blog.digg.com - 12/31/2008
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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 responsible for many of the advances in the ...
valleywag.gawker.com - 12/27/2008
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valleywag.gawker.com —
kevin rose Digg Founder Wants to Date Jennifer
Aniston Kevin Rose , the boyish founder of Digg,...
a testosterone-soaked news-discussion site, has resolved to "date someone seriously" in 2009. Specifically, he plans to woo Marley & Me star Jennifer ...
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centernetworks.com - 1/4/2009
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centernetworks.com —
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 ...
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Did Digg Really Improve Their Ad Targeting?
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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An end to “dupes” on Digg?
VentureBeat —
... “Improvements in duplication detection are underway and expected soon,” Anton Kast, Digg’s head of research and development wrote on the company blog today. Kast says that there will be a new system that allows Digg to track users who continuously submit duplicate content. Presumably, these users could be banned from the service if they don’t stop such behavior. ...
Digg Will Address Duplicate Entries. Sadly Tools Not Included, But Top Submitters Are.
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... Digg has advised that their popular social voting site will be addressing duplicate entries and other issues.
Anton Kast, head of R&D for Digg said in a post to the Digg blog:
Duplicate submissions have been an ongoing issue, and we are working on several new tools that will help address this. Improvements in duplication detection are underway and expected soon. We’re also working on a new system that will, among other things, allow us to track users who abusively submit duplicate content. While we haven’t fully hammered out all the ...
Where Digg Fails, A Success for StumbleUpon
Mashable! —
... To prevent such people from ‘gaming’ the system by inflating votes, the social news sites increase the sophistication of their promotion algorithms by making the ‘gaming detection’ more robust and demanding a higher degree of diversity in votes on a story before it can be promoted and get the traffic (which at that point the algorithm deems deserved). ...
Twitter Wants to Shut Down uSocial, But Why Can’t It? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Digg neutralized its networks by implementing new “diversity” protocols to stop friends from digging each other’s stories to the Digg front page. Facebook has been cracking down on ...
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Update on Digg’s Promotional Algorithm
blog.digg.com 2/13/2009 — Hi all,
We’re constantly tweaking the Digg algorithm to ensure that a unique and diverse set of Diggs drives the content on the homepage. We’ve made a few notable enhancements to our promotional algorithm recently, to ensure that all ...
Digg’s Sorry Revenue Stream, And Rumors Of An Experimental Ad Product
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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 ...
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
pulse2.com 2/27/2009 —
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. ...
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
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 ...
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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