Morrie the Toupee Salesman

Late this week not so much because of me, but seemingly some changes in the digg api. Also last week brought the launch of Digg Spinoff no. 3 – wefollow.com. I’m including a couple of fascinating quotes:

From http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/sxsw-diggs-rose.html:

Wired.com: Kevin, tell us about WeFollow, your new Twitter directory.

Rose: I just wanted to see what would happen if you let people organize themselves in a directory based on Twitter “@” replies. So, you just Twitter @wefollow and add three hash tags you want to be listed under, and you’re automatically categorized under those tags on the website. Each tag is sorted by most followers.

It’s no business. It’s just me coming up with an idea.

Adelson: It kind of gives you some insight into how Digg began, actually. It was pretty much Kevin playing around with an idea on weekends.

Kevin: Yeah, I literally built it in a week.

From http://twitter.com/dtrinh/status/1332285293 (Danny Trinh, digg employee, about Jeff Hodsdon, another digg employee):

Sitting in the Hilton lobby waiting for @jhodsdon to fix @wefollow makes for a very hungry danny of a wingman

Feel free to track how far back Jeff’s tweets about wefollow go (http://twitter.com/jhodsdon). Somehow I’d say more than a week. From personal experience…