How Kevin Rose digged most famous website Digg

 Kevin Rose

My previous article on social bookmarking made me to write something about Digg. So just to inspire people who haven't started working their dreams this would be a good article to go with.

One of the most said word among bloggers, content writers and article submitters to get appreciation for their content or to get unusual traffic to their sites is Digg. This social bookmarking site has made its online presence way back in 2004 on 4rth day of December. Digging into its history I got how it all started.

Kevin Rose (Right) and Jay Steven Adelson (Left)

Kevin Rose who used to produce and host segments in a cable television network called TechTV in US having 45 million subscribers was the key person behind Digg. Having an idea about Digg, Kevin has searched for a programmer who could code this site and he found Owen Byrne through a famous freelancing website called eLance. By October 2004 he got his hosting and his famous Digg.com domain ready after spending 1300 dollars. Some sources say Owen Byrne was paid 10$ per hour for coding his website in PHP.

Owen Byrne and Kevin Rose

From November 2004 Ron Gorodetzky helped this project by administering on its server side. Jay Steven Adelson was also among them who acted as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Digg after its official launch. This website design was being done by Dan Ries.

Ron Gorodetzky

As every story has a tough beginning this story also has. Having his entire mind set firm on how to make news being published in his front page and make people voting them that which they liked most had made him to spend all his money. He had to do a down payment on a house out of his saved money but made up his mind on spending on digg which made his girlfriend fight with him. After spending his money and time on Digg he was all set to launch this site on Dec 5th 2004.And It happened as he wished.

From the day of its launch until it reached to the list of 100 top visited websites of US it was a encouragement for the staff who were constantly looking at the increasing numbers day by day. Users were multiplying, popularity was increasing, topic submissions are at their peak and its not over that was just a beginning. After constantly increasing their servers, upgrading their features and increasing their employees was all being efficiently done at a good pace. Not falling behind at any level their income also started coming by placing ads from top advertising companies like Adsense.

Now within few months after its launch no wonder Kevin Rose was on the list of Young entrepreneurs. One of the top magazine called Business week had its cover page which ran with words like “how this kid made $60 million in 18 months”. He was also noted in many blogs and sites as the most successful earner of adsense. Many things changed from then, Kevin also acted as the CEO of Digg later resigned from that post and now is even out of digg. Digg is presently the 4rth version after its launch. If you want to have an eye on the company’s advancements and more can refer wikipedia.

Some Interesting Facts about Digg:

Man who digged his way Kevin Rose

• First post ever published after launching Digg was http://digg.com/news/technology/Google_Cheat_Sheet on Dec 6, 2004.
• First user who registered in Digg was Brian on 7th Dec 2004.
• Jerimiah Udy was the name with which the domain Digg.com was initially registered. Kevin dint want his name to come out then. He spent $1200 to get this domain registered. Jerimiah was Kevin's friend.
• Kevin offered the owners of digdig.com $500 but couldn't get it.
• It had been launched with only one server that too a rented one and later had 103 servers by 2006.
• 923 stories were submitted in the first week of its launch.
• Daniel Burka was the man behind designing a new interface for Digg.
• Matt Williams is the current CEO of Digg.
• Digg is 136th most visited website of the World with more than 23 million visitors a day.
• It was estimated that Digg use to make $250,000 per month only through Google Adsense.

Hope This article inspired you to start a new beginning. If you keep figures of this site aside you can make yours. Only thing which catches a readers mind is the income part but never have a big eye on money. Just do your work with perfection. Money breaks relationships so dont ever begin anything for greed of money. Hope you understood.