mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 11 2008 | digg, technology, scalability, data center
Nothing too surprising here...but that's what makes it useful. Helps you understand the free tools that are generally used in operating scalable Web services.
Quoted: Ask Ron - our Systems Engineering Lead - the exact number of servers we have in production and he’ll probably respond with, “I don’t honestly know.” I can say we’ve got dozens of web servers and dozens more DB servers. I can say with certainty it takes six specialized graph database servers to run the Recommendation Engine and we have another six to ten machines that serve files from MogileFS
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 23 2008 | google, digg, social news, acquisitions
Quoted: Google's on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we've heard from ...
ShareViewed: 4 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 02 2008 | mixx, social software, social news, digg
Quoted: Fewer than 1 million people visited Mixx last month, less than 5% of the traffic that competitor Digg saw. Given the circumstances, Mixx's glaring lack of success to date calls a number of things about this industry into question.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 07 2007 | social news, digg, social software, acquisitions
Redot.
Quoted: Valleywag reports that the social news site, a frequent acquisition gossip item, might really be getting sold this time around.
ShareViewed: 23 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 03 2007 | user-generated content, blue dot, digg, reddit, social news
Quoted: In this era of fragmented audiences, with newspaper journalism feeling the pressure of blogs and the Internet more generally, the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) undertook a study comparing mainstream media coverage of news with user-driven news and content sites Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 29 2007 | journalism, new york times, newspapers, traffic, web 2.0, digg
Was curious about traffic to The New York Times website.
Quoted: "The New York Times site (which has some articles behind the TimesSelect pay wall) attracted a unique audience of 12,960,000 users in February, who combined for 455,527,000 page views."
In comparison (from http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_digg_really_more_popular_than_facebook.php ), Digg has 1/2 the page views but 2x the number of visitors.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 20 2007 | digg, facebook, web 2.0, social software, traffic
This is kinda surprising. But, as pointed out in the comments, users spend much more time on Facebook: 12:56 per visit as opposed to only 1:47 on Digg.
Quoted: I find it all hard to believe - not only that digg has 22 Million monthly unique visitors, but also that they have more monthly unique visitors than Facebook. digg is still a very techie user base, whereas Facebook is seemingly far more mainstream. Or is it?
ShareViewed: 21 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 02 2007 | blogs, digg, kevin rose
Kevin Rose on the Digg HD-DVD key fiasco.
Quoted: 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.
ShareViewed: 10 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 07 2007 | blue dot, blogging, digg
redotted from eric: Help Blue Dot's newest blogging feature get picked up on Digg! Please go and vote for it!
ShareViewed: 26 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 10 2007 | digg
Quoted: * # of servers Digg had at launch: 1 (rented)
* # of servers Digg has today: 103
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* # of stories submitted the first week: 923
* # of stories submitted last week: 15,412
* # of stories submitted (all-time): 1,001,865ShareViewed: 2 Times
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