stay classy
April 10, 2009 - 1:13 PM
If you're a dumb person, surround yourself with smart people. If you're a smart person, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you. I like disagreements, provided they are constructive.
Last week Digg launched a new product, DiggBar, to a mixed response. For a little background, the DiggBar is really two products in one:
1. A URL shortener that turns long URL's like http://matterkkila.com/2008/11/02/decisions-are-made-those-who-show/ into shorter versions like http://digg.com/u19nx that makes them easier to send across a number of platforms (i.e. email, im, twitter, etc).
2. A frame bar that sits on top of websites you visit using a digg shortened url, that looks something like this:
I have been using this product internally for a few months now and find it pretty awesome. A lot of work went into it by a lot of people at Digg. It is something we were and are really proud of.
I have heard a number of arguments from people, some of them actually very interesting and speak to the very nature of what a URL is and how one should be used, while others have been less than constructive. The most common ones I have heard center around the topics of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and "Framing".
While this post won't talk about these disagreements specifically I would like to point out two things I have come across this week.
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To which I reply: Stay classy.
