Kevin Rose claims he had no idea about this:
http://twitter.com/kevinrose/status/2729862918
just now reading the digg short url discussion, I was not aware this changed and will check in on it tomorrow (was on vacation for 2 weeks)
http://twitter.com/kevinrose/status/2729862918
just now reading the digg short url discussion, I was not aware this changed and will check in on it tomorrow (was on vacation for 2 weeks)
Leo Laporte had Digg co-founder Kevin Rose on his show and asked him about this. You can see it on Twit Live – the Diggbar discussion starts at the 11:26 mark. Here is an excerpt:
* (Laporte gives Rose the background from an article on Techcrunch)
* Laporte: Is that true?
* Rose: That’s a good question.
* Laporte: You don’t know?
* Rose: I’ve been gone for 2 weeks so I don’t know what got pushed, what code got pushed and how it functions but my last understanding is that what we wanted to do is have it so that if you click on a Digg URL it takes you to the Digg stories so you can Digg it. Rather than providing a short URL service that just forwards and does redirection we would just do a URL service just for Digg articles. Just like the same way that Techcrunch does “techcrunch slash 85374″ – if you go to that you’re not going to go to some other site you’re going to go to techcrunch. That’s the story.
* Laporte: So you’re backing off on the original idea which is a general URL shortening service…
* Rose: Correct.
2) Wait for new links to be created
3) Without telling anyone stop being a URL shortening service and keep all the links to yourself
4) Deny you knew it went on but then admit you knew exactly what went on
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5) Profit?