real story is different. My rough guess at it is
* the main marketing tool that digg has left is "Kevin Rose as genius"
* Kevin and the people he drinks with pushed for the adoption of new cool technology.
* the entire thing was a giant clusterfuck because of Kevin and the people he drinks with.
* but once that became obvious there was a need for a scapegoat so that digg could keep its primary marketing tool.
- dillydally 16y agoThat reads like sour grapes.
- davidw 16y agoThat doesn't necessarily make it wrong, either:-)
- binaryfinery 16y agoReads like "industry experience" to me.
- nailer 16y agoPerhaps it's both?
- ojbyrne 16y agoPerhaps, though I think my sour grapes specifically about digg are somewhat dead. What really makes me angry is the joke that is the VC industry, which is really the root cause of this. In April I talked to an associate at Andreesen-Horowitz (where Kevin Rose is the mayor on foursquare), who said that digg, after many difficulties, was on the right track. From their perspective, engineers are cogs in the machine and the only thing that matters are executives. I worked closely with the executives at digg, and they spent the vast majority of the time feathering their nests, and the digg v4 rollout is just the logical conclusion of them draining value for five years. Also I said this was a "rough guess." Comments on TC from people I know who worked there (there's been a mass exodus for the last two years) suggest I'm mostly correct. Finally, I think "sour grapes" is a poor rejoinder. Especially since it's the standard PR line at digg.