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46% of the Digg Front Page is Controlled by 50 Websites
46% of the Digg Front Page is Controlled by 50 Websites
Recent changes and restrictions made by Digg.com to encourage diversity in the range of users whose submissions reach the front page have had 2 profound results. Newer and less active users have seen their stories reach the front page, but the sources that are able to hit the front page have ...
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SXSW: Digg's Rose and Adelson Talk About Diggbar, New Features
SXSW: Digg's Rose and Adelson Talk About Diggbar, New Features
blog.wired.com — Digg CEO Jay Adelson (top left) and Founder and Chief Architect Kevin Rose (top right). Photo: Jim... Merithew/Wired.com AUSTIN, Texas -- Social news sharing site Digg is one of the web's top crowdsourcing success stories. By letting its ... (more) SXSW: Digg's Rose and Adelson Talk About Diggbar, New ...
StumbleUpon To Launch su.pr ShortUrl Service
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techcrunch.com — StumbleUpon is preparing to launch a shortURL service (a web service that provides short aliases for redirection... of long URLs, like TinyURL or Bit.ly ) in the next couple of weeks called su.pr . Founder Garret Camp announced the new service on ... (more) StumbleUpon To Launch su.pr ShortUrl Service
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Digg's Favorite 50 Sites
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Not as good as you might think: Soshable.com tracked every "front page" story on Digg for a week, and found 46.6% of Digg's front page comes from only 50 websites. Some sites see virtually everything they write hit Digg's front: "Digg has become the personal RSS feed for sites like ...

Around the Web 3.18.09: IBM eyes Sun, SXSW techies go lean but upbeat, familiar names stock Digg.com
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... -- Failed diversity strategy or natural selection? Some 46% of Digg home page stories during the past week came from only 50 websites. (The LA Times is No. 27 on the list). Soshable.com ...

Can Digg Restore the Enthusiasm That Made the Site Popular?
WebProNews Feed — ... But it doesn't help when lists like this one from Soshable.com indicate that nearly half of all Digg front page stories come from the same group of sites: ...

Rose Admits DiggBar Is Similar To StumbleUpon, Homepage Still Lacks Diversity
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... Soshable.com did a similar study yesterday.  It turns out that they found out that 46% of the Digg front page is controlled by 50 websites.  Below is a list of the top 30 “whitelisted” sites that become popular on Digg on a regular basis. ...

Can Digg Restore the Enthusiasm That Made the Site Popular?
WebProNews Feed — ... But it doesn't help when lists like this one from Soshable.com indicate that nearly half of all Digg front page stories come from the same group of sites: ...

Tweetmeme – Tweet This Instead of Digg It! Add ReTweet Button to Your Blog
(Obsolete Feed) — ... Other than huge number of eyeballs Twitter brings news faster, maybe this is the reason why slowly Twitter becomes my number one source of information. I feel that Digg is loosing it’s position as “breaking news” source. Twitter is just faster! And it also becomes irrelevant because of the “power-user” / “power-sites” bull***t – seams that Digg is slowly loosing the game. ...

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