Spy shot of Digg’s new voting feature for upcoming items
TechCrunch posted this blurry screenshot that shows a Digg homepage with what seems to be a voting feature added onto the items in the Upcoming section. Digg execs won’t tell TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington what it is, which means Arrington will take an extra 45 minutes… Continue Reading
Digg starts letting users vote on advertising
Digg, the super-popular but still not-profitable news aggregator, announced today that it’s starting to roll out the vote-on-ads system that it announced in June.
On Digg, users vote news stories up or down — and with the Digg Ads program, they’ll be able to do the… Continue Reading
Digg will finally allow other sites, apps to add content
Social news site Digg, founded by camera-friendly CEO Kevin Rose (pictured), is still going strong even if it has been edged out of the limelight by Facebook and Twitter. Digg is now developing a new application programming interface (API), however, that’ll make it much easier… Continue Reading
Why Bit.ly may beat Digg
URL shortening services may seem trivial, but they’re a potential goldmine of information about what humans on the Internet, not automated bots, find valuable or at least interesting.
Compared to, say, Google Maps, the way a URL shortener works is blessedly simple: A human Web surfer… Continue Reading
Digg developer upgrade includes better search, story-finding tools
Social news aggregator Digg just expanded its set of application programming interfaces — the services that allow third-party developers to build software using information from the site. Changes in the APIs include better search and article discovery. Digg has been working to make more of its… Continue Reading
Digg users to get ads they can vote on (and price)
Digg is planning to introduce a new form of advertising in a few months, where ads appear within the social news aggregator’s river of content. Like stories themselves, these ads can be “dugg” (voted up) or “buried” (voted down). The company has cleverly priced these… Continue Reading
Digg snatches top advertising sales executive Chas Edwards
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Digg, the site that ranks news stories, has hired highly respected advertising sales executive Chas Edwards to become chief revenue officer.
It’s a major blow for Federated Media, where Edwards was publisher & chief revenue officer. Edwards built up Federated’s sales team from scratch, closing the… Continue Reading
Digg dumps Shouts for Facebook, Twitter and email
Not only have Twitter and Facebook stolen Digg’s media buzz, they’ve now invaded founder Kevin Rose’s home turf. The Digg company blog has verified that the site no longer supports its Shout social-networking feature. Instead, Digg will let members use Facebook, Twitter and email to… Continue Reading
Ditched by potential parents, Digg grows up on its own
When it comes to web 2.0 startups, the social news site Digg is like an old man. Launched in 2004, it quickly exploded on to the scene and became both a web and media darling in relatively short order. So now it seems like it… Continue Reading
Video: Trent Reznor’s insights into the future of music as a business
By now, everyone realizes that the major music labels have royally screwed up in the transition to digital distribution over the Internet. Digital rights management (DRM) and suing consumers among other errors in judgment seem only to exacerbate problems like piracy. Even today, we’re seeing… Continue Reading
The DiggBar features sponsored links as well
In reviewing Digg’s new DiggBar yesterday, I noted that it did feature advertising if you activated certain drop-downs such as a list of other stories from the same source. That seems like an okay way to make some money, but ultimately, Digg users probably aren’t… Continue Reading
Digg, Facebook and Google: Whose toolbar is it anyway?
News aggregator Digg and social network Facebook have been working together for many months to let their users share links to news articles and other content between the two sites. In the latest example of that, the new Digg toolbar inserts itself over the web… Continue Reading
With DiggBar, Digg wants to be central to sharing content on the web — and it could work
The main problem I have with Digg these days is that I have to go to digg.com to use it. Sure, there are other ways to see stories on the site, such as RSS. But if you want to Digg a story, you have to… Continue Reading
March of the Diggs: Trent Reznor to be on Digg Dialogg
Every so often, the social voting news site Digg holds a “Digg Dialogg,” a chance for Digg community members to submit and vote on questions that will be asked of an interesting and/or powerful person. The latest announced guest is certainly interesting: Trent Reznor, founder… Continue Reading
The perfect advertisement on Digg
Since social voting site Digg first began, it’s been a common thought that Digg users don’t click on ads. While that’s generally been the rule of thumb for sites that Digg sends traffic to, it’s not clear just how much ad-clicking Digg users do on… Continue Reading
Google makes a Digg for the Recession
When I first read that Google was launching something called Tip Jar, I assumed it was again spreading its monetization strategy to now including taking tips (something which the service TipJoy does). But I was wrong. The service is a place where users go to… Continue Reading
The ugly truth about your favorite social networks
When it comes to social web sites and services, sometimes I think we like to talk about them more than actually use them. A recent post we did about Twitter getting half the press coverage of Facebook despite a fraction of the traffic, seems a… Continue Reading
Roundup: FriendFinder sued for risky business, Digg toolbar sighted, Nokia looks to laptops and more
Here’s the latest action:
Pirate Bay takes fascist funds — The large bittorrent tracker’s major financier, Carl Lundstrom, has been connected with neo-nazi groups and political parties.
Nortel lays off 3,200 more — The telecom company will cut its global workforce by 10 percent over the next several months… Continue Reading
Happy birthday, Yahoo Buzz. Who are you again?
Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Reddit, Delicious. These are all social sites that are well known for sharing stories with a massive amount of people. Yahoo Buzz? Not so much. But apparently, it’s also in the business of sharing stories. And today is its first birthday.
In a… Continue Reading
Digg not digging the economy, cuts 10 percent
Popular news aggregator Digg is laying off 10 percent of its 75 person workforce. Chief executive Jay Adelson announced a “headcount reduction in certain areas” this morning on the company blog and gave the 10 percent estimate to Webware’s Rafe Needleman.
It seems a bit disingenuous… Continue Reading