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February 2nd, 2006
On Friends
by Joshua Porter | 
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Boy, this one is right up my current alley (see yesterday):
Richard MacManus interviews Digg founder Kevin Rose:
“The problem with rating individual users is that it really doesn’t scale well. We have 160,000 registered users and it would be impossible for everyone to go through and directly rate everyone else. What we have created, which is quickly becoming a popular way to discover new stories, is our friends system. This enables you to create a group of trusted users who read each others articles and trust each others content.”
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