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No, you don't understand.

He is going to "work on others' ideas" -- i.e. Ideas that are not his own.

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What will be really commical, is if he is going to join google with the intent to work on Google+ -- as if he were some success in the "social" play.

Remember, digg failed because it alienated the users, attempted to wrap too much UI around the content; limiting the consumption rate, and pandering to media channels.

Unless KRose can pull a magical pivot on his own visioning abilities - this would be bad.

However, I will send good thoughts his way. Let's hope we see him do something truly revolutionary to + (if that is what he is going there for) and lets hope he follows the mantra of the new Reddit CEO: "Don't Fuck It Up'



Remember, digg failed because it alienated the users, attempted to wrap too much UI around the content; limiting the consumption rate, and pandering to media channels.

To be fair, I think that was after Kevin left his role as CEO.


He was the CEO when Digg v4 was released and was one of the driving forces behind it.

Digg v4 was the dagger that killed Digg.


Banning anyone who mentioned a certain number didn't help much either. Digg's policies were terrible long before v4 came out.

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FYI - the ban was not his idea. He was very much against the idea. There was quite an internal struggle during the course of that day.


iirc that policy was reversed within a day or two and there was no major exodus from digg as a result of the event


Ah, what a day that was.




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