There are not really many good Digg tools to play with and the following one is a nice exception from the rules:
Digg FireFox Extension offers an array if options which make web browsing enjoyable. Continue Reading…
Social Media took some major hits to its collective credibility over the last week as industry giants Digg, Twitter and Facebook all suffered their own separate scandals. At the forefront of public backlash was the blogosphere, with each company’s own users chief amongst plaintiffs. Continue Reading…
If you are an active Digg user discovering and submitting several stories a day, you must be struggling to keep track of all of them. Luckily, there’s a handy web-based tool that will allow you to make sure you know which stories shared by you are receiving some traction. Continue Reading…
Popular social-bookmarking site Digg announced this week that there would be a new ad system introduced soon. Up until now users have continuously blocked ads on Digg’s pages or simply ignored them, with the end result being a consistent loss to Digg’s coffers. Now they’ve got a new plan; they’re going to let the users themselves vote up, or vote down, for each ad. The new system will inject sponsored submissions from companies seeking advertisement space directly into the voting pool with the rest of the submissions. This has never been done before, anywhere. Continue Reading…
President Obama has set a trend with his promises of “transparency” and real democracy in our federal government. It seems everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Suddenly it is en vogue to demand total honesty and forthrightness from an entity, whether it be business or government. Take for instance a blog post by Brent Csutoras, which claims there has been a noted diminution of the “transparency” and “democracy” on social news aggregation sites such as StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg, and Mixx. Continue Reading…
The social-networking world and its monetized back-end social-media circles got their chance to prove themselves recently in their first collective trial-by-fire when Google’s entire fleet of services went down for several hours last Thursday. The search giant offered no explanation at first, causing wild rumors to spread throughout the various networks, and productivity slowed to a crawl for many users. Word immediately got out that Google had its own “Fail Whale,” as news of the failure hit real-time feeds like Twitter and Facebook like only an Internet-disaster could.
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TechCrunch recently sat down with Digg founder Kevin Rose to discuss the meteoric rise of the ubiquitous social-media hub. Along with teasing us with hints, topics touched on include where it’s been, where it’s going, old rumors and new truths. The surprisingly humble Rose opens up about previous failures as well as successes, and explains just what happened all those times Digg almost got sold.
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Call me naive or just stupid but I still feel sad and even irritated when I see some stories thumbed down or buried or desphunn or whatever… Don’t get me wrong, I love well-grounded critique. What I can’t stand is uncommented thumbs-down or down voting followed by look-how-clever-I-am-and-you-are-not type of comments. Continue Reading…
How the average Digg user gets fucked:
Digg BigSpy is one of the hottests way to keep track of Google submissions. You can view upcoming or popular news and judge of the submission popularity based on the font size. Continue Reading…
