Listphilia

A list simply called Linux made it all the way to the front page of Digg today. It all started when someone talked about large scale Linux deployments worldwide in a thread at Slashdot. This resulted in a thread commentor creating this list and suggesting that other Slashdotters contribute to the collaborative effort. The list gained a handful of entries, then was posted to Digg. It’s a (growing) map of mass deployments of Linux around the work, and includes links to news articles such as this one about how every computer in every school in Russia will have a Russian Linux OS installed by 2009.

Listphile launched, with little fanfare, on Monday night of last week. We wanted to have a quiet first day, then announce the site to the world. On Tuesday, Mashable got wind of our existence and posted this review of Listphile, which we thought was a pretty good start. Then, shortly after, TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley did a write up, and traffic started to pick up a bit more. Numerous other blogs picked up on our existence, and Demo Girl even did a cool screencast of Listphile which was probably more cogent than my ramblings ;)The best thing about all of this if, of course, the people these blog posts brought to the site, and the amazing variety of lists that were promptly thrown into the mix. Now we regroup, fix bugs and work on a few top priority features (read: embeddable lists in your site).