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Digg plans more categories and recommendations; could better targeted ads be next?

Speaking via video link, Digg-founder Kevin Rose gave a brief appearance at last week's NextWeb conference held in Amsterdam (see Read/WriteWeb's excellent report) in which he hinted at the social news site's plans over the "next six to twelve months".In a further move away from just featuring technology news (the...

Tags: Social News Sites, Digg

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Guy Kawasaki's 'Truemors' launches

Combining elements of Digg with the micro-blogging format of Twitter, Truemors lets users "post rumors, news, and sightings" so that "anyone with web access can read and rate them within minutes." The site which was co-founded by ex-Apple evangelist and VC, Guy Kawasaki, accepts submissions via email, SMS, online, and...

Tags: Digg, Social News Sites, Twitter

Blog posts 2007-05-16

Digg founder, Kevin Rose: we'll go down fighting if that's what you want

Over the last 24 hours all hell broke loose on the social news site Digg. After a user submitted a story containing the encryption code needed to crack HD-DVDs -- which by most interpretations is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA -- Digg received a take down notice...

Tags: Social News Sites, Net culture, Digg

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Digg gets more political; USA Today disowns readers; Wordpress supports OpenID

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…Digg gets more political. Not sure how I missed this, but the social news site, Digg, has added a new section dedicated to stories covering the 08 US presidential election....

Tags: Social networking, Blogging, OpenID, USA Today, Wordpress, Digg

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Digg, a political snapshot

Do Digg users favor one presidential candidate over another? Are there attempts to game the social news site, by one set of supporters? Is the so-called bury-brigade censoring political opinion? Its quite possible that the answer to all three questions, is yes. After it was claimed that supporters of Republican...

Tags: Politics 2.0, Digg, Social News Sites

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Five ways to make Digg more social

When Kevin Rose announced that the top digger list would be no more, he also alluded to plans to make the "social" news site, even more social. At the moment each member of the site has a profile, and can add "friends" in order to keep track of what stories...

Tags: Social News Sites, Digg

Blog posts 2007-02-06

Digg, the times they are a changing

In an attempt to limit people trying to game the social news site, Digg has announced that it will no longer publish a list of its top users. Diggs users are ranked based on how often they submit and vote on stories, along with how successful they are at getting...

Tags: Social News Sites, Digg

Blog posts 2007-02-02

Digg's seven-step recovery program

Muhammad Saleem has written a short paper outlining seven steps that Digg needs to take in order to achieve success in 2007. For those that dont know, Saleem is one of the sites top diggers (currently ranked 20), and regularly posts commentary on the social news scene on his own...

Tags: Digg, Social News Sites

Blog posts 2007-01-02

The 'YouTube-ization' of Digg

Digg, the popular social news site, has launched a number of new features aimed at broadening its user-base by tapping into the rising popularity of online video and podcasting.Richard MacManus over at Read/WriteWeb calls this the YouTube-ization of Digg:The most significant of the changes is the increased focus on multimedia...

Tags: Digg

Blog posts 2006-12-18

Was I just censored by Digg?

After the recent discussion about companies offering bribes to Diggers, I thought it would be interesting to run a poll asking if its time for the top users to be paid by the social news site itself. I was interested to hear the views of the wider Digg community so...

Tags: Diggs, Digg, Social News Sites

Blog posts 2006-12-09

Additional Resources

Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers

It seems that not a day goes by without a new media alert regarding bad things in the chinese supply chain. First it was lead in our toys, then it was melamine in our milk, and now it also may be backdoors in our counterfeit Cisco hardware. ...

Tags: Router, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Hoping for AppleTV update at Apple's notebook event

The clock is ticking toward the big Apple event - you know, the one where the company is expected to announce the sub-$1,000 notebook and/or a new design to the MacBook line and/or the move into Nvidia's graphics chipset and/or something altogether different. (Dontcha just love the Apple rumor mill?)...

Tags: Notebook, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Copyright czar is born: Prez signs Pro-IP law

Get ready for the Copyright Czar. President Bush just signed the Pro-IP Act (the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008), which provides for a new executive position dedicated to managing copyright protections. The bill also increases penalties for infringement...

Tags: President, U.S. Congress, Intellectual Property, Leadership, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Microsoft and Yahoo: Ballmer's 'failure' now a 'dodged bullet'

Remember that eleventh-hour decision -- when Microsoft opted not to buy Yahoo? Remember how so many pundits portrayed CEO Steve Ballmer's walking away as a fireable offense? What a difference a few months make. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Asset Management, Search, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-13

CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over

Being a CEO today just stinks. The economy is melting down. No one trusts each other. And the chieftains don't even know if their customers will survive. What's this mean for your technology department? A lot of upheaval and perhaps one big do-over that starts in 2009. ...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, CEO, Technology Department, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Facebook as social rule of thumb?

This new course I'm taking introduces sociology, and I assure all you budding sociologists who read that this new-found knowledge isn't going to my head. It seems for many, especially students who are forced into a semi-confined place as others, take precedent, that Facebook confirms events within our lives. ...

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-13

OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?

Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ship commercial offerings of StarOffice and Symphony based on the new OO 3 release and have a...

Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Training, IBM Corp., Symphony 1.2, Conversion Tool, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Open Source, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-10-13

9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net

Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That's what a military judge ruled last week, according to the Miami Herald. The issue in the 9/11 trail of Mohammed and his coconspirators is what resources they...

Tags: Battery, 9/11 Commission, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?

Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing tidbits of information about our personal lives. Admit it. The old site was getting cluttered with all of those shared...

Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-13

The candidates on tech

Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....

Tags: Industry, Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Obama, H-1B, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13