Global Rich List and the users of Digg.com
Globalrichlist.com is an award winning website that POKE did back in 2002, 2003 (or something), that has this week (again) made it into the spotlight.
Iain mentioned the webs ‘coming back to life’ phenomena a few days ago in his post titled Tea for 2.0, where he talks about another POKE project, Teabuddy.
That’s one of the things I love about online. Things can just live on forever, getting discovered by new audiences up to years after they originally launched.
This monday (13th november), Global Rich List made it to the top of Digg.com, with the post ‘I am the 447,241,380 richest person in the world!, and later on in the week it’s number two on the ‘biggest diggs of the week list‘.
What is Digg?
Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on digg is submitted by the digg user community (that would be you). After you submit content, other digg users read your submission and digg what they like best. If your story rocks and receives enough diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of digg visitors to see.
What’s interesting is not the fact that Global Rich List is a good, simple and interesting webpage.
What’s interesting is not the fact that if you get high up on Digg you get loads of traffic.
What’s interesting is how a good, simple and interesting page such as Global Rich List get used by the users of Digg.
Thousands and thousands of Digg users have visited Global Rich List during the last few days, and none (so far) have donated money.