Amazon Sells Gold at the price of silver, and can’t handle the rush
Some couple of weeks ago, amazon.com put up a vote for what item they would sell at a discount. One of the items, an X-Box 360 sold at $100, drew %84 of the votes and was subsequently declared the definite winner on major news site digg.com.
Digg is widely known for the “digg effect,” a phenomenon where digg users bring down a website due to too many request from digg.com. The story was submitted 4 days ago by “Allsortshop.” The story gathered 3099 diggs, which, though it didn’t bring down the might amazon’s servers, did attract many computer savvy people to amazon.com. Geeks, as they are called by others and themselves, often use there knowledge of things like the “F5″ button to refresh windows. That, combined with the prevalence of the Firefox web browser and Fasterfox, an extension that allows one computer to connect to the same site far too many times, did become enough to overload amazon.com. I was unable to access the page for 10-15 minutes and when the “smoke cleared” all units had been sold out. Happy shopping!
