blog.digg.com - 10/8/2009
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We’ve heard from you that performance is important and the Digg engineering team are busy working on making our site load faster. We’ve been moving static resources such as CSS, JavaScript and images to a CDN and testing several providers. We have been converting to high performance ...
readwriteweb.com - 10/5/2009
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readwriteweb.com —
In a bit of "gotcha" journalism, interviewers Arnt
Eriksen and Thomas Moen got Digg founder Kevin Rose...
to confirm that his company is developing an application for the iPhone . When Eriksen referred to having seen a sneak preview of the ...
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Kevin Rose Accidentally Announces Digg's Upcoming iPhone App
blog.digg.com - 10/8/2009
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blog.digg.com —
In the spirit of testing different ways to
make ads on Digg better (similar to what we’re...
doing with Digg Ads), we’re launching some new ads today called Digg Content Ads and we’d love your feedback. These ads are in limited release so only a small ...
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Testing Digg-fed “Content Ads”
techcrunch.com - 10/16/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Digg founder Kevin Rose launched a side project
called WeFollow , a Twitter directory, earlier this year....
Twitter users can go to the site and add themselves under a specific category. Without much in the way of marketing, the site has grown to ...
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Digg Acquires Kevin Rose Side Project WeFollow
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Digg Makes Community Less Relevant, Removes Icons From Submissions
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews —
... Why did Digg do it? Apparently they did it to save costs. Digg engineer John Quinn stated “Today, we’re also making some changes to reduce page payloads and minimize HTTP requests with subtle UI changes. By removing the 16px user icon from stories on the home page and other story lists, we’re reducing HTTP requests to Digg for a warm cache load by around 75%.” ...
Digg Is Also Feeling The Need For Speed
TechCrunch —
... In a post today, Digg’s VP of Engineering, John Quinn, talks about what Digg is doing to try and make the site faster. This includes moving static resources like CSS and JavaScript to Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and switching to higher performance distributed databases. But the one of the biggest changes is something so small, that it’s kind of humorous Digg didn’t do it a long time ago. ...
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