We thank Digg. Also, wanna know something funny?
Ideastorm, Dell’s own site for getting suggestions from their customers, has had “Popular Stories” as the title of its home page since its inception. 
(Check the titlebar in your browser’s window.)
That tiny dictional mistake (calling their customers’ ideas stories, if you missed it) goes to show that Dell had planned to make a ‘Digg clone’ for themselves since early on. Digg, the social news website that lets users vote on what stories get on their front page, has inspired many other startups to experiment with social voting.
Let us be the first to say: FeVote was inspired by Digg. In fact, Digg inspired us enough to set up a site to make and vote on feature requests… just for Digg! When we were dugg, one user commented that FeVote was a “digg-like site about digging features you would like to see on digg,” and that was exactly right.
Though the still-present Digg category on FeVote is probably tribute enough to Digg, here it is in writing: Thanks, Digg! May your app be the inspiration for many more great ideas.
