Digg really took off when two things happened: 1. Silverorange came on board and made a beautiful design. 2. We jumped all over this cool new thing called "Aj

Digg really took off when two things happened: 1. Silverorange came on board and made a beautiful design. 2. We jumped all over this cool new thing called "Ajax," though really we were on it when it was still XMLHttpRequest. Humbly, I think I deserve credit for 2 at digg. I didn't invent ajax, but I was kind of enthusiastic about it back in 2005, enough to make it work for us.