Jun 13, 2009, 08:04 by jach
And I payed 300 € for this??? I want my money back... How to rate with zero thumbs up??
Digg: The First Two Years
Owen Byrne (Jun 13, 2009)
Keynote at Dutch PHP Conference 2009 (English - US)
Keynote
Quicklink: http://joind.in/606
Comments
Jun 13, 2009, 08:09 by Anonymous
Not even close to be interesting.
Worst keynote *evah*
Jun 13, 2009, 08:18 by Conor
Definitely the worst keynote speech ever. Forget the "keynote" - maybe just the worst speech ever.
Jun 13, 2009, 09:38 by joe
Sorry, somehow missed the attention to raise hands for question "who knows Kevin Rose" as did the rest of the audience. And it happened again and again... How comes?
Jun 13, 2009, 14:35 by Gerb
Not a great keynote, really. Next time some more raunchy technical details please!
Jun 13, 2009, 19:56 by Anonymous
unfortunately, not a great keynote. The slides of the history and "changes" of the Digg-site were not interesting. They mostly appeared not to change at all.
I was expecting more technical historic information about the website. Code, hardware, software tools, etc...
Jun 13, 2009, 23:28 by nemo
Sorry, but I have to be rude: that was absolutely useless and somehow insulting.
Jun 14, 2009, 09:40 by nebulous
Next time send someone who can actually show interest in the stuff he's built, rather than a bored guy who uses terms like "bla bla bla" and "not very interesting" to describe his own slides on stage.
Jun 14, 2009, 21:14 by rickmb
I could probably listen to Owen reminiscing about the early years of Digg for hours.... but not as a badly prepared keynote on "hangover morning". Sorry.
Jun 15, 2009, 05:38 by mathieuk
Not sure how anyone expected a tour through the waybackmachine to be interesting for backend developers. Or, seeing the way it was done, even for frontend developers. Most certainly sub-par.
Jun 15, 2009, 08:34 by mihahribar
Didn't really see the point in this talk, other than allowing people to sober up from the night before.
Jun 15, 2009, 14:41 by MissYeh
I expected a more technical talk how Digg grew and how they coped it.
Jun 15, 2009, 16:39 by Anonymous
It unfortunately seems that Owen tried to focus on very minor changes to the website in a certain period of time, instead of talking about the stories of Digg, about Kevin, about issues of coping with popularity/scaling, etc.
It also seemed to have been designed for a crowd of people familiar with the intricacies of Digg in the first place, when it turned out that very few people in the audience were familiar with it, let alone some of the nuances of Digg's varied past. This was evident when Owen was asking the crowd to raise their hands about various features/people that they might have known about, and hardly any hands were coming up.
In the end, I've seen speeches by Owen about the beginning's of Digg in the past, and they were very insightful and interesting, lots of anecdotes, lots of stories about backend/technical things that came up, etc. The format of this talk was changed drastically from those, and it failed, especially with the audience.
To an audience full of Digg fans, it might have gone over better.
Jun 13, 2009, 07:50 by marce!
So what was the point of this?