Strictly speaking, tonight’s massive Digg party in San Francisco was held to celebrate the 1 million registered user milestone announced last month (CEO Jay Adelson told me tonight they are now at 1.2 million registered users). Drinks were free, toy light sabers were passed out and the crowd was boisterous. It wasn’t as large at the Netvibes party earlier this week that drew 1,500 people, but this was one of the better startup parties thrown over the last year.
In addition to celebrating the member milestone, Digg officially released their public API and announced a contest to seek out the most creative and innovative visualizations and applications developed using the API and Flash toolkit. More details on both are at the Digg blog.
It is about time other web 2.0 sites will publish public API’s which will enable the creation of new composite application.
Great news article, Michael! I’d be celebrating to if I could establish a userbase of over one million! Great pics too.
Steve
[Unrelated to this post]
The Google Blog mentions the acquisition of Marratech’s conferencing software for Googlers.
See http://googleblog.blogspot.com.....atech.html
It is also very ambiguous on Marratech’s homepage: is the company itself acquired by Google or not?
Please, post if you have infos
Wow 1.2 million users! Sounds like a fun party.
The Digg crowd should “digg” this article
I thought Mike didn’t care about Digg and the “16 year olds it sends” and that his advertisers don’t care about it either. This comes from the post whre “Digg should sue Wired”… Yet….
I am sure it was a great party.
Happy days are here again. Time to party like it’s 1999!
Okay and we care because? Reddit sold for $12 MM. Digg may be worth 10x at 1.2 MM users? I can imagine every spammer has 20 accounts. It is losing its charm and is dominated by a few users. Oh wait, “this kid” already made $60 MM according to Business Week. Digg is close to saturation with its target audience. What next?
Until you can throw a party by spending profits, parties should be pizza and the CEO should pay for the keg out off his/her own pocket.
Drama’s right, this is like 1999 again.
- Congrats to DIGG
- More the person who buys it … The price should be fair.
great milestone of success for Digg, 1.2 millin register uses is no joke
- congrats to the Digg team and good to see companies are celebrating their success.
Congrats to Digg…one of the best success stories out there.
BTW…I was at the NetVibes party, there was no where near 15000 people.
he said 1,500 not 15,000 duh.
I didn’t get a blue vip band so my cola’s were $3
Loved Digg, the EFF support and the soder-your-own-sign guys but the Mezzanine bouncer staff stuck to the rule “no ins and outs”
Huh?? My friend can’t go get food and come back?! Mezzanine, for sticking 2am rules starting at 8pm, you’re gonna get Yelped at
btw Erik, notes:
1) Pizza. Not only no pizza but there was no food
2) Cash bar downstairs split with the house
3) T-shirt nazis with coupons handed out for tshirts early
@Jay (living in first life)
“Okay and we care because?”
Well you should care, because maybe you could learn a thing or two from Digg. Why their site has at least 800,000 real users, and yours doesn’t.
Lizi–totally echo your comment: releasing public APIs are what’s going to lead to great new killer-apps. I hope more people will see that.
Kudos to guys like Mashery for lowering the barrier for helping companies to take their APIs public. Only hope the trend continues…
so is digg actually breaking even yet?
Just sounds like a party for the in crowd to me.
I look forward to them sending out more C and D letters to mash ups that dare to use digg in the title of their app :p
Mike, great party report. Maybe we can convince you to cover these for bub.blicio.us in the future. Alright, alright, just kidding.
Anyway, curious to see the APIs in action.
remember the last time tech companies held huge parties?
I heard Googlers were jealous. NetVibes, Dow Jones, Topix, Digg, all upstaged most Valley parties as of late (at least for the psuedo-VIP crowd).
Pretty sweet news about the API release.
Wow - Thats great !!!! Dig is rocking. 1.2m wow.
Keep hearing this unmistakable “revolutionary buzz” about the company. Calm before the storm anyone?
Webtronaut Innovations, what “storm” are you talking about there?
Go Digg!
Michael Vu, FantasySportsMatrix.com
gr88 1.2 million registered users.
Congrats Digg.