From the “oh yeah — its that important” department”, Om “GigaOm” Malik reports how beneficial being “buzzed” has been for GigaOm.com. And of course he’s referring to Yahoo Buzz, which is a social news type of site that was launched some months ago. Its funny how some news gets lost in the wake of other [...]
There are a few (tech) blogging topics that are eternal. Comments vs. no comment. A-listers vs. non-A-listers. Techmeme sucks vs. Techmeme is still teh hot. Also, for those in social media: Digg is pwned by a small number of diggers.
Yes, in a bit of unverified research that would have fit in the tech scene [...]
So, this is a quick review, mostly because DropBox is getting Digged, TechCrunched and Redditted all at the same time — and I’m finally allowed to blog about it, as they’ve dropped their request they bloggers not do so. I’ve been in the private beta for almost two months now, and DropBox is pretty [...]
… and what about Google? I think there’s one intangible that not enough people are yammering about with respect to new rumours that Digg maybe bought out — and that is, what happens to the community? These are either geeks are geek wannabe’s that make up the Community at large (large “c”), irrespective of how [...]
Ok, so it need not be Digg, but really, all of the online social communities need to rally behind this poor guy, Chris Avenir, who is at a local Toronto university. The poor guy is facing expulsion and has already gotten a B grade turned into a failing grade in a first year chemistry [...]
So I had a chance to listen in on the Digg Town Hall today, which wasn’t quite the format I was expecting, as they fielded 20 questions that were sent to them (ordered by Diggs, naturally), rather than answer live question from the (virtual floor).
Nevertheless, what I got out of it was a few things:
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Would you be surprised if a Digg clone got millions of dollars to clone … well, Digg? I know I would. Fine, there are some finer features that distinguish it from the king of the social news mountain, but surely anyone with a modicum of common sense can see that no other new [...]
