Comments on: 2004 Video Clip: Early Digg Demo By Kevin Rose

By: site ekle

site ekle — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:04:40 +0000

If an idea strikes, write it down. It doesn’t matter if you finish it — just get it into a file. A time will come along, and you’ll see that it is the right time to pull that file out, refine it, polish it, and publish it.

By: Recognize Design :: Design, Marketing and Beyond

Recognize Design :: Design, Marketing and Beyond — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:51:42 +0000

Digg cracking down, deleting user accounts…

It bears to remember that when he founded digg, Kevin Rose believed that it’s main benefit was the fact that it did not depend on editorial control of content, which was his gripe with Slashdot.
Now, it’s no secret that ‘Digg farms…

By: Daburu.org / Beginners guide to social bookmarking sites

Daburu.org / Beginners guide to social bookmarking sites — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:50:58 +0000

[...] # 3. Reddit - Born only a year ago, Reddit is an emerging star in the social bookmarking world. Why? In October of 2006, Reddit was purchased by Condé Nast Publications (the owner of Wired Magazine). As a website, Reddit isn’t much to look at. Ninety percent of the site is text based, leaving for shutter-fast load times and an extremely user friendly interface. Although Reddit lacks the features akin to other popular social bookmarking websites, it still stands to be a worthy adversary to other top sites. On a side note, Reddit’s current design is reminiscent of the original Digg 1.0 design. [...]

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:15:39 +0000

I think it’s likely that a techtv producer gave Kevin the go ahead provided he not make the bit look like an ad (which would bother the g4/comcast people). As Chris (#29) said, if he had noted that he was behind the day’s featured site it would probably attract more attention. He did direct users to his profile which linked to his personal site, so people could figure it out if they did some browsing. A response from Kevin would be nice though.

By: CrunchNotes » Capturing Early Days of Startups on Video

CrunchNotes » Capturing Early Days of Startups on Video — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:13:36 +0000

[...] The other day I posted a YouTube video of Kevin Rose demo’ing a very early version of Digg, and talked abou the importance of capturing the early days of a startup on video. Scrybe is an unlaunced startup doing this now to market the company, but in the future if they are successful we’ll look back and be glad the video exists. [...]

By: Tollie

Tollie — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:53:24 +0000

IIRC, Digg was shown on TSS well before the G4 take-over, when Patrick and Leo were co-hosting, and Kevin and Dan were merely on the sidelines. Again, IIRC, Leo made it clear that Kevin had created the site.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:09:47 +0000

@ Andy (comment #8):
If you’re a regular reader of TechCrunch then you should know that Arrington makes a full disclosure if there is a post about something that he is affiliated with and he usually leaves those kinds of posts to someone else. We only saw a part of that ScreenSavers clip, so we don’t really know if Kevin disclosed his affiliation with Digg before or after that demo. For his sake I really hope he did.

By: What is BarterGeek? » Blog Archive » Digging the Early Days

What is BarterGeek? » Blog Archive » Digging the Early Days — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:05:42 +0000

[...] I just watched a Youtube video of Kevin previewing Digg.com before it sky rocketted into the success it is today. Check it out. [...]

By: Matthew Demyen’s Blog » Early Digg Video from The ScreenSavers

Matthew Demyen’s Blog » Early Digg Video from The ScreenSavers — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:28:29 +0000

[...] The Techcrunch blog uncovered an early video of digg. Kevin Rose was presenting the site on The Screen Savers back in December 2004. The reason I found the video interesting is the way in which Kevin was describing the whole thing. He kept talking about the site as if it wasn’t actually his. In reality, Kevin was one of the founding members of the site, and this whole self promotion without letting anyone know its his site seems kind of deceptive. I don’t really know why he wasn’t more upfront with the matter that it was his. Maybe the producers at G4TV wouldn’t have allowed him to show it has they known. Either way, I remember that it wasn’t long after this video that he actually quit G4. Regardless, the video itself shows off a very old version of Digg with a lot less features and an uglier design. Take a look here. [...]

By: E. David Zotter

E. David Zotter — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:10:29 +0000

I wish that I had an emplorer that would let me use there resources to promote my personal projects….

Best,
E. David Zotter

By: askars

askars — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:39:24 +0000

So much have changed since then. ScreenSavers was my favorite show as I’m more interested in tech. A really nice way to give his product a heads up. Way to go Kevin.

By: Ragu Sivanmalai

Ragu Sivanmalai — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:38:17 +0000

I used to track interesting stories through digg by using it like a search engine.For example If I want to track a latest news about walmart,I will try the following

http://www.digg.com/view/world.....?s=walmart

By: Search Engines WEB

Search Engines WEB — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:04:18 +0000

http://1digg.notlong.com

Here is a lSearch Feeds link the complete topics submitted to digg
from Day one to the Present - in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

By: Kevin Rose clip 2004, Adobe Soundbooth, Welcome to 1984, Google Blog Alert « Technically Speaking

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:25:15 +0000

[...] I saw this earlier today, and I had to make sure everyone was able to check it out. This was Kevin Rose from an archived 2004 clip off the old Screen Saver’s show. This is where he showcased digg as in the third person. Great clip, you have to give it a view. [...]

By: Ali G

Ali G — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:01:20 +0000

Yeah Greg. These pplz all be playa hating. Kevin be on a paper chase and in the streetz of the SVC only true gangstaz survive. Props to K-Ro for staying on the grind and hustling. Only god can judge that boy! Believe that! Pretty soon he be driving through the hood sittin on 24s and riding spinnaz with mad b*tchez on his jock. They sayz there ain’t no atheists in foxholes and there ain’t no moral pimps in the SVC. Word. Kevin Rose big up yourself! Much respect. Westside.

By: David B.

David B. — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:27:34 +0000

Wow, that’s awesome. I used to watch The Screensavers all the time. I wonder if I saw that live, but never actually thought anything of it. Kevin Rose is now worth a lot of money because of that site. Pretty crazy

By: Diogo Azevedo » Como era o digg em 2004 ?

Diogo Azevedo » Como era o digg em 2004 ? — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:26:32 +0000

[...] Hoje vi no TechCrunch uma interessante notícia, não se tratava de nenhum novo lançamento na Web, ou uma grande compra, mas sim, de um simples vídeo. O vídeo era de um programa de TV que nem passa mais nos EUA, sendo “enterrado” pelo G4 (programa que aqui no Brasil abordava apenas games), e no vídeo mostrado, um dos apresentadores era Kevin Rose, co-fundador do Digg. [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:22:18 +0000

Well the thing, people might have been MORE interested if he said it was his site, it probably would have made me listen a bit more attentively at the time.

By: doug

doug — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:40:16 +0000

I love digg…but that whole “they” “they” “they” had me chuckling. A visionary entrepreneur using completely unethical tactics to promote his business. Classic.

But, I’m not sure I can blame him. He obviously should have made clear that digg was his site…but, I mean, he had a great platform to promote his product to his target audience (tech-savvy folks). Why not use it?

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:37:45 +0000

Judge not lest ye be judged. Kevin can do whatever he wants. Nobody was hurt in any way, shape, or form. He wasn’t on trial and doesn’t have to say anything he doesn’t want to. A lot of people sound like player haters and there aint no time to hate. I wish him and all of You great success in life.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:33:29 +0000

I love how Kevin, and he does this on Diggnation too, never calls his website his.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:34:29 +0000

Yeah, I’m pretty sure I heard Kevin say “lets check out MY site” - or was it something else?

By: Vik

Vik — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:47:11 +0000

Listen to the last part of the video. Kevin uses the word “quickly” as he starts discussing del.icio.us. This means that he spent most of his allotted time going over Digg.

Man, the more I watch this clip, the more I hate Kevin. Grrrrrrrrrr!!

By: Dogtown

Dogtown — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:42:26 +0000

He should have mentioned he was affiliated with Digg in order to maintain Screensaver’s objectivity. I am sure show watchers and website users want to know the content they consume as ‘news’ is authentic and not advertisements. However, since he was on his way out, why not use screensavers to advertise his next product. I am sure there was wink wink agreement that allowed him to do this, as long as it didn’t look like an advertisement.

anways, get your paper, k-ro.

By: Akio Morita

Akio Morita — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:38:33 +0000

I am little disappointed to read this. It reminds me that the YouTube phenomenon had some serious eyes and access to serious moola through their connections at PayPal (don’t get me wrong, I love YT, but let’s not make it out to be something like a kid in Kansas strikes it rich…)

It makes me wonder what is the story with Facebook, and Mr. Z’s connections. I can see he is a master promoter of himself…anything more behind it?

So, Kevin, ya let me down on the aw-shucks routine with this one…still like digg, but somehow it is knocked down a peg or two in my idealistic mind.