Tag: Digg
Yahoo announced the launch of their new "suggestion boards." Yahoo says that these new boards enable "you can browse suggestions from other site visitors or post your own. Digg-style voting means we can quickly discover what’s most important to users." On Digg, of course, there’s an outburst of negativity suggesting it was a Digg rip-off...
Yahoo employees monitor the discussions, and respond to suggestions or prompt members for extra feedback within the Boards’ comments.
With a €4 Million Series A financing, Luxembourg based Wikio increased leadership in Europe's user-generated news sector.
The company combines both editorial and consumer ranking services to provide a balanced, yet diverse information portal. However, Europe's numerous language barriers are slowing Wikio's rise to the status of U.S. counterparts Digg and Technorati.
Linking to media sites outside of Wikio's coverage is problematic without a built-in translation service, and prohibits the global view desired by users. Although Wikio...
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Digg has raised another $8.5 million in new funding from existing VCs, Greylock Ventures and Omidyar Network. The company, previously had raised close to $3 million from these two firms, and Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Ning and Netscape.
With the newest version of Digg's service, which includes the ability to post and rate podcasts and video, Adelson said that Digg will be able to maintain its lead position.
Still, new problems have arisen for Digg in the latter half of the year that could spell trouble for the company. News reports...
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Valleywag's takes on Digg's dance:
Techcrunch is reporting that Digg is being shopped around to News Corp and other companies for a paltry $150 million dollars. Digg has been unable to control bandwidth cost or monetize the traffic, without a buyer they will enter Series B funding from Greylock Partners.
Sarah Lacy, who co-wrote the BusinessWeek cover story "How this kid made $60 million in 18 months", will leave the magazine for a year to work on her book about Web 2.0, she said in an e-mail.
Also, a separate source says Lacy definitely took six figures (probably $100-200k, says the source) for the book.
Finally, someone at BusinessWeek mentioned that the bubblicious article was Lacy's first cover story, theorizing that she got it thanks to co-writer Jessi Hempel, a more seasoned writer with some covers under her belt.
Granted, Jessi...
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Up until now, Revision3 was a side project for the group, but now it's turning into a full-fledged, venture backed outfit with new offices and a staff of ad salespeople. Will this change the geeky, goofy content that has marked the company's shows such as "Diggnation" and "Cntrl + Alt + Chicken"? Mr. Rose, swigging a beer, said, no way: "We don't have to be all things to all people... It's about creating niche content for techies."
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This week there's been turmoil in the Digg world, as the Digg developers strive to reduce the influence of the top users - in other words make the system fairer. As Kevin Rose recently wrote, their aim is that "a more diverse pool of individuals will be need to deem the story homepage-worthy".
However this has caused an uproar amongst Digg's top users, who feel they have been accused of gaming. Apparently most of Digg's top 20-30 users have refused to contribute or digg stories since the uproar happened. Or if they have dugg stories,...
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Kevin Rose's response to complaints about users gaming digg:
Kevin Rose:
"Today we read a couple blog posts that highlight users digging each others stories. This is something we encourage through our friends features and will continue to expand as digg evolves. It is our goal to create a platform in which you can share and promote news that is important to you. What is changing however is how we are handling story promotion. While we don't disclose exactly how story promotion works (to prevent gaming the system), I can say that a key...
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Here is more data on how the Digg system is being manipulated by a small group of users. In total, this group has 1710 promoted stories.
Blogger Sean Kelly deiced to give up Slashdot for 2 months and try Digg.
"Immediately I was buffeted with an array of articles rife with misspellings that were poorly summarized, failed to give context, and just weren't all that interesting outside of a "oh, wow" kind of response. Yet I decided to give it a fair shot: 2 months worth of Digg."
What's wrong with Digg?
- The article summaries are awfully short, averaging about 35 words.
- Summaries are atrociously misspelled and exhibit dreadful grammar.
- Comments on Digg articles are...
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