Posts Tagged ‘Digg’

CyberNotes: Top 10 Sidebar Sites

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.

August 29th, 2007
CyberNotes: Top 10 Sidebar Sites

CyberNotes: Best Bookmarklets and Favelets Part 2

Like many of you, I use bookmarklets on a daily basis to complete tasks a bit faster. Many of them offer features that normally require Firefox extensions to do, and I am one of those people that try to minimize the number of extensions I use.

August 22nd, 2007
CyberNotes: Best Bookmarklets and Favelets Part 2

Monitor Sites for Changes with Mr. Uptime

There is a cool Firefox extension available called Mr. Uptime. With it you can monitor sites that are currently not available, and it will notify you when the site is back up and running. I’m guessing that this is going to appeal the most to the Digg crowd since they constantly encounter sites that collapse under heavy load.

August 10th, 2007
Monitor Sites for Changes with Mr. Uptime

Slashdot Firehose Competing with Digg?

Slashdot is summoning everyone for a new service that they have dubbed Firehose. The service has some strong similarities to social news site Digg, but at the same time they also have some unique features. Firehose is basically a hub where the user-submitted stories appear for others to vote on, and as more people vote on them they start to move up the color spectrum.

August 2nd, 2007
Slashdot Firehose Competing with Digg?

Browse “Popular” Content Quickly with Fichey

Need a way to waste some time today? Checkout Fichey. It just launched and it serves as a way for you to browse through sites that are currently popular. You can also browse through sites that were popular previously by selecting a date on their calendar.

July 27th, 2007
Browse “Popular” Content Quickly with Fichey

DiggReSS Does What Digg’s RSS Feed Should Do

One of my biggest pet-peeves with Digg’s RSS feed is that they do not include a link to the original source. You have to click on the link to the news item on Digg, and then from Digg, click to view the original article. This problem has been solved for me with the use of DiggRess – an alternative RSS feed for Digg.

May 23rd, 2007
DiggReSS Does What Digg’s RSS Feed Should Do

Digg feeling the Wrath of their own Community

The Digg community has been known to throw a fit when other sites have implemented a “Digg-like” interface. They threw temper tantrums and rattled off obscenities when Yahoo launched their “Digg-like” suggestion site. They’ve done the same countless other times, but now they’ve turned on their very own Digg.

May 2nd, 2007
Digg feeling the Wrath of their own Community

Digg’s API is up for Grabs – Contest Begins

Digg users are celebrating! Finally, the head honchos over at Digg have decided that it’s time to offer up the API that developers have been requesting for a while. Along with it comes a Flash application toolkit, and access to Digg data going all the way back to 2004.

April 20th, 2007
Digg’s API is up for Grabs – Contest Begins

MySpace Enters Social News Market Today (Thursday)

MySpace is going from social network to social news today as they add on the addition of “MySpace News.” They’re expecting that their 100+ million users will make it the next social news success story as users will be voting on their favorite news items.

April 19th, 2007
MySpace Enters Social News Market Today (Thursday)

Spotplex Aims to Compete with Digg

Spotplex came into the picture just a few days ago and has a good chance of becoming a Digg competitor. We decided to hold off writing about it so we could test it out, and get a taste of how it works. Just like Digg, they promote content from around the web.

March 6th, 2007
Spotplex Aims to Compete with Digg

Wired News Buys Votes on Digg to Proove a Point

Wired News recently did an experiment with Digg to prove a point, and it’s drawing quite a bit of attention. Annalee Newitz of Wired News set up a pointless blog filled with pictures of crowds of people. She says the intent was to be as random and boring as possible with no originality and no analysis. After the blog was all set, she submitted it to Digg.

March 1st, 2007
Wired News Buys Votes on Digg to Proove a Point

Dell’s Most Requested Features Focus on Open Source Software

Dell’s IdeaStorm website has only been available for a few days and the votes are already pouring in. With users from sites like Slashdot and Digg there is no doubt that many of the requested features would be related to open source software.

February 20th, 2007
Dell’s Most Requested Features Focus on Open Source Software

New Digg Theme for Pligg – Will it get Pulled Soon?

There has been all kinds of controversy in the Digg arena the past week with two big companies, Dell and Yahoo, both creating Digg-like sites to receive user feedback.

February 20th, 2007
New Digg Theme for Pligg – Will it get Pulled Soon?

Dell’s New Ideastorm: Digg Users…Start Your Engines!

After the drama that Yahoo’s new suggestion site caused I wasn’t expecting to see a big company launch a Digg-like site for a little while. As it turns out that “little while” was just a few days because Dell just opened the doors to a new site for users to submit ideas.

February 16th, 2007
Dell’s New Ideastorm: Digg Users…Start Your Engines!

Yahoo Launches Suggestion Site: Digg Users Whine

We came across Yahoo's announcement yesterday for their "Digg-like" site for voting on suggestions. It really didn't seem to be anything exciting to write about, so we didn't. Then this morning, we came across the submission for this announcement over at Digg, and as I'm writing this, there are nearly 2,988 Diggs.

February 15th, 2007
Yahoo Launches Suggestion Site: Digg Users Whine

WTF? Technorati’s New Digg Clone

No, not "what the..." instead, Where's the Fire? It was over at Technorati for a short time, and then vanished. Steve Rubel over at Micro Persuasion managed to catch it when it was up and running to get screenshots.  Since then it has been taken down, but WTF (Where's the Fire) is Technorati's new Digg-like Clone.

January 31st, 2007
WTF? Technorati’s New Digg Clone

iJigg, the Digg for Music?

There's a social network for just about everything these days, why not music? iJigg went live on January 15th and is a Digg-like social network for music. It's not the first social network for music by any means, but to my knowledge, it's the first Digg-like one.

January 26th, 2007
iJigg, the Digg for Music?