Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.
Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.
Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.
Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.
Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.
Sites like Digg and Reddit have been becoming increasing popular because the news and stories that are put in front of the users are those that receive the largest number of votes. Reddit has let users create their own "Reddits" for awhile now, but a site called Slinkset offers some extensive customization while maintaining the fundamental structure of Reddit.
Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.
The Digg that many of you are familiar with is a place to go to discover new content on the web. Over the years they've stuck to their roots and have focused simply on the new content, but now it looks as though they are branching out a bit. Just yesterday Kevin Rose announced that they were starting something new called Digg Dialogg.
Back in February we told you about Yahoo Buzz, a service Yahoo pushed into beta that you could easily compare to Digg. Yahoo described it as a new way for people to tell everybody what they thought was cool and in the process, help make Yahoo.com even better. Yahoo Buzz tries to determine the best stories on the web based upon votes, emails and searches.
Yesterday Digg decided to launch their first Firefox 3 extension, and being a Firefox extension developer myself one of the first things I noticed was the preferential treatment they apparently received. Before I get into that let's take a look at their well-designed extension.
In the past, we wouldn't have ever expected Google to be interested in acquiring Digg. But some of the acquisitions and services they have launched over the last year or two changed that thought and now we're not surprised over a rumor that Google is in final negotiations to acquire Digg.
Back last September, Netscape announced they were calling it quits with their "Digg-Clone" social media site and instead were starting something new called Propeller. Essentially Propeller is the Digg-Clone under a new name. They incorporated the typical Netscape orange and green colors into the new logo and called it a day.
Digg is trying to make the process of discovering new content a little bit easier by introducing The Recommendation Engine which is currently in the beta stage and available to of Digg's registered users. Digg's Kevin Rose posted about this new Recommendation Engine and said that there are now more than 16,000 stories submitted every single day in the Upcoming section.
Did ya miss us? We've been out of town since last Thursday, and since then there were some pretty big announcements that we wanted to be sure to cover. It appears as though the last few days before last weekend was the prime time for acquisitions. ;)
Win; Mac; Linux Flock 1.2 Beta is now available, and as hard as it is to believe this version is even more social. This Beta makes it possible to keep up with your friends' activity on Digg or Pownce, and get AOL email notifications instantly as new messages come crawling in.
Popular social-driven news site Digg wants to be bought and they've been working with an investment bank to make it happen. At this point it's rumored that there are four companies after them. TechCrunch reports that there are two media/news companies and then two "big" Internet companies. Any guesses what the two "big" Internet companies are? Why of course, it's Google and Microsoft.
It seems as though the one thing Digg users have requested over and over again, and the one thing that Digg has promised was coming is a dedicated images section. It finally went live last night which means if users come across a funny or interesting image they think is Digg worthy, they can submit it and a thumbnail of the image will appear aside the submission so that users can get a preview of it before clicking through to the original source.
Last night Digg launched several new changes to their site with the biggest change being new user profiles.
Last week, Netscape posted an announcement that they were calling it quits with their "Digg-Clone" social media site. They said that after a study, they found that people didn't associate the Netscape brand with socially controlled news, therefore they were moving on. They also promised though, that their social news site would be around, just not at the Netscape.com domain.
Some of you probably remember the controversy that came last Summer when Netscape launched a social news service which they hoped would compete with Digg. They even went as far as "bribing" some of the top Digg and Reddit users at the time with $1,000 per month to come over to Netscape and submit at least 150 news stories each month to help build a community. It's been just over a year now since the service launched, and Netscape is calling it quits.
