Near the end of TWiT 77 Leo made a few candid comments about the failed Digg acquisition by News Corp. I know Jay Adelson has said that Digg is not for sale on forbes.com but…Leo: The thing about digg, which is really sad, is that uh, you know Murdoch offered well over a hundred million…
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Gaming the Digg: Friends
As many of you may already know, a while back Digg introduced a great “friends” system that allowed you to track what your friends Dugg/submitted. This was designed to help you find good stories from good submitters. It was great, then it got changed.I have been reading the blogs of various big name Diggers and…
HowTo: Gaming the Digg
Most people who use Digg know about the continual algorthym upgrades. These changes are made to prevent the “gaming” of Digg. i.e. They are meant to prevent people from using Digg as a personal advertising scheme. There still are a few very easy things you can do to “game” the system.A) The Steve Colbert SystemThis…
If Digg is sold, what happens to Diggnation?
One aspect of Digg is Diggnation, the podcast hosted by Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose. In all of the stories about the possible sale of Digg no one is talking about the driving force behind Digg, which is Diggnation.Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht are clearly the spokesmen for Digg. Whether they were hired or not…
Is Kevin Rose ‘Digging’ for a buyer?
Word on the web is that News Corp is in talks to purchase Digg for $150MDigg has been in talks about acquisition with several companies, News Corp is just one of them. Rumors say negotiations have not been able to settle on a number higher then $150M so Digg may instead go into a second…
The Digg Effect Part 4: Netscape vs. Digg vs. Stumbleupon
I recently posted a link back to my blog on both Digg and Netscape to see what would happen. The results were not as shocking as you might think… until you factor in StumbleUpon!The entry I linked to with both news aggregators was The Three Letters. I did not know what sort of result to…
The Digg Effect, part 3: what does it do to your advertising revenue?
‘I recently had a blog entry hit the front page on Digg. When the heavy traffic arrived my server locked out the blog directory and I lost about 20K hits! I do not know why this occurred but it was a simple enough fix to make and once I found out about the trouble (I…
Digg: Who are the REAL Top Diggers?
The discussion continues to revolve around the Top Submitters on Digg. Persons such as p9s50W5k4GUD2c6 are at the top of the current list but Albertpacino is the man on top of the “all time” list and he has clearly not removed his user icon.The real question may not be “What are the Top Submitters doing…
The Digg Effect
Hello,If you have found yourself here by following a link in a Digg comment then welcome!I placed that link in a select few comments on Digg to test a theory on the Digg Effect. Namely the idea that by simply having a link on Digg to your site will generate massive amounts of traffic and…
The Digg Effect Part 2: Reporting on the results of comment spam.
Earlier today, I posted some comment spam on Digg to see what effect it would have on my website. I only posted the URL to my blog in about 5 comments on the site. I didn’t want to do a huge spamming operation because that is not the point of this study.This is a non-scientific…