Category Archives: Social Bookmarking

Google Shares: Its “Meh”, But That’s Ok. Here’s Why.

You may have heard that Google is launching a social bookmarking-type service today, called Google Shares. Loads of coverage from the usual suspects, most of whom aren’t all that impressed, as its a pretty unsophisticated service that “even” allows you to bookmark *other* socially driven sites like Del.icio.us amongst other sites.
What’s the bloody point [...]

Techmeme Rocks My Socks! (”pleasegetintotechmeme, pleasegetintotechmeme, pleasegetintotechmeme”)

Some thoughts about Techmeme — how to get listed, what it means, and how it compares to Digg.

Citizendium: An Evolution in Social Networking?

Citizendium may be a response to the darker side web2.0 — here’s how.;

The Chickens Have Come Home to Mooch — I Mean, Roost! … for MySpace, YouTube

YouTube and MySpace are in for a world of litigious hurt as Universal gears up its lawyering machine

Digg Controversy Just Won’t Die — Attracts Attention of USA Today

The CircleDigg Controversy doesn’t seem to end — in terms of its coverage; here’s why.

Digg Controversy Explodes

Well, I was going to do about how now is the best time for getting into GTD (watch for it … its still coming) — but the whole Digg controversy thing isn’t going away, so I’m going to stay with it until it does.
Having woke up this morning, there has been an utter explosion of [...]

Digg History Update 2: KRo Says “Its Ok To Digg Each Other … Sort Of”

Digg History has yet been updated again.
Here is the text that has been addended to A brief history of digg controversy:
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Circle-Digging: Elite Diggers Controlling Frontpage
September 2006. Jesusphreak posts an article questioning how democratic the digging processes is when he notices that a significant proportion of the frontpage articles are submitted, then dugg by elite, [...]