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.
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.
I’ve been using Spotplex ever since their launch about a year ago. A popular widget/digg like service, Spotplex announced yesterday (or today officially), it’s going offline for good.
Couple weeks ago, I tried to access Spotplex, the site wouldn’t load.
Yesterday, I tried to access Spotplex, the site loaded with a message saying Spotplex will be gone.
Today, I tried to access Spotplex, they now have a single HTML landing page like this:
We regret to inform you that Spotplex is going offline. This was a very hard decision for us and we are sure you will miss the service as much as we do.
If you are interested in our assets or in knowing more on the shutdown of Spotplex, you can reach us at support@spotplex.com
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.
Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.
Web 2.0 services are now the commoditized platform, not the final product. In a world where a social network, wiki, or social bookmarking service can be built for free and in an instant, what’s next?
Web 2.0 services like digg and YouTube evolve into Web 3.0 services with an additional layer of individual excellence and focus. As an example, funnyordie.com leverages all the standard YouTube Web 2.0 feature sets like syndication and social networking, while adding a layer of talent and trust to them.
A version of digg where experts check the validity of claims, corrected errors, and restated headlines to be more accurate would be the Web 3.0 version. However, I’m not sure if the digg community will embrace that any time soon.
Wikipedia, considered a Web 1.5 service, is experiencing the start of the Web 3.0 movement by locking pages down as they reach completion, and (at least in their German version) requiring edits to flow through trusted experts.
Also of note, is what Web 3.0 leaves behind. Web 3.0 throttles the “wisdom of the crowds” from turning into the “madness of the mobs” we’ve seen all to often, by balancing it with a respect of experts. Web 3.0 leaves behind the cowardly anonymous contributors and the selfish blackhat SEOs that have polluted and diminished so many communities.
Web 3.0 is a return to what was great about media and technology before Web 2.0: recognizing talent and expertise, the ownership of ones words, and fairness. It’s time to evolve, shall we?
I agree with Jason to a certain extent but I believe this isn’t the fullest explanation of what we are about to see. Web3.0 will be more videos, social networks that cover all types of niche markets. It’s like digg sites that will run everywhere just like blogs are doing right now. I don’t know how long THIS will take but once it takes off, it should be the Web3.0 that we did not expect. Remember, Web2.0 is a concept derived from O’Reiley that we just kinda follow after it took off. Web3.0 will be way more serious than this. We won’t know it’s Web3.0 until it has hit us…that will take time…don’t know when…
Check out this hilarious site, WorldDevils. It’s a site where you can vote on your favorite devils in the world. Looks like Bush is the most evil of all…
Any user can submit a devil. This could be a person, company, organization or ideology. From there, you’ll need to pick a category, such as science or politics, and then a country. Devils are categorized by these main factors. In the description of the devil, you can explain who or what they are, and why they’re a devil. You’re also encouraged to provide a source. You can then include an image. With a Digg-like voting system, each devil is then left to the members to be confirmed as evil, or saved from their fallen angel status. Top devils are labeled Beelzebubs.
Somehow, after I have been using Stumbleupon for almost a year, I’ve found that Stumbleupon brings traffic to any site you stumble. (of course, given that you stumble a lot of sites…) We will be testing Stumbleupon as our basis for bringing in traffic to the Zedomax Network over the next couple weeks. Although Digg is also a very good source, they seems to have some type of stereotype of what types of topics they want to show up on the front page. It always seems like the same boring sites that show up on Digg while Stumbleupon has much more diverse crowd.
What’s Stumbleupon? It’s a way of browsing random websites based on your favorite topics with a web-browser plug-in. Although they really need to make the Stumble button faster for those of us “super-fast” stumblers… Well… you can check out my stupid bizarre stumbles on my Stumbleupon account here.
The main thing is that I like their logo, it looks kinda cool~ Sorta like our Dabomb.TV logo….
