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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

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. Who else

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

Last night Digg launched several new changes to their site with the biggest change being new user profiles. Thus far the opinions regarding the changes have been mixed.  According to CEO of Digg Jay Adelson, "The challenge is on us to provide what our community needs" because now the non-techies are more abundant on the site than the techies who helped make Digg as popular as it is today.  Adelson says that what the

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. Soon Netscape users will be forwarded to a more traditional type of web page

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

Web Browser Wednesday

I’ve been addicted to sidebars ever since I bought my first widescreen monitor. Sidebars have the ability to provide a lot of information inside a very small space, and it wasn’t until recently that I fully started to utilize them. It all started when I put the Tab-Bar on the side in both my Firefox and Opera installations (video on customizing Opera),