Archive for the “Digg” category
Have We Reached The Pinnacle Of Social News?
by Tony Hung on February 22, 2008
So I loves my news aggregators, and I loves my social news sites. You may have also heard of a new breed of such sites, which aggregate shared bookmarks via Google Reader (and more), such as readburner, linkriver, and rssmeme. (…)
Newspond: Saccharine, Misbegotten Child Of Digg And Techmeme?
by Tony Hung on February 20, 2008
Contrary to what some believe, Newspond, the latest entry into the news aggregator scene, isn’t really teh awesome. Here’s the two second run down: it aggregators news, like Techmeme. It allows you to comment, like Digg. Sure, there’s a fancy (…)
Would Digg Be Substantially Different Without The Digg Elite?
by Tony Hung on January 26, 2008
Well, now you can answer that for yourselves, thanks to some creative piping at Yahoo Pipes. There’s a mashup that alleges to remove some of the front page results of the Digging Elite (or Top Diggers, or Top X number (…)
Newsflash: People Are Using IM’s To Game Digg! (Wait — Is This 2006?)
by Tony Hung on December 18, 2007
Dave Cohn of NewsAssignment.net, Propeller Scout, sometime-contributor to Wired, AKA “DigiDave”, and all around Social News Dude has written an interesting post about Digg today, with respect to people gaming Digg. I have to admit I don’t really follow Digg (…)
Propeller A Good Second Fiddle To Digg?
by Tony Hung on November 25, 2007
Allen Stern at CenterNetworks queries how good Propeller (previously “Netscape.com”) is and will be, and crunches some publicly available traffic data to suggest, perhaps, in time it will be a legitimate #2 to Digg as the social news king. I (…)
The Power Of Techmeme Over Bloggers is … Pretty Astounding.
by Tony Hung on November 24, 2007
In what must be the softest headlining story of the month, Mike Arrington’s story of how Digg users are having a look at a Digg clone called Mixx has made it to the top of Techmeme. I have nothing to (…)
Digg Cashing Out? Yawn.
by Tony Hung on November 8, 2007
What’s that? New rumours of Digg being sold? Pardon my giant yawn. Jeez, over the course of the year there’s been about 9-12 different times that I read Digg was going that direction. Whoops — that’s probably only three — (…)