Archive for the “Digg” category

What Drives More Traffic Than Getting Digged, Reddited, Delicious’d, or StumbledUpon?

by Tony Hung on July 16, 2008

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 (…)

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Newsflash! Digg FrontPage Still Dominated By Small Group of Diggers!

by Tony Hung on July 6, 2008

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. (…)

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Review: DropBox — An Awesomely Simple And Elegant Online Storage Solution

by Tony Hung on March 11, 2008

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 (…)

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* Will Diggers Leave If Digg Is Acquired By Microsoft?

by Tony Hung on March 7, 2008

… 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 (…)

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For The Love Of Digg, We Have To Save Chris Avenir!

by Tony Hung on March 7, 2008

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 (…)

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Digg Town Hall: Spam Catching, Exit Strategies, Focus Groups, And Pimping (Digg’s Features)

by Tony Hung on February 26, 2008

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 (…)

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* Low Engagement, Flattening Traffic, Gets Rewarded At Digg-Clone, Mixx

by Tony Hung on February 25, 2008

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 (…)

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