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 Ajax-y kind of wrapper around it, and there’s a way to sort out stories that are [...]
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 of Diggers) over here; its been in response to the drama that has surrounded the [...]
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 all that closely these days. But I did more than a year ago … writing [...]
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 have to admit that I don’t follow Digg and its clones other social news brethren all [...]
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 say about this story around Digg / Mixx, except that as a community grows in size, [...]
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 — but it *felt* like a dozen times. Yes, its going to make a good fit for [...]
