Digg turns its social networking up a few notches
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The social news site begins rolling out a number of significant changes that allow members to further customize their profiles...and the Digg experience.
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Bill Thompson loooks at how the social web is transforming friendships and the way we view the world.
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New social networking site lets users share photos, videos, and more.
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The New York Times has integrated Social News and Media sharing by adding &#8220;Digg This&#8221;, Facebook, and Newsvine (big props for Newsvine here) sharing buttons on their news stories. From Natali Del Conte at TechCrunch: &#8220;Although you could always manually add The Times stories to news sharing sites such as Digg and Newsvine before, the capability to [...]
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Flagging social network introduces new way for bands, celebrities, organizations to create profiles on the site. Unfortunately, it probably won't ameliorate its problems.
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The Valley veteran talks to CNET News.com and says that plenty of cool stuff is on the way through CBSNews.com's partnership with the social news site. By the way, he's not buying Digg anytime soon.
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Thanks to a clean, easy-to-use interface, a brand-new social networking site may edge out its competitors. Invite your friends to Thanksgiving dinner the easy way. In Monkey Bites.
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Research reveals which social network site is capturing the hearts and clicks of Britons.
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Google automatically expands the list of friends that users of Google Reader share some blog posts with, and some users donât like it one bit.
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The 'true hacker!' blog has a new post today that gives you a quick four step process for creating some clean, Digg-style URLs for your site with some simple Apache configuration changes (mod_rewrite).   You might have noticed that Digg has a cool way of maintaining clean URLs. Digg actually uses LAMP - Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP. But where are the .php extensions? The answer is here. 4 steps to implement your own Digg style clean URLs.   His method turns on Apache's rewrite engine (you do have mod_rewrite enabled, don't you?) and adds a rule to push all of the requests to two default PHP files. There's also a ForceType method that can be used to achieve the same effect. One .htaccess file later, you're in business and the PHP script only needs to access the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] value to get the parameters.
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Facebook.com, the No. 2 U.S.   social network site that is quickly expanding beyond its   college student base, has been met with a sudden privacy   backlash by users after it made design changes this week.
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(InfoWorld) - Slashdot.org plans to release on Thursday a new feature designed to give more participation in the selection of articles to its users, who submit links to stories and comments about them to the site. Called Firehose, the new interface lets readers see, for the first time, all the news articles that flow into Slashdot for evaluation by the site's editors. Additionally, readers will be able to vote on whether specific articles should or shouldn't be featured on the site. "Before, if we chose not to post something, it was gone, and no one else saw it again," said Patrick McGarry, Slashdot project manager. Firehose will contain stories submitted for consideration by readers, as well as the content of automatic feeds. Readers will be able to tweak their Firehose view by filtering the contents using different parameters, and may opt to use Firehose as their main Slashdot interface. They will also be able to share their Firehose views with other users. However, despite the increased participation for readers, Slashdot editors will still have the last word on which stories are featured on the site's home page, McGarry said. "Anything going to the front page has to be vetted by an editor," he said. Anyone will be able to see the Firehose repository of submitted articles, but in order to vote on stories, users have to register with Slashdot. Registration is free. With these changes, Slashdot, which is part of OSTG Inc., is catching up to so-called "social news" features that have made sites like Digg Inc.'s Digg.com extremely popular. Digg has increased its popularity significantly in the past year, according to Web measurement statistics from Hitwise Pty. Ltd. For the week ending Feb. 24, Digg ranked first in Hitwise's IT News and Media category with 10.8 percent of visits to sites in this category, while Slashdot grabbed 22nd place with 0.75 percent. A year earlier, in the week ending Feb. 25, 2006, Digg ranked in sixth place with almost 4 percent of visits, while Slashdot had the 11th spot with 1.33 percent. Others that have seen Digg take market share away are PC World and Cnet, which ranked first and second, respectively, in this category, in the week ending Feb. 25, 2006. That week, PC World had 9.5 percent of visits, and in the comparable week this year it had fallen to third place with 6.7 percent. Cnet had 9.28 percent and kept its second place in the comparable week this year, albeit with a smaller 6.8 percent share. (PC World is owned by IDG, the parent company of IDG News Service.)
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I recently interviewed StumbleUpon&#8217;s CEO Garrett Camp and wrote StumbleUpon Defined vs. Digg, Google, MySpace and More to define SU for curious marketers. I&#8217;ve extended my research to include current blog thought related to marketing in SU, added my own meager experience and chopped up Camp&#8217;s suggestions for marketers to bake up this scrumptious guide to [...]
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There is no question that the popular social networking site is taking over all aspects of our lives. As this new era dawns, it is important to keep in mind certain principles of etiquette. Firstly, Poke with caution and moderation.
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I&#8217;ve heard the warnings at conferences and especially in the Social Media Optimization field that spamming or multiple submissions to Digg and other social news sites could lead to the banning of that URL from future Digg listings. Seems that such a horrible fate was brought about on SearchBliss.com although they say that they were not [...]
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A new design and a number of under-the-hood improvements move the site away from the niche blog market and into the wider world of online searching.
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Social networking sites are called 'better than print' for recruiting IT staff.