centernetworks.com - 1/4/2009
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Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider has an investigative post today where he analyzed the advertising that is running on Digg. At the end of his investigation, he noted that Digg is clearly running targeted ads now because he viewed ads that matched three of Digg's categories. He ...
blog.digg.com - 12/31/2008
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blog.digg.com —
Hi everyone, We wanted to address some complaints
about weaknesses in our duplicate detection mechanism and provide
some insights on upcoming changes to the Digg promotional algorithm. I head up Research and Development at Digg and my team is ...
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Dupes & ongoing updates to Digg’s promotional algorithm
ipetitions.com - 12/30/2008
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ipetitions.com —
The petition Power users are controlling digg... Many
people have great submissions and they never become popular.
Here's a quote from one of Digg's very own users "Just as an exemplary anecdote, I've been a user on here for nearly three years ...
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Make Digg a Community Website again! Petition : [ ...
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Reddit Figured Out How to Monetize Social News. Will Digg Listen?
Profy —
... Reddit is well-known for its intellectual audience that is usually supposed to be more grown-up than that of Digg - hence one can often find stories here that will be more thought-provoking that anything one can ever see on Digg. And while Digg is still struggling with its advertising trying to monetize the huge traffic, Reddit has figured out a totally new model that will probably turn into a success for the site. ...
Where Digg Fails, A Success for StumbleUpon
Mashable! —
Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. You can follow him on Twitter
By now you have probably read the countless articles about how flawed the contextual advertising system is on Digg. The system at Digg is certainly flawed, but not just in terms of contextual advertising. And one site - StumbleUpon - it seems, plans to capitalize on those flaws (and very well might be successful in doing so).
If you’re a successful ...
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USocial CEO: 'We're gaming Digg'
latimesblogs.latimes.com 3/6/2009 —
USocial is gaming popular social bookmarking sites, including Digg. Credit: uSocial
Among Digg's and StumbleUpon's tens of millions of users, the social bookmarking sites have successfully dealt with numerous troublemakers who try to ...
Jealous Of StumbleUpon’s Success, Digg Is Developing Of Web Toolbar
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If I had to choose between StumbleUpon and Digg about whether I believe one is more valuable, I would definetely choose StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon suggests different content to every one of their users using an algorithm that is based on interests. ...
Digg's Miserable Business
alleyinsider.com 12/20/2008 — BusinessWeek got ahold of social news site Digg's financials.
For a site that gets as much traffic as Digg.com does -- 22.6 million monthly uniques, according to Quantcast -- the numbers are gruesome:
Last year the company lost $2.8 million on ...
The Building of a Better Digg Commences
webpronews.com 1/29/2009 — Just before the New Year, Digg Founder Kevin Rose put up his list of New Year's resolutions . Third on that list was: "Build a Better Digg." Less than a month into 2009, the site appears to be on that track. read more
DiggBar Keeps All Digg Homepage Traffic On Digg
techcrunch.com 4/3/2009 — DiggBar , the new shortURL and toolbar service from Digg, is certainly useful. I expect it to become my default short URL service on Twitter since it is so easy to create a short URL by simply adding Digg.com/ in front of any URL. It will redirect ...
Why is Digg.com Taking the “Social” out of Social Media?
searchenginejournal.com 3/18/2009 — It seems that over the past several months, Digg has been waging a war against it’s own users and alienating the very people who have helped Digg to achieve its current level of success.
Since it’s never fair to make accusations without ...
Digg’s Lack of Ad Targeting is Hurting Revenue
marketingpilgrim.com 12/29/2008 — By Trisha Lyn Fawver
Will they or won’t they sell social news site Digg? It’s been on the rumor mill for years, whether it’ll sell to Yahoo or Google , no one can tell. But I can tell you one thing - you can’t sell a ...
DiggBar Digs up Bitter Nostalgia Among Critics
blog.wired.com 4/4/2009 —
Digg's new URL-shortening feature is aggregating as much controversy for the popular web site as it is traffic.
Critics
are taking aim at the structure of DiggBar — a toolbar appearing at the
top of a browser when users click a link at Digg. ...
It Costs Digg $5 Million a Year to Run the Internet [Black Holes]
valleywag.com 12/21/2008 — Perhaps Digg really is the future of the news business. The headline-discussion site, once an icon of the Web 2.0 movement, is losing millions of dollars a year. BusinessWeek's Spencer Ante got ahold of Digg's financial statements . They are ...
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