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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

Why is MySpace News a ghost town?

When MySpace News launched last month, I described it as the latest move to turn News Corps social networking site into a one-stop-shop, providing as many reasons as possible for its users to stay within the site. MySpace keeps adding new features and content previously provided by 3rd party sites,...

Tags: MySpace, Social Networks, Social News Sites

Blog posts 2007-05-15

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

MySpace News goes live

Following the rumors last month that MySpace was getting into the news aggregation game, MySpace News has now gone live. Built on technology developed by Newroo (which News Corp. acquired last year), MySpace news combines the aggregation functionality of Google News, with user voting similar to Digg.From Londons Times newspaper...

Tags: Social News Sites, Social Networks, MySpace

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Murdoch 2.0: MySpace News

News came last week via Terry Heaton that MySpace is getting into the online news aggregation game. MySpace is of course owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation, and Murdoch is a media mogul of the old school. After inheriting his first newspaper in 1952 he has built a multinational empire...

Tags: MySpace, media

Blog posts 2007-03-13

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

USA Today adds social networking features

The online version of USA Today has undergone a major redesign, adding a bunch of social features to allow readers to create a profile, write a blog, comment and vote on articles, upload images (citizen journalism-style), and send each other messages. The general response throughout the tech-blogosphere has been positive,...

Tags: Blogging, RSS, networking, USA Today, social feature, blog, social networking

Blog posts 2007-03-05

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

Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field and the social web

The coverage of Steve Jobs Macworld keynote was a great demonstration of the social web in action, and the benefits it can bring to news coverage. We had multiple bloggers live-blogging from the event, AJAX-powered text and photo feeds from sites like Macrumors, and the self-appointed editors of Digg (i.e....

Tags: Social News Sites, Apple, iPhone, Steve Jobs, Reality Distortion Field, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2007-01-11

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

Wanted: social news scammers

In response to the revelation that top users of Digg are routinely offered bribes by companies hoping to get their story onto the front page, the ever-controversial Jason Calcanis is offering his own bribe - this time to users wholl dish the dirt:Id like to try and out the advertisers...

Tags: Jason Calcanis

Blog posts 2006-12-12

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

Poll: Should top Diggers be paid?

After the revelation that top Diggers are routinely offered payment by companies hoping to get their story onto Diggs front page, is it time for the social news site to start compensating its top users? [poll=4] Cartoon by Oliver WidderReleased under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 License

Tags: Digger, Social News Sites

Blog posts 2006-12-09

If Kevin Rose won't pay Diggers, someone else will

According to Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests, top Diggers are routinely approached by PR types to help promote the companies they represent. As many of you will remember, Jason Calacanis first proposed paying the top users of social bookmarking sites when he started his notorious Netscape experiment. Digg founder...

Tags: Digger, Social News Sites

Blog posts 2006-12-08

Should Yahoo kill the Flickr and Delicious brands?

One of the points made in Brad Garlinghouses so-called Peanut Butter Manifesto is that Yahoo is spreading itself too thin, with a number of competing and overlapping products. The problem of course has been exacerbated by acquisitions, where the company has sought to buy the best of breed web 2.0...

Tags: Social News Sites, Social Networks, Yahoo

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Calacanis quits AOL, leaving Netscape's navigators rudderless

Following the sacking of his mentor AOL CEO Jonathan Miller earlier this week, its been confirmed that Jason Calacanis has decided to quit AOL. Calacanis is quoted in the New York Times as saying: "I’m not inclined to start over with a new guy". That new guy being Randy Falco,...

Tags: Calacanis, America Online Inc., Netscape Communications Corp.

Blog posts 2006-11-17