Now that Digg is dead to me I need to find a new home for social news and bookmarking. I do still use Netscape and StumbleUpon for finding things of interest but I need something that is social aside from Netscape.I enjoy commenting on articles and finding people with similar interests, does such a site…
Tag: Social Media
Digg and the Pirate’s Dilemma
I have recently been reading an excellent book by Matt Mason titled The Pirate’s Dilemma. This book talks about how youth culture is reinventing capitalism.The book is very well written and researched. The core theme behind the book is how the culture of piracy (that’s you and me) causes change in the capitalist world. While…
Plime: a truly user controlled social media experience
Plime is a pliable tree of interesting links, cultivated and pruned by everyone. It relies on the power of online community participation to control it’s structure and editorial content. It’s also a great place to meet others with similar interests. That is how Plime describes describes itself.After reading that you might think that Plime is…
Do you Stumble?
Do you use StumbleUpon? I have been using StumbleUpon off and on for a few years now. I even became a donating member back before they got gobbled up by eBay.My StumbleUpon ProfileOne of the great things about Stumbling is that you can tell StumbleUpon what sort of sites you want to see and it…
Netscape: Let the Clone Wars begin!
Earlier today on the Netscape Blog it was announced that the impending shutdown of the social news experiment at Netscape dot com was true.Visitors to Netscape.com will see a more traditional news experience very soon. Don’t worry, the social news site isn’t going away! We will keep you updated on where you will be able…
New Digg says, “You must watch videos!!!”
OK, is this some sort of joke? Why is Digg forcing me to include at least one category of videos?After the last site redesign Digg removed videos from the front page all together. Now that they have added them back they are forcing me to include at least one category of videos in my home…
How To: Correctly game a social news site
So, you think you found a way to game a social news site such as Digg or Netscape? You think you are so smart because you are emailing links to your friends and asking them to digg your story? Guess again chump! You are about to run into the cold hard door of failure.The problem…
Dealing with too much traffic
I recently moved hmtk.com and a few other websites to their own dedicated server. There are currently ten sites running on the same server as hmtk.com. A few days ago one of those sites got dugg.While that one site was on digg’s homepage the server load was in the 10 to 60 range. A server…
Technorati can’t count?
It has recently come to my attention that the blog tracking site Technorati is suffering with a math problem. Yes, the site that tracks millions of blogs (and rates them by popularity) does not understand that their Top 100 list should be just that, a top 100 list. Instead their Top 100 list appears to…
Yahoo adds Flickr to MyBlogLog
Just this morning I clicked on the “View/Add Pics” link in my MyBlogLog profile and I was surprised to see that Yahoo has integrated Flickr into MyBlogLog.Right above the are where you can upload new images for your MyBlogLog account is a button marked “Click Here to Automatically Show Your Recent Flickr Photos”. Clicking on…
Where did all the fans go?
RT over at Untwisted Vortex just tipped me off to this one.If you go to Technorati and look at any blog you will find that the listing of who favorited that blog is no longer there. In fact, except for the Top 100 Most Favorited blog list there is no indicator anywhere of how many…
Digg: Open up the Bury Data Petition
Attention all current and former digg users. There is an online petition for you to sign if you believe that digg should open up the bury information.To: Digg StaffDigg has become a slow RSS feed for big media companies. In all honesty anyone could setup an RSS feed with a few of the major internet…