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The future is looking bright at Digg, or at least that's what cofounder and CEO Jay Adelson is claiming. The social news aggregator has been trying a lot of things lately to spur growth and, more importantly, revenue and it's clear that at least some of them are working; the CEO especially notes Digg Ads. ... |
18 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Digg was one of the most promising sites for news and content discovery thanks to its speed and the fact that it relied on its users to weed out the garbage. But, then, Twitter came along and, all of a sudden, Digg looked like a slumbering dinosaur where things could take days before they reached the main page. Since... |
5 November 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Earlier in the year Digg founder Kevin Rose launched a pet project dubbed WeFollow, a user-generated Twitter directory of sorts that gained quite a bit of popularity since then even though traffic numbers have dropped off recently. Initially the project was completely unrelated to Digg but it now seems that the site ... |
16 October 2009
09:16 GMT |
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Broadband speeds are always increasing, computing power is increasing and bandwidth costs are falling so it would seem that developers can afford to skimp a little on the speed and optimization of their sites in favor of more features. But practice proves that users are as concerned as ever about speed and developers... |
9 October 2009
11:41 GMT |
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Digg has been on a quest to generate more revenue lately and has been putting a lot of effort into getting advertisers more involved with the site. The interesting part is that it's not content with just plastering ads all over the place and calling it a day; the social news aggregator has been testing several a... |
9 October 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Digg has announced it has made some changes to the external links on the site, which, while mostly transparent to the average user, should really interest those in the SEO business, but may also eventually translate into a better experience for the users. After a lengthy debate going back at least to 2007, Digg has d... |
3 September 2009
06:57 GMT |
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It looks like Digg may be getting what it seems to want the most as the site has seen a strong growth in audience in the past several months, adding 5 million unique visitors in just four months. Spurred by some of the sometimes not so popular changes, the numbers keep on rising, which can only be a good thing for a ... |
10 August 2009
04:20 GMT |
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Digg may be working hard on securing new revenue streams, with the recent Digg Ads for example, but this doesn't fix the bigger problem the social link aggregator is facing, namely that its core business is being replaced by other services, meaning Twitter, with which it can't compete directly without radic... |
7 August 2009
08:43 GMT |
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Two months ago social link sharing aggregator Digg announced an interesting and potentially risky move with a new type of ads that would show up in the regular stream and – the best part – which users will get to “digg” or “bury” depending on how good they are. Called Digg Ads, the... |
7 August 2009
05:31 GMT |
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A couple of days ago Digg decided to shoot itself in the foot, again, by changing how the already controversial Diggbar worked. The service, first introduced as a URL shortener, now redirected users to a Digg page rather than to the underlying link it was originally meant to. The behavior also changed for all of the ... |
22 July 2009
04:51 GMT |
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URL shorteners are a very popular business right now, with everyone from unknown startups to established web companies launching their own services. Some are better than others but overall they have pretty much the same functionality. Digg, the popular social link aggregator, has launched its own service, Diggbar, in... |
20 July 2009
02:50 GMT |
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With the recent “browser wars” pushing the market forward after many years of stagnation, the once ubiquitous Internet Explorer 6 has seen a steady decline in users falling under the 10 percent mark in some cases. Sparked by increased competition, especially from Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft launched... |
11 July 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Bit.ly, the popular URL shortening service, has been working on a new product to expand its offerings. Codenamed Bit.ly Now, the new service will aggregate the most popular links used by the system at any given time and provide a way of visualizing and ranking their progress. If it is confirmed, as reported by TechCr... |
1 July 2009
09:12 GMT |
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Digg, the social news aggregator site, has launched an updated feature to prevent duplicate entries from being submitted. Called Dupe Detection, the system brings some new detection methods that should make it harder to find the same story twice. Previously it would only block submissions that used the same URL withi... |
1 July 2009
02:51 GMT |
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Digg, the popular social news aggregator, has recently removed its Shout feature, the only internal sharing tool, in favor of using Twitter and Facebook for recommendations. The company, and many of its users, believed the tool hadn't reached its intended purpose of sharing content between the latter, as it was ... |
22 June 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Social news aggregator Digg has been trying to regain some of its lost popularity by making some big changes to its site. Whether those changes will turn the tide for the company remains to be seen but in the meantime a new service called Sub.DiggerPlus aims to greatly improve the user experience for Digg users. Su... |
17 June 2009
10:13 GMT |
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One aspect of the evolution from Internet Explorer 7 to Internet Explorer 8 is the introduction of accelerators. Designed to streamline mundane and repetitive actions performed via the browser, accelerators are an integral part of IE8, kicking functionality up a notch. The successor of IE7 does ship with a range of a... |
17 June 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Digg, the popular news and link sharing site, has had a troubled history when it comes to user popularity or generating revenue. As such, it is trying to fix some of the things users have been complaining about, hoping to get them to return and, in this context, it has announced a new ad platform it has created, call... |
4 June 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Digg, the popular link sharing site, recently removed its controversial “Shout.” The feature allowed users to share stories with one another and was Digg's only internal communication tool. Now, a year and a half later, shouts are gone, being replaced with the option to share the story on Facebo... |
28 May 2009
11:01 GMT |
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In a piece of news that might or might not be Digg-worthy, the mobile version of the popular social networking website has gone through a reconditioning process and is now said to be better than ever. Which means that you can digg and/or bury articles from your handset more efficiently (if there's any efficiency... |
2 August 2008
08:32 GMT |
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Facebook has millions of users, the company's representatives even estimating that approximately 250,000 new accounts are created every day. Because of that, the website is somehow forced to improve its functions periodically, in order to satisfy the majority of members and bring them the features they need. Tha... |
16 April 2008
10:23 GMT |
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An interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose has revealed that Apple's iPhone is in for an overhaul within a few months, and he's not just talking about 3G. According to the man, Apple will implement video chat capabilities into the handset as well.As everyone owning an iPhone knows, Apple's smartphone sp... |
24 March 2008
15:47 GMT |
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Digg is shopping itself around, and a purchase is really likely to happen any time soon, according to Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch. The user-generated news site has been working with investment bank Allen & Co., that I last mentioned was the one behind Bebo being sold.An inside voice quoted by Arrington said that... |
7 March 2008
06:40 GMT |
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Social bookmarking services allows any webmaster to promote websites and increase the natural web traffic. Based on the principles that bookmarks are public, the websites URLs published as social bookmarks represent one way links that have the role to increase the website transparency both to search engines spiders ... |
26 February 2008
13:25 GMT |
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The news service and site from Ask.com has a pretty original approach to the old-time, old-school, traditional maybe, view of news. It has something out of Google News, but it also has a Digg spin, with people being able to vote the stories they like most and propel them higher in the rankings.BigFactor is what the c... |
7 February 2008
04:59 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, I told you that you could enlist for a number of experiments that Google is running through its Experimental division and, at that moment, I had you concentrating on the auto-complete options that would offer you possible search queries, based on what you had typed that far. Another option is cu... |
29 November 2007
03:42 GMT |
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Digg is surely one of the top web technologies nowadays since it records impressive amounts of traffic every day. In case you never heard of it although I think it's impossible unless you were born yesterday, Digg is a news website based entirely on the content submitted by the registered members who post articl... |
21 September 2007
15:36 GMT |
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Metacafe, the online video sharing service which has always stood in the shadow of YouTube, is now trying a new move to get closer to its rivals. Metacafe has just signed a deal with Digg, allowing the users to quickly digg a certain video published on the service. All you have to do is to press the 'digg it... |
29 August 2007
16:26 GMT |
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The folks working at the YouTubeplex just launched a new comment system for the online video sharing platform, allowing the consumers to use a Digg-style technology. If you've never heard of Digg, it is a community-based webpage that provides one click access to news from all sorts of domains including technolog... |
24 August 2007
03:26 GMT |
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In a move similar to the advertising agreement between Microsoft and Facebook, Digg announced that it has signed the Redmond company as its new ad provider. Both Microsoft and Digg will debut the execution of the advertising syndication agreement in the coming weeks. The partnership is designed to serve ads to Digg&#... |
26 July 2007
02:41 GMT |
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The famous Digg website received a brand new version that allows the lucky owners of the Apple iPhone to access the latest posts in a matter of seconds. Since iPhone was released, the gadget revolutionized the world because numerous developers and site owners tried to adapt their products to the Apple tool in order t... |
11 July 2007
05:05 GMT |
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Although it might sound a little bit shocking, it can be true: Digg blocks certain stories from reaching the homepage straight from their servers. The reason? Unknown. But the guys from Pronet Advertising tried to show us that a certain story cannot be published on the first page because it is buried from the Digg se... |
16 May 2007
14:41 GMT |
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