The launch of the social news site Digg in 2004 was the perfect example of a good idea at the right time. That was the year the term “Web 2.0″ started being thrown about to describe the rise of new web technologies that allowed for more interactive sites, and an increased focus on user collaboration. Back then, the notion of a news site that was driven almost entirely by users was completely new and innovative, and Digg quickly rose in popularity. It sparked the rise of many similar social news sites, and was also the beginning of founder Kevin Rose’s move from television personality to web entrepreneur.

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Some faces in IT we see over and over again. The media write about them practically every week. We figured we would show you some pictures you DON’T normally see. Linus Torvalds, Linux As you’re used to seeing him. Young Linus having a good time. (We skipped the one were his shirt’s gone off. No [...]

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Digg has a problem. That problem is that the more users Digg gets, an increasing amount of the stories that reach the Digg front page are bound to be unavailable, brought down by the storm of visitors from Digg. If Digg keeps growing it will automatically kill almost any site that reaches the front page. [...]

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