blog.wired.com - 3/18/2009
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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 users vote up content that interests them, ...
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soshable.com - 3/18/2009
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soshable.com —
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 ...
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46% of the Digg Front Page is Controlled by 50 Websites
mashable.com - 3/26/2009
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mashable.com —
Barack Obama, Twitter’s second most popular user (CNN
has passed him), updated his Twitter account today for...
the first time since taking office. The update is to promote the President’s online town hall , which encourages citizens to submit ...
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@BarackObama Updates His Twitter!
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IBM reportedly in talks to buy Sun Microsystems [MarketWatch]
WPP, Google to Fund Web-Ad Research [WSJ]
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Digg's Rose and Adelson Talk About Diggbar, New Features [Epicenter]
Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes joins General Catalyst as an EIR [PEHub]
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... . Dubbed Diggbar, the toolbar will expose how many times people have clicked a Digg story, not just how many people dugg it, according to an interview Wired conducted with Digg founder Kevin Rose. The number of clicks a story gets is not a metric Digg currently shows users. It's not available yet, but the company hopes to roll it out in the coming weeks. ...
Rose Admits DiggBar Is Similar To StumbleUpon, Homepage Still Lacks Diversity
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... regular basis.
“In many ways, Digg has become the personal RSS feed for sites like TorrentFreak, xkcd, and Cracked as the vast majority of submissions from these and other sites will hit the front page regardless of the submitter,” stated the Soshable editor that put together the study.
As every day passes I become less interested in Digg and more interested in StumbleUpon. What are your thoughts? Leave a comment.
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Digg launches a pervasive, software-free toolbar
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... noting that hopping to a random story has never been something you could do from Digg's own site, and as of now is only available on the DiggBar.
Two things that appear to be missing from today's release--and have been long promised, is support for Facebook Connect log-ins, and an improved search tool. Digg was announced as a Facebook Connect launch partner back in July of last year, and it's still not a part of the site. And Jay Adelson has recently gone on the record with Wired, and on his own Facebook page about an updated version of ...
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