June 30th, 2008 — digg
Well, it looks like there’s some leaked pics of the Digg Recommendation engine. It looks pretty good.
One thing I don’t get is, if you find someone with similar interests, what’s the point?
I guess you can make more friends but aren’t most diggers (including myself) annoyed at countless spam shouts by their so-called friends?
Well, we will just have to wait and see if the Digg Recommendation Engine works well or not.
Time will tell…
June 30th, 2008 — Launching, Social Networking, digg
Digg, a very popular online social networking site, has announced that its going to implement a new recommendation engine that will find users stories based on their past voting habits compared with other users.
I think this is a very smart move on Digg’s part as they are making another reason for people to use Digg.
As said in the video, Digg has been previously plagued with overwhelming amount of information while there not enough pixels to list ALL the top stories at Digg.
With this new feature, I am hoping to find Digg a more useful service for finding new stories to blog about.
The Recommendation Engine is a cool way to discover new content on Digg. Now that there are more than 16,000 stories submitted to the Upcoming section every day, it’s difficult to sort through everything to find the best content. The Recommendation Engine uses your past digging activity to identify what we call Diggers Like You (who you can see on the right hand nav) to suggest stories you might like.
via Digg blog
May 13th, 2008 — Launched, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Web3.0, digg, web2.0, yahoo
I did a post about Yahoo Buzz when it came out couple months ago over at our Dot Com site, it looks like Yahoo’s (YHOO) Yahoo Buzz might be way bigger than Digg after all.
Digg will still hold its traffic as it has been steady with a large number of bloggers using the service.
For Yahoo Buzz to get even more popular, they need to open it up to all the bloggers, not just via invites.
I am sure this will happen soon and Yahoo Buzz might take a big share of the social networking market.
Furthermore, Yahoo Buzz has a more diverse audience than Digg. While Digg’s young, male, techy audience has been the stuff of legend since the site’s beginnings, 51% of Yahoo Buzz’s visitors are women. This doesn’t matter much to the users but it does matter a great deal to the advertisers; another legend has it that diggers never click on ads, and this might not hold true for Yahoo Buzz.
May 9th, 2008 — digg
Here’s a video interview with digg co-founder Jay Adelson over at ValleyWag, check it out and enjoy~
Digg cofounder Jay Adelson is now asked by the likes of Kara Swisher how he’d fix big media companies, as in this clip. But there was a time when he barely knew what to do with his own Internet startup, Equinix.
May 7th, 2008 — Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, digg, web2.0
Digg, a popular Web2.0 social networking service, is working on a new comments system that will supposedly be faster than ever. In the video, the narator describes the new comments system without AJAX. I can’t understand how that could be faster without AJAX, but still looking forward to the new comments system.
One thing I’d have to suggest Digg is to make their submit system faster in the future.
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