Digg Doesn’t Inspire Digg — as currently implemented — is no more relevant than the old Digg was a few weeks ago, prior to Betaworks’ make over. I still don’t understand the six week sprint: if they have a compelling vision that they want to implement, and this isn’t it, why not wait until you’ve implemented something larger? This Digg launch reminds me of the News.me approach, another Betaworks project, where I felt Betaworks was working on an experiment around a collection of ideas than a product vision. Maybe this is just the next in that series of experiments, and Digg is the newest batch of chemicals to blow up?

Digg Doesn’t Inspire

Digg — as currently implemented — is no more relevant than the old Digg was a few weeks ago, prior to Betaworks’ make over.

I still don’t understand the six week sprint: if they have a compelling vision that they want to implement, and this isn’t it, why not wait until you’ve implemented something larger?

This Digg launch reminds me of the News.me approach, another Betaworks project, where I felt Betaworks was working on an experiment around a collection of ideas than a product vision. Maybe this is just the next in that series of experiments, and Digg is the newest batch of chemicals to blow up?

1 August 2012 4
diggbetaworks

Notes

  1. marksbirch said: All great products start off as mere experiments. News.me (and now Digg) seem to be heading in an interesting direction.
  2. stoweboyd posted this

← Previous Post Next Post →

About

Web anthropologist, futurist, author. My focus is the future, and the tectonic forces pushing business, media, and society into an unclear and accelerating future. (More.)

Working on longer format projects, Sign up for the newsletter.

GigaOM Research analyst and curator.



Also writing beaconstreets.com.

Contact me. or ask me a question.



My Vizify profile.

Socialogy

  • Brian Solis | Brian and I debunk big data, and Brian makes the case for empathy.

  • Deb Lavoy | Deb is dubious about management's inclinations, and says, 'Just because you are networked doesn’t mean it necessarily helps you understand, or realize your needs more effectively.'

  • John Hagel | John offers up some great insights, like the fact that passion is lower the larger that businesses get.

  • Euan Semple | A chat with my old pal, and the author of Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do

  • Will McInnes | The author of Culture Shock and managing director of Nixon/McInnes

  • Jennifer Magnolfi | An interview with the woman who said, 'Work is not a place you go, it's a thing you do'.

    • Hot Now

  • What Drives Us? | A draft chapter of my book, discussing motivations, Maslow's hierarchy, and fluidarity.

  • Socialogy: Interview With John Hagel | I Speak with Joh Hagel about the innovation at the edge.

  • Complex organisation arises from webs of interaction among causal factors | So, it turns out that DNA is, in fact, a great metaphor for business culture, but only after you realize that DNA is not a few hundred off-on switches, but instead a universe of unknowable complexities, that we can interact with, and understand at some abstract cartoonish level, but not control, and never fully comprehend.

  • Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven | Paul Ford

  • Innovators Get Better With Age | Companies make a mistake by relying too much on the innoations of the young, because Nobel laureats don't come into their prime until their 50s.

    • Oldie

  • Infodemics | 2009 | Passing incomplete or inaccurate information about some risk event can make people take actions that increase the damage of the event itself.

    • Lynx theme created by Andrew Stichbury for Tumblr.