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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
