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It's official, the Washington Post is "buying" Digg's engineering team. In total, 15 Digg engineers will join the paper's SocialCode, a subsidiary that handles social ad buys, on Facebook and Twitter. Apparently, that's only half the story, rumors say, as the site and the technology are about to b... |
10 May 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Web video is here to stay and it may one day replace TV as we know it, as YouTube would have you believe. But, in the meantime, it's the TV people who have all the money, save for YouTube, and they're putting some to good use, like Discovery Communications buying Revision3.
Revision3 is seven years old now... |
4 May 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Digg seems to be pretty much done for. The site isn't shutting down just yet, but rumors say that its tech team has been "acquired" by the Washington Post where they'll be working on the newspaper's digital efforts. The Washington Post has been doing some interesting things with Facebook integration, a... |
1 May 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Kevin Rose, cofounder of Digg and more recently creator of Oink, an app that was shut down five months after being launched, is said to have been hired by Google. Apparently, his new startup, Milk, was bought by Google altogether everyone there got a job at the Mountain View giant.
There's no official confirmat... |
16 March 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Digg isn't dead yet, at least, that what the company is saying. Not only that, it's seeing a second youth of sorts. Testament to the power of the new Facebook Open Graph perhaps, Digg saw a 35 percent increase in traffic in the last month, after implementing the Digg Social Reader, a Timeline app."January w... |
26 February 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Just last summer, Reddit proudly announced some rather impressive numbers, it had 1.2 billion page views in a month. That was quite a big change for the service which had been struggling until less than a couple of years ago, despite the core loyal following.
A few months later and Reddit is seeing 1.8 billion page... |
31 October 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Digg has fallen on bad times following last year's ill received update, but is now launching an interesting new tool which could turn things around, if only because it's the only tool of its kind.Digg Newswire is a new real-time feed which enables users to view the very latest Digg submissions as well as th... |
9 August 2011
07:11 GMT |
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While Reddit's fortunes grow, with the occasional hiccup, Digg is not doing very well. The much hyped redesign failed and it's been loosing users ever since it was introduced. Now its losing one of its cofounders as well as Kevin Rose announced that he will be quitting Digg and is already working on a new s... |
19 March 2011
15:40 GMT |
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Reddit has been riding a wave of popularity for the past year and especially in the last few months. Digg v4's complete failure is to blame, but it's more than that, Reddit must be doing something right since it's just announced that it has passed the 1 billion pageviews mark. Very uncommon for large w... |
3 February 2011
03:53 GMT |
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Reddit has had a great year, that much seemed obvious as the site popped up all over the place and more often in recent months. But the site is providing the stats to back this up, page views more than tripled in 2010, this while people spent more time on the site.Reddit got about 250 million page views in January 20... |
4 January 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Digg's new CEO Matt Williams certainly doesn't have the easiest job in the world. Coming in just as Digg was dealing with a pretty much failed revamp, his job seems to be cleaning up the mess he didn't make. One of the first big moves since taking over the company is laying off 25 employees, or about 3... |
26 October 2010
04:50 GMT |
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By now, it's no secret that the Digg v4 redesign was a flop. The new site launched to much fanfare and after significant delays, but didn't go well with Digg users, especially the most rabid fans. Digg has been struggling to cope with the criticism and has implemented several changes to appease the users. N... |
13 October 2010
11:34 GMT |
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Digg's big relaunch proved to be a big flop. The site has been trying to stay relevant in a world where people get their news from Twitter and even Facebook. Digg v4 introduced a number of features that were supposed to make it competitive but ended up alienating its core audience. According to analytics company... |
24 September 2010
10:49 GMT |
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A very short while ago, Digg promised two things, a new website and a new CEO. And now, the company has delivered on both, Digg has hired former Amazon exec Matt Williams to lead the company as cofounder Kevin Rose, who has been interim CEO, will now focus on the technical aspects."After several months of searching, ... |
1 September 2010
09:00 GMT |
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Digg hasn't been having a great week and, despite changes, things don't seem to be settling down. Reddit on the other hand, and expectantly perhaps, couldn't be better.The recent Digg revolt, which pushed Reddit stories to take over the Digg homepage, led to a surge in traffic for the smaller site, tho... |
1 September 2010
05:39 GMT |
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If there were any doubts that Digg users really don't like the new site, or rather, that they really, really hate it, you just have to look at the current Digg homepage to know.11 out of the top 16 stories on the Digg Top News section are from Reddit and one of the others is a sponsored entry. The top story on D... |
30 August 2010
11:11 GMT |
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The revamped Digg that's been in the works for many, many months is now live for everybody. There are plenty of changes, a new emphasis on social as well as a more personal experience. The changes are intended to make the site more relevant to users today many of which turn to Twitter or Facebook for their news ... |
26 August 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Digg has been trailing behind Twitter in terms of relevance lately, but it still commands a sizable audience. The site has ‘democratic’ system which allows users to digg or bury a story, depending on how much they like it. The stories that get the most diggs get to the front page, guaranteeing a huge amou... |
6 August 2010
11:46 GMT |
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The new Digg has been in the works for many, many months and several delays have pushed it back way beyond its initial scheduled release date. But Digg v4 is finally very close with the latest indication of the impending launch being the closing of new registrations on the site. Visitors wanting to sign up are being ... |
3 August 2010
06:25 GMT |
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A Digg redesign has been in the works for a long time and, after several delays, it looks like the launch date is finally getting closer. A video of founder and now CEO Kevin Rose going over the changes in the upcoming Digg v4 has been ‘leaked’ and it makes for a good idea of what to expect. The new Digg ... |
29 May 2010
06:14 GMT |
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Digg has been seeing some changes lately and they’re not the much-awaited and delayed redesign, unfortunately. A month ago, long-time CEO Jay Adelson was more or less ousted from the company he co-founded with Kevin Rose, which took over his role. He was quick to make a few changes, but this latest one may not ... |
7 May 2010
04:35 GMT |
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Digg is going through some big changes and, for once, they're not related to the upcoming overhaul of the site, dubbed Digg v4. Cofounder and CEO Jay Adelson stepped down from his position on Monday without citing any real reasons. However, a growing disparity between him and Digg Founder and new CEO Kevin Rose ... |
7 April 2010
04:56 GMT |
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There are very few companies as determined as Google to take over the web and only one in a position to do so, Facebook. The social-networking giant is getting ready to unveil more features, which would allow it to 'infiltrate' even more sites around the web than it has so far. One feature is a 'like&#... |
29 March 2010
10:17 GMT |
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We're getting more and more info on the upcoming 'New Digg,' which is slated to be launched soon. Along with the new website, Digg is also releasing new Digg buttons and widgets for webmasters. The tools are now available for all publishers and Digg says they should come in handy for those wanting to g... |
24 March 2010
08:05 GMT |
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Digg is planning to launch a major revamp of the site and now it's shedding more details on the login part. The site says a great focus was on supporting outside services as identity providers to make it easier for users to register for Digg. The new Digg will support five providers, though practically a lot mor... |
18 March 2010
12:36 GMT |
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Digg has been around for several years now, but, recently, its importance has been veining in the face of nimble, new players like Twitter. However, it's not going away anytime soon and it is now working on a big update and revamp of the site to bring it more up-to-date with its, mostly indirect, competitors. Th... |
15 March 2010
07:04 GMT |
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After announcing back in September 2009 that they would be switching from a MySQL environment to a NoSQL BigTable solution, Digg engineers rewrote the majority of their site's code using the Cassandra DB as their main data storage handler. Cassandra was chosen from other open-source NoSQL solutions, including Co... |
13 March 2010
06:37 GMT |
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Advertising has been the main driving engine of the entire online economy, so you'd think that, after all these years, there's no way someone could really come up with something new. Bug Digg showed that approaches that might seem counter-intuitive might very well pay off in the long run. Last year, the soc... |
26 February 2010
10:55 GMT |
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Digg has had an interesting year in 2009 as the site struggled to regain its identity in a world ruled by Twitter and Facebook. It mostly focused on revenue and apparently has managed to fix that particular problem and now it's looking at growth again planning some radical changes to make the site relevant again... |
22 January 2010
11:03 GMT |
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Digg has been evolving fast in the past year and it’s not done yet. It has several new revenue streams which should keep it in the clear financially, at least for now, and it's making some deep changes to the service in order to counter new threats like Twitter. One way is with the newish Digg API which s... |
20 January 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Digg has had one busy year and, while things are looking up, it still has a lot of work cut out ahead of it. Twitter was a major disruptor and replaced the social news aggregator as a source for many users who found Twitter's immediacy a much better alternative to Digg. At the same time, Digg introduced quite a... |
29 December 2009
04:55 GMT |
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Digg may not be the hottest thing in Silicon Valley at the moment, thanks to Facebook and Twitter stealing all the spotlight, but don't discount the social news aggregator just yet. As it turns five years old, the site is looking forward to a new chapter in its history as the features implemented over the past y... |
5 December 2009
06:12 GMT |
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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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