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- Digg: What does it really stand for?
- Is Digg’s Kevin Rose really defiantly standing up to the man, the other man, that is, in his now infamous rallying cry to his million strong band of Diggers of other people’s content: “If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.”Are Rose and partner Jay...
- Tags: Digg, Copyright
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Digg: Is Kevin Rose on the level?
- What does the future of Digg portend if even perhaps its most ardent supporter fesses up to "spamming" what Kevin Rose calls a “digital media democracy”? In congratulating Rose on its 1,000,000 touted registered Digger, Michael Web 2.0 Arrington takes a bit of the credit himself for helping Digg...
- Tags: Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Blogs, Digg, Business Models, Culture
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Digg at 1 million diggers: Digital media democracy or algorithm rule?
- Kevin Rose is proudly singing the praises of his Digg today, 1,000,000 praises: It’s now been more than two years since the first story was submitted and dugg on Digg. Since then you guys have helped Digg move from a personal project amongst a group of friends to a...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Digg, Self-Promotion, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Social Capital Theory Meets Web 2.0, by Donna Bogatin
- SOCIAL CAPITAL THEORY MEETS WEB 2.0by Donna BogatinInteractive Presentation Authored by Donna BogatinFor presentation at IBM Research Center, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 11am I am invited to share my Web 2.0 thoughts with T.J. Watson Research Labs. In Web 2.0 and blogosphere fashion, my presentation to IBM will...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Usability, Enterprise, Blogs, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Brands, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Social Media, Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Web 2.0: Do users matter?
- I have chatted with Kevin Rose (see “Digg: Kevin Rose talks ‘The Real Deal’ in exclusive interview”). I asked him last September about key changes to the Digg story promotion algorithim at that time aimed at enhancing diversity of digger input with the goal of “keeping digg as useful,...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Culture, Yahoo, Social Web, Digg, Amateur Content, Social Networking, Social Media
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Digg: Kevin Rose targets social networking
- Kevin Rose’s “a couple updates” at the Digg blog restates the Digg position that “attempts to game Digg are ineffective” "Stories reach the home page only when enough legitimate users have put them there. Even if someone were paid to submit or digg a story that reached the home...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Culture, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Digg, Amateur Content, Social Networking, Social Media
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Shuzak, a social network for geeks
- Shuzak is a new vertical social network which, in the words of its founder Jawad Shuaib, aims to "do for geeks what MySpace did for friends". The site has the standard networking features including the ability to create a profile, connect with friends, and sending private messages, but interestingly users...
- Tags: Social Networks, Shuzak, Shuzak mean?My
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Blog buzz gets religion: Be buzzworthy, not boring
- Who in the blogosphere doesn’t want “Buzz”? Techmeme buzz, Digg buzz, Slashdot buzz…helps build excitement, and page views!Is blog buzz gained serendipitously?Techmeme uses a secret sauce algorithm to present “the latest buzz from leading online voices in technology,” but not necessarily all of the blogosphere’s “55 million" voices.Digg’s “digital media...
- Tags: Blogging, church, blog, Blog Buzz
- Blog posts 2007-01-07
- Should Digg hire a sales force?
- In “Can Digg go mainstream?” I underscored Digg’s omnipresence in the tech community while asking if Digg can succeed in efforts to diversify beyond its passionate, but narrowly focused, “94% male and generally twenty or thirty something techies” user base and content focus. I also touched base with Kevin Rose...
- Tags: Web 2.0, sales force, Digg, Digg&rsquo, s, digg, sales
- Blog posts 2007-01-06
- News to know: Intertainer patent suit; Vista's RAM issues
- Headlines of the day:Intertainer Patent Lawsuit Names Leading Technology Firms (Apple, Google, Napster).Speaking of lawsuits does Apple have a music monopoly issue?Mozilla 2005 revenue was $53 million.How to detect RAM problems to stabilize Vista.Open source roundup:Long-term Fedora Linux support ending. MySQL shies away from GPLv3, free version. Linux software installation...
- Tags: Linux, Instant messaging, Memory, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, Weatherbill, RAM
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Is Digg the future of news?
- Michael Arrington cites Digg as one of his “Web 2.0 companies I couldn’t live without”:"Anyone who reads this blog knows my position on Digg, where users pick what news makes it to the home page. It’s the future of news, and the most disruptive force to mainstream media since blogs...
- Tags: Social Media, Social Networking, Content, Self-Promotion, Amateur Content, Digg, Social Web, Culture, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- Digg digs up $8.5 million
- I asked Digg founder Kevin Rose in September “How long can your $2.8 million in venture funding last to finance your preferred path to profitability?”: "We are fully funded. We have decided to keep a small team. We will be able to turn a profit, we won’t need to go...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Digg
- Blog posts 2006-12-28
- Can Digg go mainstream?
- Despite the seemingly continuous hand-wringing over the susceptibility of Digg to gaming and biases--or perhaps because of it—Digg is a favored topic, destination and “affiliate” among everyone writing on or about the Web.This post reflects the omnipresence of Digg in the online tech community: We ask “Digg this,” at the...
- Tags: INTERNET, Digg
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Google PageRank: Biased and fundamentally flawed?
- Is the infamous Google PageRank anti-democratic? Jakob Nielsen says it like it is, not how people want to believe it is. His “Search Engines as Leeches on the Web” post from earlier in the year is a must-read cutting-through-the-hype antidote to search engine Google worship:Search engines extract too much of...
- Tags: participation inequality, Web
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Digg democracy: Can algorithms trump human nature?
- Kevin Rose, Founder & Chief Architect of Digg, recently expressed to me his confidence in Digg’s “sophisticated anti-gaming” processes" to maintain Digg as a “true, free, democratic social platform devoid of monetary motivations” (see “Digg: Kevin Rose talks “the Real Deal” in exclusive interview”).I spoke at length with Rose about...
- Tags: Digg, Kevin Rose
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- Kevin Rose: 'kill your television' and join me at Revision3
- Digg partners Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson want you to “kill your television” and join them instead for their “televison, revised.”Why is it “Revision3”? According to Jay Adelson, Chairman, CEO and David Prager, COO, VP Programming:• Revision 1: Cable, adding general interest channels, catering to “most common denominator”• Revision 2:...
- Tags: Revision3, Kevin Rose
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
- Why Digg fraud, Google bombing, Wikipedia vandalism will not be stopped
- Kevin Rose reaffirms he is “defending digg from spam, artificial diggs, and digg fraud.” At the same time, however, he also reaffirms Digg’s commitment to friend-based “sharing.” While Rose puts forth a variety of planned “updates” to Digg’s algorithims, it is uncertain how self-promotional manipulation of Digg by committed bloggers,...
- Tags: Digg, Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- YouTube, MySpace, Digg stats: Web 'tabloid' tease?
- Commercial Internet data shops—comScore, Hitwise —and self-serve Web traffic tracking applications—Alexa, Google Trends—supply the blogosphere with continuous fodder for tabloid style headline stories.YouTube “video mania” is announced by comScore in its August 15 press release “Online Video Officially Goes Mainstream as YouTube.com Breaks Into the comScore Media Metrix Top 50”.MySpace...
- Tags: Blogging, MySpace, Web, Web Traffic, Hitwise, ComScore Networks Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-16
- Digg at risk: 'Social A Listers' poached by Netscape
- Powerhouse AOL is wielding its financial muscle and business savvy to bolster its newly redesigned “Digg-like” Netscape.com portal by poaching “three of the top 12 DIGG users.”According to AOL and Netscape.com exec Jason Calacanis:Seriously, the fact is that the top 10 users on DIGG are responsible for 30% of the...
- Tags: Digg
- Blog posts 2006-08-03
- Web 2.0: Who needs TV, newspapers?
- YouTube reportedly serves 100 million videos a day, and Digg reportedly attracted 8.5 million visitors in May.The impressive traction the small start-ups have rapidly gained is sparking admiration, and emulation. Enthusiastic Web 2.0 champions believe the free-to-consumer services have the power to displace stalwarts of traditional media, from The New...
- Tags: Digg
- Blog posts 2006-07-24
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