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Rumor: Four Companies Vie for Digg

Written on: March 7th 2008
Author: Editor

ADOTAS — Digg this: TechCrunch is reporting that four companies are duking it out over the content-sharing site. Microsoft Inc., Google Inc., and two unidentified media companies are in the ring and rumor has it – a sale may happen shortly. Of course rumors of Digg’s sale have been floated before [...] more...

AOL Giving Up “Mini-Me” Digg?

Written on: August 13th 2007
Author: Editor

Digg may have seen better days in the wake of rumors originally put out by TechCrunch, that said the subsidiary of AOL will potentially be shut down. AOL has not released any new plans for the site which is just over a year old. The social new site was launched at [...] more...

Identifying Social News Clustering

Written on: September 8th 2006
Author: Kenneth Musante

There’s an interesting phenomenon happening on Digg, the ever-growing social news site. It’s something that appears to be part of a natural progression of the site’s open-ended and democratic editing procedure. The site functions as it always has: users submit links to news stories, and vote to determine which links get [...] more...

Several Netscape Users Not “Digg-ing” New Style

Written on: July 17th 2006
Author: Editor

As we reported back on June 15th, Netscape underwent a makeover to include community-driven news in the style of Digg.com in an attempt to lure visitors to its lagging site. But according to a NY Times article released today, the new site was formally introduced on June 29th and Netscape [...] more...

Digg-ing for the Mainstream: Digg Founder Kevin Rose Takes a Big Leap from Tech-Land

Written on: July 7th 2006
Author: Kenneth Musante

On June 22nd, at the trendy Anu bar in San Francisco, digg.com founder and architect Kevin Rose revealed digg version 3. I’ve been a digg user for about a year now, and I know a lot of you out there aren’t. So to give you a little background, digg is [...] more...

Digg Marketing?

Written on: January 30th 2006
Author: Kenneth Musante

It’s at least worth as much of a gander as social networking outlet del.icio.us. Digg is a social link-sharing site where users submit links to tech news, blog posts, deals, and other general bits of geekiness to a queue. Other users then vote (or “Digg”) links they like. When a [...] more...

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