Digg - one of the largest foreign-based blog hosters Bashny.Net

Digg - one of the largest foreign-based blog hosts, if I may call it that. It was founded in November 2004 by Kevin Rose (Kevin Rose).



According to Wikipedia, Kevin met Steve Wozniak (Steve Wozniak), one of the popes Apple.Eto happened in the show The Screen Savers, Steve was a guest of the program. After the show they went to the cafe, where they discussed the old days and what unusual things to do in those good Steve '70. And somehow Rose dawned and he went to Steve ideas with user-controlled community. Also in 2004 he took out a purse of $ 1000, hired a freelance programmer, and rented a server. Paid $ 1,200 for the domain digg.com and svomestno with Owen Byrne (Owen Byrne), Ron Gorodetsky (Ron Gorodetzky, brother of Anton? :)) And Jay Adelson (Jay Adelson) began to develop Digg, a new website that would combine a sharing bookmarks , blogs, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. "In the People" project came December 5 2004.

In October 2005, Digg.com has already received $ 2.8 million from investors

In August, Rose photo was splashed on the cover of BusinessWeek, titled "How small earned 60 lemons for 18 months».

Now let's see how to work there.

Ckromnaya desk, no pathos.