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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

EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook

On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...

Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Britain moves against illegal file sharing

CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...

Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users

Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...

Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook Connect

At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users.

Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Benefits, Human Resources

Videos 2008-07-25

Images: NASA uncovers secret of the Northern Lights

NASA's fleet of THEMIS satellites reveal that explosion of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon causes the aurora borealis. by CNET News.com

Tags: NASA, Network Technology, Networking, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-25

Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts

A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...

Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

IDA Disassembler on the iPhone? Yep.

Ilfak Guilfanov has reported that IDA has been ported to the iPhone. Unbelievable? Yes. Is it useful? Who cares! IDA on the iPhone is hot! Don't act like you don't want IDA for your iPhone, you know you do. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, IDA, Blogging, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Gateway stops selling PCs direct

Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...

Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame

Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...

Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

10 essential gadgets for students

I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...

Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-25