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May 2, 2007 · Filed Under Silicon Valley · 1 Comment 

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The 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b -d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 code and internet democracy.

Here is a good example of internet democracy at its best, apparently someguy called Doom9 manage to extract a string of numbers (a hexadecimal string, to be exact) that represents the master AACS key used in encrypting HD-DVD discs. A few days later someone got exicited about it and post a story about the crack together with the key, and it hit the front page of Digg, hours later it was removed from Digg’s front page, the second attempt saw the same consequences.

Just like these guys, I am excited about this whole democracy process that Digg created,and soon Digg cave in to the pressure by not removing any articles due to the flooding of such articles by the thousands. Digg CEO said it was clear he did not yet understand the chaos that was coming. The post only added fuel to the fire.

But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.

This is a fine example of Democracy at its best, even the creator of Digg are not able to stop it. Reminds me of the Apple iPhone issue where Apple demand the removal of the iPhone skins.

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Website Flags

July 3, 2006 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

If every website has a flag, what would it be like? Google Blogoscoped has a list of interesting flags that represent some of the big guns online. Yahoo is the oldest and most honorable of all ’net sites, and their flag is almost identical to China’s flag, must be due to the strict censorship Yahoo has.

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On the other hand, Digg has a snowy or hazy grain like flag, that is because of the amount of articles that Digg is hosting. Yahoo’s flag is still the best among all.

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The New Digg On The Block

June 16, 2006 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 1 Comment 

I just simply couldn’t believe this, a clone version of Digg - Netscape Beta? Where is the innovation? AOL has virtually copied all the features from Digg like how people leave a story, user vote for it and depending on the vote numbers, the story appears on the homepage or is buried down.

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Another great blow to Netscape, the user interface is identical but from my experience, a sidebar will appear when you browse away from the protal, with the url of the blog masked. This kind of marketing strategy belongs in the 90’s. You have to give the user the freedom to navigate away and stop forcing them to stick with your portal. Google is a good example of how to build loyalty without bombarding them with ads.

But Digg is destined for bigger things than tech news. The above screenshot of Digg version 3 (not showing? wait for it), leaked from a beta tester a week before its launch, reveals categories for “Business” and “World News.” This should give Digg a leg up on AOL’s rumored general-interest Digg killer.

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