popfail.com wrote an interesting article this month revealing that 31% of the news made popular on the digg.com homepage was submitted by only 10 users. 10 users out of around 21 million or more is a very small number to...
Author: Lincoln on July 25th, 2008
Category: Web News
Tags: digg, digg popular, digg top users, submitted stories
Digg Social News website and it's open source clone Pligg usually have very little in common bar the voting concept, Digg has had investment of around $11.3 Million whilst pligg has near to no investment. One thing they do have...
Author: Lincoln on July 19th, 2008
Category: Web News
Tags: digg, digg spam, spam, spammers, submission spam
Earlier this week we reported on Scour a new search engine with some exciting social based features, hot on the heels of the Scour launch comes another new social based search service titled Delver. One of the main features of...
Author: Lincoln on July 19th, 2008
Category: Social Networking
Tags: delver, Social Networking, social search, social search graph
A new search engine service with a twist titled Scour has just launched into public beta, formerly known as aftervote scour aims to change web searches to a social affair. Scour is a search engine for the web2.0 generation gathering...
Author: Lincoln on July 13th, 2008
Category: Social Networking
Tags: scour, search engine, Social Networking, social search, social search engine
EIOBA is an article publishing site with a very similar layout and features to that of a social voting website like digg.com, the main difference is that EIOBA deals with exclusively written articles rather than allowing users to submit links...
Author: Lincoln on July 10th, 2008
Category: Web News
Tags: eioba, php framework, prado, prado framework, social articles, social network
Digg has rolled out it's new feature Recommendation Engine in BETA stage to some members of it's userbase, Recommendation Engine is located in the Upcoming Section and selects stories that users with a similar taste to you have dugg. If...
Author: Lincoln on July 2nd, 2008
Category: Web News
Tags: digg, digg feature, recommendation engine, social news
Back in late November 2007 both Digg The Candidates and Yahoo Pulse launched in the midst of the growing presidential election fever sweeping the US. Digg's political section has done very well since it's launch and received a new design...
Author: Lincoln on June 29th, 2008
Category: Web News
Tags: digg, digg candidates, digg political
If your interested in Social News based web site’s then this video is most probably something your would want to watch, Digg Founder Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson discuss Digg’s ad partnership with Microsoft, acquisition rumors, the power of...
Author: Lincoln on June 12th, 2008
Category: Interviews
Tags: digg, interview, jay Adelson, kevin rose, video