WTF?!? Technorati Clones Digg.com?
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Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion stumbled across Technorati WTF (currently down), which lists the most popular blog stories of the day in a Digg or Techmeme type hieracral system.  It&#8217;s nice to see more niche search engines using the Digg model for gauging popularity via user voting, and this form of social media is slowly growing [...]
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Todd Malicoat has jotted down his thoughts on why Digg is the new Google and why Digg is attracting the &#8216;geek mindshare&#8217; that Google did so well pre-2001, when it went beyond grassroots marketing and was slingshot by the great Yahoo! partnership which won over the commonfolk. * They just need an index - Y and [...]
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They&#8217;re an opinion piece from the Marc and Angel Blog which compares Yahoo &#038; Google and appears to be making it to the Digg homepage quite shortly. Google handles all of my daily web searching, email, chat, RSS feeds, blog monetization, etc. In my opinion, it blows Yahoo (and most other Internet companies) clear out of [...]
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I'm going to tell you about one of the biggest trolls of 2007. Now, I'm not talking about someone schooling HuSi or Slashdot. &nbsp; I'm not talking about someone rickrocking the comment boards at Newgrounds. I'm going to tell you about a troll of international scope. &nbsp;
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We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.  Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms for feeds that you might like, based on what you and others like, there would only be a future for SYO if it were a thriving and growing community, and it isn't.  Normally, I'd leave a site like that running indefinitely, but this one needed its own server, and I wanted to cut my server expenses now that my S3 bill is going up, serving some very big JPEGs and generally being the back-end for a community that is growing, the people using FlickrFan. If there's a big demand to bring it back, we can -- but that's going to require cash flow to go with it. At this point, I don't think it's a good investment for me. Still diggin!
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This is a bit disturbing:  "If your blog software does not support those things, don't worry, you can still play. To add your post to a Technorati Tag page, all you have to do is "tag" your post by including a special link. Like so:"  {{{ tagname }}}  There are a number of things wrong with this proposal:  1. They're encouraging people to always include the technorati.com URL within their specification.  While this is great for *Technorati* (and I love those guys and wish them all the best) its just going to increase their pagerank and act as free advertising.  If Microsoft were doing this would we really put up with it?  I don't th ...
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Do you believe that? I was working on a longer article about the Digg.com bans, because ReveNews.com, a blogger News site with over 20 Bloggers was banned from digg.com because of one authors action. Multiple attempts were made to get the site unbanned without success. I needed a screenshot that shows the message that the URL [...]
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I love Twitter, but there have been a lot of problems, and this is too much. They're taking it down tonight, for two hours, and we're hot on a big story, and it's developing -- on Twitter. This seems like a bad night for Twitter to go to sleep. (But there probably never is a good night.) I don't think the Twitter guys really understand how much we're doing with their service.  It's been going down a lot lately. And while other people have been complaining about it losing posts, I had never seen it lose one, until yesterday, and now it's losing them regularly, for me too. Read the first three words of this post again.  They raised $5 million, it seems now it's time for them to get the bugs out, hire some people who really understand scaling, if necessary re-implement the system from the ground up. Do whatever is needed to make it as reliable as the other tools we depend on. We need Twitter to work. It's not a fun experiment for us, we're using it.  Jack, Ev, Biz, Fred -- please take note. Postscript: The announcement changed, now they're saying it'll be down on Sunday night. Much better. Thanks!
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It seems like you are using an outdated browser. The online version of the daily uses standards-compliant code which might not be supported by your urrent browser.
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Here's the new Reddit for Scripting News... http://reddit.com/r/scripting/  Please, if you're a regular reader of this site, bookmark it, and when you want to contribute a link to the community, add it there. Do the normal thing you do with Reddit or Digg, move articles up or down, according to your opinion of how relevant they are to the community defined by this weblog.  Warning: I will moderate, heavily if necessary, to keep it from being abusive or overly immature. Sorry for having to post the caveat, but you know how it goes.
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I&#8217;m playing the devil&#8217;s advocate here, so keep that in mind in case I end up trampling all over anything you hold dear :) Google has taken a lot of flak on a lot of issues in the past few years - it&#8217;s a price an industry leader invariably has to pay.  Apart from Blogger spam [...]