The social bookmarking… umm… social news… no, wait a minute… The anti-social bookmarking news site Digg has just reached 1 million members.Congratulations Kevin Rose.Oh, guess what, that’s 1 million registered users! As opposed to unregistered users, or banned users, or deleted users… Or is it? We may never know. It may be something as simple…
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Digg’s new ‘auto bury’ feature
It has recently come to my attention that the recent news of sites being unbanned from Digg may have been a red herring thrown at us to divert our attention from the full impact of a new Digg feature. I am talking about Digg’s new “auto bury” feature.New Auto-Bury FeatureYes indeed, it’s a new feature!Sites…
The effect of being buried on Digg
Last night a story on hmtk.com made the front page of Digg. This story was written by my friend Force Drainer and it is called 501st Legion Inducts Kevin Smith as “friend”.The story made it to the front page of Digg just a few minutes before midnight on Monday March 5th. Upon reaching the front…
Ignore the man behind the curtain
There is trouble in the magical land of Digg. Bury Brigades are attacking, Spammers are lurking, politicos are dirtying the public waterways and those nasty SEO types are trying to take over! What ever shall we do? Who will hear our cries? Who will lead the way? Never fear good diggers for residing in the…
Digg of the Day: Drug Dealers vs. Software Developers: how similar they are!
Both refer to their clients as ‘users’, offer the first one for ‘free’ and have ‘Asian’ connections. Hmmm… is there some cross-over here?I found this by using StumbleUpon and thought I might Digg it as well. There are some similar entries on Digg but this one is a little bit longer.If you like it Digg…
My Digg of the day 2-27-07: The 7 worst sexy toys for children
I could not believe this when I found it. It reminds me of the ten evil toys list you see every Christmas.Take a few minutes to look it over. If you like it Digg it, if not don’t! Feel free to leave comments as well.UPDATE: This made the Digg homepageThe Peekaboo Dance Pole at number…
Data problems at Digg?
I was surprised today to see a post on John Chow’s website stating that he has been unbanned from Digg. It’s not just him either!According to a post on pronetadvertising: Digg Lets Banned Domains Back In, a large number of previously blocked domains have been added back to Digg. This is very interesting as, in…
Digg makes Digging easier for blogs
On the Digg blog today Brian Link announced that Digg was adding some new “smart” Digg buttons for people to use on their websites.In the past I have tried to use the “Digg this” code on my blog and it has never worked out for me. If Digg is releasing new options for putting the…
How to fix Digg’s gaming problem
I’ve been looking over the Digg TOS for any explicit text dealing with paid submissions and I just can’t find it! Perhaps you could take a minute to read their TOS and let me know?In the Digg TOS there is this one section on user conduct:As a condition of use, you promise not to use…
Digg makes more changes
Well, Digg went down for a short time today to make some changes to their website. When they came back up there was no new post on the Digg blog. I took a quick look around the site and these are the changes I found:1) The information under a story, as to where it comes…
Saying Goodbye to Digg
In a recent posting on Digg’s blog Kevin Rose has stated that the top diggers list will soon be gone. The reason Kevin Rose gives is rather strange: “Which leads me to a disappointing trend that we’ve noticed over the past several months. Some of our top users – the people that have spent hundreds…
Digg advertising
It’s a good thing that Diggers do not click on ads. If Diggers went to a website en-masse and all of them clicked a CPC advertising link on the way out Google AdWords would run out of inventory and the on line advertising market would crash!Think about it, a good Digg Effect can generate 60,000+…