digg

“As you increase your activity on Digg, the Recommendation Engine will get to know you better and will suggest more targeted content and Diggers Like You.”

Research Question: Is a group more likely to influence people than an individual Hypothesis: If more experimenters are looking up, then more passersby will look up.

The biggest problem with facebook is that nearly everyone clicking on ads is doing so accidently or using the service much in the way people use DIGG, ie to waste time/browse. with a CTR of 0.04% facebook gets 0.4 clicks more...

Hey everyone. Believe it or not, the dedicated images section you’ve been waiting for finally goes live later tonight. Lots of changes in this release: New Universal Taxonomy New Images Crawler Sorting and Duplicate Image Detection

That is, in my humble opinion, the secret which differentiates linkbait for non-technical audience from linkbait for the Digg crowd. The Digg crowd has the attention span of an ADHD squirrel on illegal substances and has negative a billion interest more...

Hopefully as the site continues to attract new users, the magic won’t be lost.

"Recently author Annalee Newitz created a bit of a stir with the revelation that she had bought her way to the front page of the story-ranking site Digg. Since Digg allows any registered user to go to a story's URL more...

Digg is a multi-headed RSS-outputting news-vetting system.

“We’re proud to say that we didn’t do our research when starting reddit and hadn’t heard of digg until a few weeks after we launched.”