Top 5 Web 2.0 Startups that Diggers didn’t see coming.
Some of the great Web 2.0 startups of today are over a year old and have been going strong for some time now. But when they release and submitted their site to Digg for the huge traffic boost, it didn’t catch on. This article shows you the 5 top websites that today are huge, but Diggers didn’t… digg.
- YouTube -Youtube is the video sharing site that everyone uses, is a household name and was recently bought out for $1.65 billion dollars. When it was originally submitted to Digg, almost two years ago, it caught on pretty well, but never made it to the homepage.Everyone claiming it was the Flickr of video, it got huge buzz on Digg, receiving 110 diggs the first time the story surfaced, and two stories later got an additional 31, and 12. But never enough in the right amount of time to make it to the front. And now its bigger than Digg. Much bigger.
- del.icio.us - Digg’s biggest competitor. When released and submitted to Digg over 26 months ago, very little attention was payed. Getting 12 Diggs originally, and another 8 in a duplicate story served up a month later.However, del.icio.us prevailed after the lackluster Digg response. A story submitted about 3 months after the original one, it was made popular with the title “Help Promote Digg, submit it to del.icio.us” linking right to their homepage. And of course, 10 days later a story saying del.icio.us had just got funding popped up.
- Bloglines - Oh no! One of the best RSS feed aggregators today (and my reader of choice) was not received well by diggers at all. The initial submission linking to the Bloglines homepage got 7 diggs, when it was submitted 25 months ago. A month later, it got 11 diggs on resubmission.Now, Bloglines is of course a staple in the Blogosphere, and often one of the highest readers, according to many people’s FeedBurner stats. Speaking of FeedBurner…
- FeedBurner - If not the most widely used feed tracking and management web app out there today, poor FeedBurner couldn’t get that Digg traffic boost it was looking for.The initial submission linking to FeedBurner’s homepage got only 6 votes by the community, and unlike its web 2.0 startup friends, this link was not resubmitted. The description of the story might have led to the poor turnout, however.
- Twitter - This doesn’t seem like a very big site to included with the likes of YouTube and FeedBurner, but there’s a lot of people out there that use it everyday. Twitter also integrates SMS messaging, for cell phone updates. Cool, right? Well, when it was submitted just over 200 days ago, diggers begged to differ.This is included on this list because it had the worst total turnout here. 2 diggs, one by the submitter of course, and only one person after that agreed. I would say Twitter isn’t doing so bad now, after that.
Honourable Mention
Flickr- Flickr was out before Digg, and before someone submitted the Flickr homepage to only receive 4 votes, there were stories linking to flickr photos.
So there you have it. Five huge web 2.0 companies, ranging from well over two years old to just over 200 days young. These companies are quite successful today, and many, if not all have been funded. The research for this article was done with the Digg search, and that’s it.
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Javier Marti
March 25th, 2007 at 2:12 PM
They’re not seeing Trendirama coming either!
Great post, I don’t know where I found it, but it was a motivation boost to stay focused on these delicate startup times
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