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- Digg's HD-DVD hack code posts: new issues to think about
- Im certainly not the first to pontificate on Diggs decision earlier today to restore numerous, well, Diggs to an article that contains code for hacking HD-DVDs.I do have a somewhat different take than others, however.IMHO Digg is an aggregator, not a publisher.In the offline world, a newsstand or bookstore...
- Tags: Predictions and Observations, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Digg's new digs
- Kevin Rose told me last September that “Digg will look completely different a year from now” (see "Digg: Kevin Rose talks ‘The Real Deal"). Three months later, it already does. Digg not only looks different, it is different. Read Kevin Rose below on the latest incarnation of Digg. Interface...
- Tags: Podcasts, Digg, podcast, Diggs, video
- 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
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- The Digg toolbar for Firefox 3
- Yesterday afternoon, Digg launched a new plugin for Firefox 3. I immediately installed it. Right away, you notice a new toolbar in your browser and a button next to the address bar to toggle it on or off. How does it work? It passes...
- Tags: mozilla firefox 3.0, digg, mozilla firefox, toolbar, andrew mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Zittrain explains the future of the Internet
- Oxford professor and Harvard pioneer Johnathan Zittrain came to the CBS Interactive offices in San Francisco on Tuesday to speak and sign copies of his new book "The Future of the Internet... and How to Stop It". His presentation was called Civic Technologies. ...
- Tags: Router, Technology, Zittrain, Internet, Routers & Switches, Networking, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Cool Tools Friday - ShareThis Adds Digg Tracking
- There are about 6 billion social media and social networking tools. Perhaps that number is a bit of an exaggeration, but what is not an exaggeration is how many emails I receive regarding cool tools either new or potentially forgotten and how many of these tools that I accidentally fall...
- Tags: Digg, Blog, Social Media, Tool, Productivity, Blogging, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Digg.com Widget (zip)
- If you are a digg.com fan and a mac user then this is your perfect widget. A neat digg.com widget for mac, resembling the same look and feel as of digg.com Web site, displaying the latest diggs. Resizable content, and includes major topics. This version is the first release on...
- Tags: Digg, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-03-17
- Digg "townhall" meeting this Monday - what's on the agenda?
- Last month, the social news site Digg faced a mini-revolt, following changes to its story promotion algorithm which made it harder for top diggers to achieve a front page success. (Top diggers are those whose story submissions most frequently get promoted onto the site's front page.) During...
- Tags: Digg, Engineering, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- Dell XPS or MacBook Air: the shock of your life
- Earlier today I saw Russell Shaw's critique of the MacBook Air where he says he prefers the Dell XPS on a cost benefit basis. I don't plan on investing in an Air because it looks way too flimsy for a keyboard pounder like me. But I did think that the...
- Tags: Shock, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Laptop Computer, Keyboards, Notebooks, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Looking back at the years most popular posts
- Every year ZDNet sends out a list of our most popular posts. This is based purely on pageviews so it could have been a particularly witty or deceptive title or just something from a big news day. It's always fun to look back and since pageviews are a good metric,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Rich Internet Application, Post, Adobe Flex, E-mail, Online Communications, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Why was YouTube video of iPhone SIM card hack removed?
- Removed w/out explanation. Don't you hate it when that happens?Over the weekend, Pete Cashmore of Mashable.com picked up more than 550 diggs for a post featuring a YouTube video of a guy who successfully switched out the iPhone SIM card to make outgoing calls from his iPhone on the...
- Tags: YouTube, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Digg diggs Microsoft, not Google
- Digg diggs Microsoft, not GoogleThe End of DiggFirst Digg badly screwed up their own user comment system and now they go from Google to Microsoft? Looks like it's back to ol' Slashdot. I could care less about the ads since I use Adblock, but it's just the principle.I find it...
- Tags: Digg, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-26
- Digg diggs Microsoft, not Google
- An announcement made today by Digg's founder, Kevin Rose, prepares his users for an upcoming change that I'm sure would have caused a stir if nothing was pre-announced. Google has been used by the company to serve advertisements on their website since it was launched, but today Kevin says...
- Tags: Google AdSense
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Hey, Digg, it's REALLY time to update your tech topics
- We take a break from our regularly scheduled postings to explore an issue that has been bugging me for months now.That's the fact that Digg's Submit a Story topic areas really could use some updating.Since I submit to Digg often, I've noticed some glaring absences. Let's be constructive and turn...
- Tags: Predictions and Observations
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Easy (sort of) and free (sort of) webcam security
- True closed-circuit security systems are pricey often unobtainable for K-12 educational institutions. However, there are many times and places where video surveillance would be both useful and appropriate. Front entrances, main offices, final exams, and standardized tests could all benefit. Enter Motion, an open source bit of...
- Tags: K-12, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Offer: BlackBerry Curve on Amazon and you'll net $30.01
- Robb at RIMarkable digs and deserves Diggs for digging up a BlackBerry Curve offering on Amazon.com that after a $75.00 rebate, and the signing of a two-year service plan with AT&T, you'll actually be paid $30.01 to purchase the Curve in this way.The math: $44.99 to buy, $75 rebate, =$30.01....
- Tags: BlackBerry Curve 8300, BlackBerry Promotions
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Barak Obama's "volunteer" should cost his campaign $39,000? I don't think so.
- Social media is a double-edged sword for politicians and companies. Consider Barak Obamas MySpace page, which wasnt run by Barak Obama. Created in 2004 by Joe Anthony, it recently became the center of a small PR storm when the campaign asked for and was denied more control of the content.Anthony...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Digg's revolt: Scary yet invigorating
- A Digg user posts a HD-DVD hack code that may work and all hell breaks loose. Digg pulls the story down on a cease and desist letter, Diggers revolt, blogs erupt and company founder Kevin Rose issues a mea culpa and says the company...
- Tags: Web Technology, Social networking, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- 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
- The Digg HD-DVD processing key debacle
- Who would have thought that one 16 digit hexadecimal string could cause so much upset. Im talking about the HD-DVD processing string. But its all a fuss over nothing. Digg or no Digg, the information is out there in the public domain and theres nothing anyone can...
- Tags: In the news, HD-DVD, DRM, Blu-ray
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
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