Digg
Digg started out as an experiment in November 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson (who serves as CEO), all of whom currently play an active role in the management of the site.

“We started working on developing the site back in October 2004,” Kevin Rose told Richard MacManus of ZDNet. “We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004.”

Although the domain name of Digg is registered under the name Jerimiah Udy, he is not one of the original founders of Digg, but rather a friend of Kevin Rose’s. The domain name was registered under Jerimiah’s name because Rose did not want others to know that he was associated with Digg. He wanted Digg to stand on its own and not become a message board for all things he personally stood for.

Kevin Rose’s friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name “Digg”, because users are able to “dig” stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered by the Walt Disney Company.

The original design was free of advertisements, and was designed by Dan Ries. But as Digg became more popular, Google AdSense was added to generate revenue. The site was updated in July 2005, to “Version 2.0″. The new Digg featured a friends list, the ability to “digg” a story without being redirected to a “success” page, and a new interface designed by Daniel Burka, of the web design company silverorange. After the redesign, some users complained about the lack of the simplistic, minimalist layout used in the original version of Digg. The site developers have stated that in future versions a more minimalist design will likely be employed. On Monday June 26, 2006 V3 of Digg was released with specific categories for Technology, Science, World & Business, Videos, Entertainment and Gaming as well as a View All section where all categories are merged. A Sports category was added about a month later.
Even though Digg is depicted as a user-driven website with non-hierarchical editorial control, there have been recent complaints of intervention by editors to promote certain stories, bypassing the choice of users. The same editors are accused of hiding these facts by censoring stories which mention them and by banning users who have posted them. Founder Kevin Rose responded by blaming the promotion on users rather than staff. An exposé by tech blog Forever Geek uncovered what it felt was obvious intervention by editors to promote or bury certain stories, bypassing the choice of users. It also implicated Kevin Rose himself for digging the same exact stories in the same exact order as the users, and therefore being complicit in the promotion. A statistical analysis of the diggs showed that an average of 7-8 of the users dugg each others stories within the first 24 diggs per story that made the front page, and Kevin Rose dugg 28% of these stories within the first 24 diggs. The accusations were addressed extensively by Rose in an appearance on This Week in Tech. On that podcast, as well as on the official Digg blog, he stated that the charges stemmed from a coincidence (two stories that Rose was found to have been the 17th person to “digg”), and that the whole snafu arose after ForeverGeek users were banned for artificially inflating the digg counts of their stories.

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Hello everyone and welcome. I know that you want to become famous, I can read it in your eyes, your desire for popularity, fame(just joking).Anyone wants to be popular, and some people can draw attention very easy in a positive way, making you feel that he/she was born to be popular, so i have some ideas, tips on how you can become popular.

• Being popular means drawing attention, and for that you have to be open, happy, make people notice you even if they don’t want it, just like the sparks of a firework. Confidence, outgoing, are traits that must be trained. Just like when you are in love for the first time, you are shy, scared, insecure, goofy and you try to make him/her to like you. Its kind of similar to our subject here. Remember you must be yourself, you’re popularity must reflect your style, you’re personality. Don’t be cocky and macho if your personality is romantic for example.
• There are also other ways to gain popularity. You must find what talent is hidden within you and bring it to the surface. With your talents you can become famous. You can be a famous painter, or a photographer, a singer, or a dancer. There are many choices to pick. Now don’t try singing at home under your shower like in the movies, or paint your walls, ok? Good. Find your talent
  and express it, work hard to become the best, that ever existed, that way you gain fame. Remember that there isn’t only you that have your talent and there is going to be a lot of competition. Many people wants to be the best so you’ll have to work very hard to get better, improve, make a name for yourself.
• You must know that nothing can be done just like that by a hand clap. You have to know that popularity has to be your second nature, keep that in mind, when you practice in front of the mirror(the best way of getting confidence), and take it baby steps. God didn’t create the world in one day you know.

• Don’t try to copy someone else because it’s not going to work. You have to be unique, have your own style, something that reflects your personality, something that suits you.

Think of it, try it, work hard, and remember the key to success is YOU.

Feel free to comment, add your points of view, share us your stories, your successes and fails. Bye Bye.

Sweex

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Before I was starting this blog about tips of “How to become famous”, a friend of mine asked me this question :

“Who’s Really The Most Famous Blogger?”

But I couldn’t gave him an answer.

If you know somebody that have a real famous blog please submit the link of his blog.

First step: Create an Account

Step 2: Go to your Channel and Edit it.

Put an user friendly background image, edit text color, put some information about you.

Step 3: Try to find as many friends as you can.Late you can ask them to visit your video and comment about it.

Step 4: Make your first video! All you need is a video camera, or a compact digital photo camera that can video record. Film something beautiful like skies, people, insects or also can make your own script.Or you can film your pet doing crazy things like this movie After you have captured the movie use any tool you have to cut it , to make it. You can use iMovie (Mac user) Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere or whatever the tool you use.

After the video is published, post a bulletin to all your friends, you also may join forums and post there links to your video and ask them to watch it. In this way your video will be most viewed on youtube, and as you know most people want to watch the most viewed videos on youtube.

I have seen a video with over 55,800,000 views.

Step 5: And that’s it !

But the best way to become famous on youtube is to be really talented, creative and friendly. Use your imagination!!!

Things You’ll Need:

-Internet access
-Some disposable income
-Some celebrity style pictures of you

Find every social networking website out there and register. ex: (hi5, myspace, etc)
Put up celebrity style pictures of you in various locations in various outfits.
Never put up a picture that makes your life look ordinary, even if it is,
you are trying to become a celebrity!

You don’t need to have to be a real talent, just be everywhere and be fabulous.
Celebrity is about marketing!

Once you get your profiles up, looking great, start clubbing!
Go out every weekend or popular night in your town!
Have a signature style or item you carry around to the club, you also may try a T-Shirt with your profile URL on it.
Make sure that the club photographer takes pictures of you and link that to your online profiles.
Another move is www.youtube.com, so you can be caught on tape during clubbing , and you may upload that take on youtube.

Start volunteering for amateur photo shoots or anything at all that will give you publicity !