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From here submissions can be shared and users can move ideas up or down in a Digg-like voting mechanism.

If you're going to make a Digg script, you better be certain it's not blatantly easy to detect.

By refreshing this page often, top Digg users (who are all friends in the system) can stay up-to-the-moment with each other.

Read what gets onto the front page of Digg and tailor your Digg submissions to people's preferences if you want your story to make it big.

These tools fall either under the "somewhat useful" or "whoa, cool colors" category, and sadly, Digg Arc seems to be of the second variety.

But I think news aggregators, frankly companies like Digg, have to include a piece of that.

If it does really well, it also makes it on to the digg. com home-page, the equivalent of a newspaper's front page.

And so far, nobody has claimed that the two articles I mentioned are false: Digg exposes most of the voting activity for all to see.

(social news): Digg and other social news sites allow you to customize your profile with your personal information and affiliated websites.

Think of it as software extracting key data from Digg so that the data can be displayed, in any format, on a completely separate Web page.

Digg and Wikipedia would do well to stop pretending they're operated by the many and start thinking of ways to rein in the power of the few.

Rose, who removed the Top Users list from Digg two years ago, today said that they may soon make a reappearance, but in a different form.

The mobile version of Digg and its suite of apps will also be revamped to mirror changes made to the site.

Note that Delicious hasn't decided to put its links inside a toolbar as Digg, StumbleUpon and many other services have. That's nice.

In this case, the value is popular because this article, as of this writing, is one of the most popular articles on Digg.

In fact, as we will see, services like Digg, YouTube, and Last. fm, are trying to do exactly that - (CF) based media outlets.

We are ready to create a new application for searching stories from the Digg clone application.

While he explained that it's difficult to know why the Digg widget works better, he speculates it may be the sizing of the font used.

The comments attribute represents the number of comments (on the Digg site itself) associated with that article.

Dr Wu and Dr Huberman began by choosing a clear case of a novelty-based strategy, a website called digg. com.

By looking at information through the lens of the collective community on Digg, you'll always find something interesting and unique.

Content owners across the Web can embed Digg code on their own sites, so the digg button is available even off the Digg site.

The only thing on the disstill web page is a little slider bar that lets you filter Digg. com stories based on a minimum number of diggs.

To make matters worse, you don't even use the same username on Digg as you do on Twitter. How will we ever find you?

Hoffman is one of the Valley's most prolific angel investors, with stakes in more than 60 startups, including Facebook and Digg.

The submitter just used the title of the original article, not thinking of what would make for a good Digg title.

If this book were a weblog, it would feature digg-able entry after digg-able entry.

To make all of this work, Digg completely stripped out the old infrastructure and started over by building a completely new platform.

Now there's a simple web app that lets you customize the Digg RSS feed by the minimum number of diggs a story has received.

You can us he Digg API for commercial purposes, as long as you follow the license agreements.

If, for whatever reason, you do not provide any specifications, you will receive all articles from Digg, within limits.

Unlike in the U. S. , the German blogosphere also doesn't have large social news sites like Digg or Reddit to bring readers to blogs.

Another example of how product design decisions can bring the core of a Web application to life comes from the social media site, Digg.

Are the site's users patient enough to wait for improvements and bug fixes?

As the name implies, this is the endpoint used to retrieve articles from Digg.

The main question that comes to mind is: why hasn't Digg launched something like this yet?

A story on TechCrunch showed Google potentially adding in a voting mechanism to search results similar to Digg's methodology.

If you use social software like Flickr or Digg, you know what this means.

If you like the post, I'd really appreciate it if you helped spread the word by sharing it on Delicious, StumbleUpon or Digg!

This, said Adelson, will allow Digg to easily make changes to the frontend and react to user feedback during the alpha and beta phase.

Some evidence suggests that users of Digg, another social site, are 3 times less likely to click on an ad than Google users.

Scoopler is a real-time meta-search tool for Twitter, Flickr, Digg, and Delicious, with support for more services to follow in the future.

A hybrid mechanism that combines a Digg-like computer algorithm and community editors' choices recommends "top" translations to readers.

If I am linking to your story using a shortened Digg URL, Digg gets the credit, not your Website.

Recognizing the importance of social media, Digg recently implemented a new feature known as Facebook Connect.

Now, Digg's users can only email stories, or share them on Facebook and Twitter.

By editor-free, I mean that the top-level content of Digg is solely determined by popular vote among its users.

If you enjoyed this article, please share it on Stumbleupon, vote for it on Digg or bookmark it on del. icio. us.

I updated the Window title to be "Digg Desktop Version" and expanded the default Width and Height of the Window.

Using these features, Web developers can provide instant access to popular Web content without redirecting their users to digg. com.

This method should be contrasted with news voting sites like Digg, where users do explicitly vote for top stories.

Digg is known for harnessing the power of social media to create cool toys based on real-time activity of its users.

Digg's log-in window has a thick shadow around it to block out the noise of the page beneath.

The resources section focuses on stories submitted by users, which can be voted up, like Digg.

And this is why Digg decided removing the Top Diggers List would be the best course of action.

This data is invaluable both for advertising targeting and for data mining, and its far more sutble than Digg's voing system.

It sells votes on websites such as Digg, which let people share content and vote on which articles should appear on the site's front page.

This is an attempt to synthesize, analyze and categorize all of the responses from RWW, digg and Twitter.

The id attribute is the Digg identification number of the article.

If you are a prolific digger, for example, your friends can choose not to see an update for every single story you dugg.

This is so that users of Digg can look at a summary of the article and decide whether or not they would like to view the entire article.

Start a campaign, make your voices heard, Digg this, Digg that, quote this, quote that, just do something. . .

The thumbnail element provides key information about the thumbnail image which displays next to the Digg entry.

The Digg API employs a powerful set of features for users who want to programmatically access dugg articles, Digg events, and Digg users.

You can't expect to meet new people on Digg or Stumbleupon accounts without digging or stumbling.

The submit_date attribute represents the date that the article was submitted to Digg.

Likewise for rating stories on Digg, voting on Yahoo Answers, or using Google's 411 service (see "How Can Directory Assistance Be Free? " ).

Most publishers don't get vast amounts of revenue from Google ads so they're unlikely to expect more from Digg.

Like many entries in the social media scene, Digg enables its users to discuss submitted articles.

Why else would 4, 000 Digg users vote positively for a comparison between Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's wardrobes?

The href attribute represents the permalink to the article reference on Digg.

Users can now Digg their favorite podcasts (feeds and individual episodes).

One reviewer is Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg. com and an adviser to Chomp.

Video Enhancements: The main change here is a way to view videos directly on Digg in a lightbox.

If you liked this article, please vote for it on Digg . Thanks!

Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on, few disagree that Digg scripts damage the community.

Social software like Digg and FriendFeed uses complex algorithms to rank the relative importance of submitted items.

This is used in some sort of famous consumer web stories, like Digg, which I'm sure you've all heard of.

Besides filtering malware sites and other sites that violate Digg's TOS, "no other restrictions will be placed on content. "

According to Saleem, the only option that could work is for Digg to come up with more ground rules, but even that is a tall order.

It also means that Digg is betting that it is better at selling ads than newspapers are.

All editorial control belongs to the Digg community members.

Facebook users can also create a Digg account without the usual registration process using Facebook Connect.

Our studies confirm: 18% have a sign-in form or a link to the sign-in form placed next to it (e. g. YouTube, Reddit, Digg, Lulu, Metacafe).

In this sense, the Pronto social shopping community is somewhat like Digg.

Invite your friends or find them on Digg and add them to your friends list.

Consumers won't pay for news online, says Jay Adelson, chief executive of Digg.

In the case of digg. com's home-page, that half-life is 69 minutes.

Recall that Digg users can comment on submitted articles.

Digg will send you a link that you must click on to verify your identity.

Digg will send you a link that you must click on to verify your identity.

When you get on Digg, your readers won't see "database connection error" .

This blog has written about the characteristics of good Digg titles in the past but today I thought we should take another look.

Besides Facebook and Slide, there's Yelp, Digg, and YouTube.

I recorded a podcast with the Digg team to discuss the new features.

Then, as mentioned previously, other users can digg or bury it.

Sites such as StumbleUpon and Digg allow you to randomly find interesting Web sites based on various categories.

If Digg wants to continue its growth, it will have to find a way to attract more mainstream users without alienating its base.

So it's only natural that friends will digg each others stories.

It gets ranked up high on Digg and the other social networking sites.

In addition to killing the DiggBar, Digg will also unban all previously banned domains.

Visits to Reddit have only increased 2. 6% during that same period, suggesting users may one day dig Digg again.

They submit stories and ask their friends to digg them.

Almost all social media sites, from Digg to Twitter, have some way for users to control who can and cannot reach them.

Like most APIs within the social media realm, Digg is easy to use.

You can do a number of useful things with the Digg API.

A new site called Spotplex launched today that arguably sorts news in a better way than Digg does.

This returns 10 comments in XML format (remember, Digg only returns 10 unless you specifically ask for more).

That's because Digg only shows summaries of posts.

On the homepage, Digg will also expose why a story appeared in your feed.

In any case, a key component of getting people to notice your story is having a good Digg title.

Your Digg account will expire after 3 days if you fail to validate your e-mail account.

Today's big news from TechCrunch is is that Google is in the final stages of acquiring digg for about $200 million.

Right now our Digg application doesn't do anything, and when it is run it brings up an empty page.

Of course, for each Flickr or Digg there are hundreds of failed social sites.

The result of all these factors is that Digg breaks the cardinal rule of voting: independence.

Mashable has a list of Digg tools and resources, with Firefox add-ons and more.

This is part one of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple Digg client application using Silverlight 2.

Social-sharing widgets first appeared about five years ago, when online services such as Digg Inc. allowed users to share news articles.

The two companies have reportedly signed a letter of intent and are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property.

News aggregator Digg has built a Gearman network of similar size to crunch 400, 000 jobs per day.

Handy upgrades like these should help keep Digg from getting buried by competitors such as Mixx and Reddit.

Digg blocks accounts based on IP address, too. I wonder if they've also banned Qatar.

Build your own digg. com-workalike site using diggClone.

Notice the button to the left of the article. It shows how many "diggs" this story has recieved.

I don't think this is necessarily that restrictive, as Digg users have a wide variety of interests.

Say you stumble across a news story you like. You "Digg" it, by clicking a link at the end of the story.

This is part two of eight tutorials that walk through how to build a simple client application using Silverlight 2.

Think that something you write might get enough attention to get "slashdotted" or dugg by digg, or some other high-traffic-generating site.

Digg rates, for example, depend on the time of day that a story is posted and the category it belongs to.

In English - This doesn't just mean that you shouldn't submit French or Spanish titles to Digg (although that's important too).

You can now pimp out your desktop and catch more of the good stuff submitted to Digg every day with Digg screensavers.

Remember that the goal when building our search sample is to create a page that looks like the one below

Once they become friends, you can keep track of the stories they are digging, as well as send them messages called "shouts. " To add friends

I will appreciate if you can spread the word via Digg , Stumble and other social media websites, Thank you

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