First of all, I have to thank my main man, Ricky, who made many incredible changes to the Splashtop Blog. Our launch came a few days earlier than we had originally thought. Some of those last minute details that we had “plenty of time” to take care of crept up on us quickly. Little things like permalinks and subscriptions to tracking services were thrown by the wayside in order to get the site up fast and efficiently. Luckily, Ricky, who is already a busy guy without maintaining our site, was able to circle back around and make some changes.
One change that has become a standard on blogs, news sites and video hosting services is the ever-present Digg symbol that can be found all over the web. The blocky gray man with a shovel adorns many a website, including this one. Whatever your preference is, be it Reddit or Digg, these little buttons point to a revolutionary way we find quality content.
We no longer need to depend on any organization to point us to things that are of interest online. Back in 1996, I worked at a company in Santa Cruz, California called Imagesmith. One of our side projects was a site called, LinksAhoy (by the way, I used the Wayback Machine on those old-school links). Besides, the obvious benefits of an ever-present pirate theme, LinksAhoy would give you reviewed, amazing sites every day. It was similar to Cool Site of the Day, if you remember that. We used to let people submit sites that they thought we should track. We were so close! Digg, as you probably know, was the first site that allowed registered users to submit sites and then other registered users to vote on or, “Digg” them.
This simple paradigm has changed the way millions of people find the great content. No longer does a site editor get to choose what you see, but millions of people participating in finding and digging content point you in the right direction. My favorite example of this occurred a couple of weeks ago when Splashtop was “Dugg” almost 1500 times! Check it out, here.
So, feel free to use Digg and Reddit whenever you see a post on our blog that you think others might enjoy!
