Archive for March, 2006

Digg has come a long way in just over 1 year

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

How quickly things can change. A look at the Digg.com website from just over one year ago. This shows how quickly a great concept can go from simple design to a highly evolved social bookmark /news site. This is a snapshot of Digg.com from 14 months ago.

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Gawker Stalker

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

 Gawker Stalker Website

Sometimes it seems that people get too worked up over mashups.  The newest news craze is Gawkers site “Gawker Stalker”  .  It appears that the news media is attempting to make this look like a site that actually tracks celebrities in real time.  The site posts sightings of celebrities that are NOT posted in real time. This doesn’t appear to be something that would help a “stalker” to find his/her favorite celebritiy.  As far as I know, celebrities don’t stay at the same location for days unless it is their home or hotel that is being reported on.  This is only a site that lets you know where celebrities are seen.  I don’t see this as a huge invasion on their privacy. 

This site tracks celebs in New York city.  It would be cool to have a site to  list celebs sightings in LA.  Does anyone know how to code this?  We should get started on it.