Search Engines: Digg
Digg Releases ‘Newswire’ To Help Promote Breaking Stories
A long time favorite news aggregation site of marketers, Digg has released a new service titled ‘Newswire.’ This new service will...
Social Voting Sites Dying & Struggling
It’s been a rough week for two of the bigger players in the social voting space. Propeller, an AOL-owned property that grew out of the old...
New Digg (v4) Goes Live
After a couple months of beta testing with invited Digg members, the new version of Digg — they’re calling it “v4” for...
Digg To Shut Down Its Toolbar, Unban Domains
SEOs (and probably a lot of others, too) are celebrating with today’s news that Digg will shutter its toolbar and unban all previously...
Google’s What’s Popular Gadget: The Next Digg Clone?
Steve Rubel reports that Google has released a new iGoogle Gadget named What’s Popular. The gadget looks like a small little Digg clone to...
Digg Now Buries Microsoft Ads
ClickZ reports Digg has dropped Microsoft as the exclusive ad provider for the site. Microsoft ads started appearing on Digg in October 2007...
The DiggBar Compromise: Show Framebar Only To Logged In Digg Users
Digg is promising a significant change to how its DiggBar framebar operates, one that should solve SEO concerns about how link credit is passed...
The Growth Of Framebars & Kevin Rose On The DiggBar
The DiggBar has been out for about a week now. Since then, there continues to be concerns over twin issues of whether it robs sites of link love...
Digg To Expand With $28.7 Million In Funding
Jay Anderson from Digg announced that the company has received $28.7 million in new funding through Highland Capital Partners. This new funding...
Rumor: Google To Buy Digg For $200 Million?
There are ways in which Digg is like YouTube: it’s the “brand” in a competitive “social news” segment that also...
Why Commercial Domains Don’t Get On Digg Any More
Last year I wrote a post called 5 Reasons To Put Viral Content On Mini-Sites, providing reasons why you might opt to use a mini-site rather than...
Yahoo Buzz: Next Digg Competitor
Valleywag has screen captures of a new Yahoo web site, reportedly launching February 26th, named Yahoo Buzz Beta. Yahoo Buzz will be similar to...
Digg Updates Algorithm – Digg Community Revolts
Two days ago, Digg went down for a short while while changes were being implemented in the system. While nothing was immediately apparent, Brent...
7 Tips To Win The Social News Beauty Pageant
How can you increase your chances of appealing to an average Digger, Stumbler, or other social media user, and actually get them to vote for...
From Browser To Digg Clone: The Short, Unhappy Life Of Netscape
Netscape has been reinvented several times since its acquisition by AOL in November 1998 — and all of these efforts have essentially...
Report: Digg Wants To Sell For $300 Million (Or More)
It’s now basically public information that social news site Digg is shopping itself. VentureBeat cites a “reliable source” in...
Digg Adds Images Tab, New Taxonomy, & More
The Digg Blog announced several additions and changes that went live on Digg last night. The first is the addition of an image tab to the top of...
It’s The (Other) Algorithm, Stupid! Understanding DiggRank
Have you ever wondered what it really takes for a story submitted to Digg to get to the home page? Or why a certain story—even a really...
You’ve Made Digg – Now What?
When you work with Digg, reddit, and the like, you want to get the POP: getting your content to a coveted spot on the homepage. Getting the pop...
US Candidates Hit Digg, Fail To “Get” The Social News Site
Digg The Candidates is a new area on Digg that allows you to see what US presidential candidates are digging and doing on Digg. That’s...