Posts Tagged with ‘Digg’

Thursday night, the first face-to-face meeting was held at the RapLeaf offices in California or those involved in the Data Portability Group, including Chris Saad (Faraday Media), Daniela Barbosa (Dow Jones), J. Sullivan (Mozilla), Mike McKenna (Yahoo), Marc Canter, Tod Sampson (MyBlogLog), Steve Williams (Digg), Ben Metcalfe, David Recordon (Six Apart), Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), J. Trent Adams (MatchMine) and Jim Meyer (LinkedIn).
Chris Saad opened the meeting with introductions and explaining the new hierarchy of the Google Groups set up for [...]

It seems like every other week there's a new headline: Digg Killer, Google Killer, Facebook Killer. This time, however, it's an old dog learning a new trick, with Slashdot adding a sideshow to throw its hat into the ring with Digg, Fark, and the rest with their launch of Idle, a non-tech version of the popular site aimed at the people who don't want to endlessly discuss the idiosyncrasies of the tech industry.
I never thought I'd see the day when [...]

Every news feed that I read this week has been filled with stories about the latest Digg revolt. But it was the New York Times' coverage that first grabbed my attention with their opening line "The volatile users at social news ranking site Digg.com Thursday launched a new revolt against the site."
I rarely use Digg. I'll often lend support to an article that I think deserves the attention, but as far as reading news? I don't even bother. And the [...]

Anyone who has been keeping track of all the microblogging services now available to internet users (Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Meemi, and the list goes on), probably knows that although having launched last June, Pownce has been in a beta stage for the past seven months, limiting the number of people who sign up only to those who have been invited.
Now, the latest brainchild of Kevin Rose (creator of Digg), has today evolved from an "invite-only" service into a public one. [...]

I tend to keep my eye on about a dozen or so feeds (gathered by Google Reader, if you’re curious to know) every day in order to scrounge up enough fodder for my posts here at Profy. (Si, soy un moocher.) Some of course receive more attention than others.
Case in point: I passed over my subscription to CNET’s Tech News Blog for the first couple of days of the week, and in so doing, missed quite a delectable piece [...]

So, how’d you spend your pseudo-religio-slash-gungho-consumero holiday break? Watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the upteenth time? Had your standard overfill of the eggnog once more? Finally put to paper a solemn vow to wreak damage upon all the world’s sweater makers?
We at Profy did what we do best. We spent our precious free moments away from word processors trawling the Web for lots and lots of digital junk (food). And, like plenty other Internet fanatics who double as Digg [...]

Remember when Digg launched its Images category earlier this month? It was an addition that really couldn’t have come soon enough. The social news company got plenty of notes of appreciation, plenty of big Xs and Os for finally putting it out there for the community. At last there was a convenience place to share all those cool Flickr finds…outside of Flickr. So all around thumbs up, right?
Sure, we can second such impressions. Many of us here [...]

Before Profy hits Paris tomorrow for LeWeb 3, I thought it?d be fitting to run some startups by you. Why? Well, why not? It?ll give you a feel for what to expect. You?ll familiarize yourself a bit. Or something like that.
Anyway, let?s press on. First up, Semingo. It?s a social search startup. What?s social search? Beats me.
No, seriously, social search is kind of cool. (I suppose. In a sort of Google-wants-to-be-your-buddy-and-go-karting-together kind of way.) The objective is to take [...]

Scoop This is a site that is trying (and failing) to be the "next Digg". A user submitted news site, complete with user profiles, article ratings and tags? Yawn. We've definitely seen this one before, and better.
Taking the concept of "meta" to the extreme, this site has managed to cobble itself together using every possible Web 2.0 cliche. Blue, green and orange? Check. Obnoxiously large, rounded buttons? Check. User generated links with "newsy" titles? Check. User profiles? Check. Ugly [...]