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Top Digger helps launch Tip'd, a Digg clone for financial news

Tip'd, which launched today, describes itself as "a place for investors... to meet, share, discuss, comment, and vote on what's happening on both Wall Street and Main Street." Essentially, it's another Digg clone targeting a particular vertical. In this case, financial news. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Digg, Financial, Social Media, Site, Tip'd, Financial Accounting, Finance, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?

Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?diggable ads?Great article, Digg is a great site, it provides article people will find relevant and or interesting. I do question if the diggable ads will bring in more users and revenue.RE: Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?fake rolex watch ...

Tags: Digg, advertisement, Kevin Rose

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?

Digg faces two big challenges going forward. How to expand its user-base and therefore content beyond its geeky roots, and in turn, how to increase ad revenue. Addressing the latter, co-founder Kevin Rose says the social news site is exploring "Diggable ads". by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Digg, Advertisement, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Yahoo Buzz! opens up, let the gaming begin

Buzz, Yahoo's social news site and "meme tracker", has opened its submission process so that any site on the Web can now be 'buzzed'. Prior to today, only select publishers were allowed into the program, with around 400 sites vying for the top prize of being featured on the Yahoo.com...

Tags: Digg, Yahoo! Inc., Games, Personal Technology, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-08-19

The Digg toolbar for Firefox 3

The Digg toolbar for Firefox 3Digg toolbar for FirefoxCan someone explain WHY it is of any importance or interest to me what a bunch of nameless, faceless Internet surfers find worth clicking on?And further, why that is worthy of interrupting what I am doing at the time?And what is great...

Tags: Web browsers, Digg, toolbar, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

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

Digg Toolbar (xpi)

The Digg Toolbar for Firefox lets you Digg, submit content, and keep track of Digg even when you're not on the Digg site itself. With a notification window built into the toolbar, you'll never miss a popular story or when friends Digg, submit, or comment on stories. This version is...

Tags: digg, toolbar

Software downloads 2008-08-07

Google Digg = ?

Google Digg = ?My suggestionGoogligg!! Isn't it obvious?Well, you can stick "Micro" on the front of about anything, but, Googlejust does not work so well. Just like YouTube, Google will leave the Digg name intact and keep it separate, and only look for innovative ways to incorporate advertising."Gigglywankers"Digg...

Tags: Digg, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Google + Digg = ?

There's a persistent rumor that crops up every few months about social news site Digg being acquired by ____ insert company here. The latest, citing "multiple sources inside and outside Google", says that Google will buy Digg for $200M. This is similar to a rumor in March that Digg was...

Tags: Google Inc., Digg, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Digg's new "recommendation engine" could be a boon to advertisers

Digg's new "recommendation engine" could be a boon to advertisersRightAnything to make a buck. Sounds like yet another gimmick to me.JThttp://www.FireMe.To/udi

Tags: recommendation engine, Digg

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Digg's new "recommendation engine" could be a boon to advertisers

After what seemed like endless hints and pre-announcements, social news site Digg will finally start rolling out its "Recommendation Engine" this week. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Digg, Advertiser, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Cool Tools Friday - ShareThis Adds Digg Tracking

Cool Tools Friday - ShareThis Adds Digg TrackingJust like ShareaholicThanks for the tip about the ShareThis upgrade. The Shareaholic add-on for Firefox has had this for some time, but I prefer ShareThis, both on my site and in my toolbar. Now if I could only get my company...

Tags: ShareThis, Digg

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

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

Reddit: open source not special sauce

Social news site reddit today announced that it is open-sourcing the majority of the site's code, including parts of the algorithm that determines what stories hit the front page. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Digg, Reddit, Site, Open Source, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Flock adds support for Digg, Pownce and AOL Webmail

Flock on Monday said that it has added support for Digg, Pownce and AOL Webmail in the latest version of its social networking browser. The Flock 1.2 browser, which navigates a bevy of Web services, is available for downloading. Flock has a cult following--3.5 million downloads with...

Tags: Digg, America Online Inc., Web Browser, AOL Webmail, Web Browsers, E-mail Providers, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Latest Flock Beta delivers Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail support

Having launched in late 2005 amidst a tsunami of web 2.0 hype, it was always going to be difficult for social web browser Flock to keep up with expectations. But after getting through what seemed like an unhealthy period of stagnation, update by update the software is really starting to...

Tags: Digg, America Online Inc., Twitter, E-mail, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Internet, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-14

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

Who should buy Digg? Nobody, says community

Who should buy Digg? Nobody, says communitywonder if once they sell it.. if someone will sue them.Seems the logical choice.. hey they have money.. lets sue them.Course if the users revolt again, you could have people stop using it.They have to be very careful with how they handle this. Me...

Tags: Digg

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

Digg: Better off with Microsoft or Google?

Digg: Better off with Microsoft or Google?Who cares?Now that it got transformed into a video/picture/politics site and has left its roots as a tech organization, let MySpace have it.I speak somewhat tongue in cheek. Digg has gone down hill and the signal to noise ratio isn't worth measuring any...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Digg, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

Who should buy Digg? Nobody, says community

Digg is reportedly up for sale, with Microsoft, Google and two unnamed media companies putting the social news site through due diligence. The price tag being somewhere in the 200+ million ball park, offering co-founders Rose and Adelson the exit strategy many suspect they've craved for months. ...

Tags: Digg, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-03-07