[drgath]

> let me know when Kevin really innovates.

Digg created social news. The company ultimately failed because of some missteps, but the concept is still thriving on the Web today and can be seen with Likes, Retweets, Upvotes, and others. Digg Labs was cool, they had a great API, and while I'm not going to claim it was the first website to feature this, it was at least the first time I'd ever seen a website with an RSS feed of search result pages. Getting an RSS feed (when feed readers were cool) for any search query you wanted to amazing as it allowed you to follow any topic you wanted to.

Overall, the early execution of Digg was brilliant. They just thought too big.

[ojbyrne]

I feel like I have to say thank you. Execution and all....

[samstave]

Maybe fail is too harsh a term. But my poin being that the idea that Kevin is some sort of visionary worthy of the level of hype he gets is clearly a delusion.

Digg was great early on, and very quickly became muddled and ruined. To the point where it died completely and was sold for practically nothing.

Overall, it's all pointless to keep saying "hey! Look what Kevin's doing now!"