Digg Fights Top Users For Control
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The social news site is mulling changes to the way the stories on its front door are promoted and ranked in response to charges of abuse, a move that may cost it its most loyal and enthusiastic contributors.
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A Web site that ranks and displays news, blog and other items based on recommendations from its visitors has responded to efforts to manipulate the rankings by dropping its list of most active users.
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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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US website Monster.com suffers an online attack with the data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen.
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Eric Bauman made big bucks posting other people's gross-out videos to his website. Now the geeks whose clips he swiped on the way up are trying to knock him down. By David Kushner from Wired magazine.
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Digg.com revamped its home page to the consternation of some of its notoriously volatile user base.
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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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&#160;China watchers, get your scorecards out: Google&#39;s YouTube is blocked,&#160;Wikipedia is still blocked, but, for the moment, Google blog site Blogspot.com is available and some pictures from Yahoo&#39;s Flickr photos can once again be viewed.
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A plan to help overburdened patent examiners solicits online advice from outside sources (read: you), calling on Slashdot's founder for a system to rank user comments. Plus: China blocks LiveJournal. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Prized by journalists, researchers and law enforcement officials as a reliable resource for tracking down website owners, it is criticized by privacy advocates for the same reason. A proposal in front of ICANN would essentially scuttle the ship.
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Some members discover itâs tough to erase all their information from the site.
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Someone could make the argument that watchdogs have better things to do. But click fraud -- endlessly clicking on ads to generate cash or hurt a competitor -- is a serious threat to the web business, and no one's doing much about it. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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When the social discovery site turns members' most trivial actions into unfolding "News Feeds," users rebel, and the company races to quiet their anger. Both sides learn a hard lesson about the illusory nature of online privacy. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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Search Mob : Digging for Search Engine News So, if Search Mob is to be the Digg of search engine news, who&#8217;s going to be the MySpace or YouTube of such? Beats me, but in the meantime there are three Search Engine Digg clones on the market, the latest launched by John Battelle. The others are Search [...]
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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With the New York Times picking up the recent story of the (mostly minor) anti Adblock Plus protest, its worth looking into the subject, and seeing just where a webmaster/adblock developer arms race could take us.
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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 [...]