{"id":1729,"date":"2007-09-24T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/24\/leah-culver-pownces-on-digg\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T15:22:51","slug":"leah-culver-pownces-on-digg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/24\/leah-culver-pownces-on-digg\/","title":{"rendered":"Leah Culver pownces on Digg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that the headline on this post will make no sense whatsoever to 99 per cent of the population, but I&#8217;m not about to let that stop me  \ud83d\ude42 It appears that Leah Culver of Pownce took a shot at the folks behind Digg over a new social-networking feature that she suggests was copied from Pownce &#8212; and to add insult to injury, she <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/tech\/leah-culver\/pownce-engineer-picks-fight-with-kevin-rose-302888.php\">used a Digg post to do it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/665437087_4e09a2b1d4.jpg?w=525\" alt='665437087_4e09a2b1d4.jpg' \/>What makes this story so odd, as Valleywag and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/09\/24\/pownce-vs-digg-who-will-kevin-rose-back\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> point out, is that Leah is part of (or was part of) the Digg inner circle, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pownce.com\/about\/\">helped create Pownce<\/a> with Digg founder Kevin Rose. She also reportedly used to be in a relationship with <a href=\"http:\/\/deltatangobravo.com\/authors\/dburka\">Daniel Burka<\/a>, a (Canadian) UI designer who has worked on both Digg and Pownce. I realize that all of this strays into the Perez Hilton, celebrity-gossip end of the spectrum, but I still find it fascinating. Was it an inside joke? A 3 a.m. post that shouldn&#8217;t have been published? <\/p>\n<p>More importantly for fans of Digg and Pownce, does this imply that there is tension between Kevin and Digg co-founder Jay Adelson? The picture Leah refers to <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tech_news\/Digg_Copies_Pownce_PIC\">in the Digg post<\/a> (which I assume was a screenshot of the feature she mentions) has vanished from Flickr, which implies that she may have changed her mind &#8212; or been talked into taking it down. As we all know, however, nothing on the Internet is ever really gone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that the headline on this post will make no sense whatsoever to 99 per cent of the population, but I&#8217;m not about to let that stop me \ud83d\ude42 It appears that Leah Culver of Pownce took a shot at the folks behind Digg over a new social-networking feature that she suggests was copied &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/24\/leah-culver-pownces-on-digg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leah Culver pownces on Digg&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}