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Using Digg & The Wall Street Journal Together: Review with Screenshots

Posted on November 14, 2007August 20, 2008 By Bob Caswell 16 Comments on Using Digg & The Wall Street Journal Together: Review with Screenshots

Digg LogoDigg founder Kevin Rose announced that Digg buttons will now be available on the Wall Street Journal website (WSJ.com). Not only that, but anyone will have free access to any WSJ articles visited via Digg. Coincidentally, this news comes around the same time Rupert Murdoch suggested that he might take down the Wall Street Journal’s online subscription pay wall. Whatever the circumstances, I’m a daily user of both sites and welcome the collaboration.

In fact, here’s a walk through of how the integration looks and works:

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Tech News, Tech Reviews, Web 2.0

FriendFeed: A Solution to Fragmented Social Networking?

Posted on October 5, 2007July 13, 2008 By Bob Caswell 9 Comments on FriendFeed: A Solution to Fragmented Social Networking?

FriendFeedAnyone familiar with digg, Netflix, del.icio.us, flickr, Picasa, LinkedIn, Last.fm, StumbleUpon, reddit, etc. knows that any sort of social networking at any of these sites (that is, sharing / commenting / befriending) happens in isolation. Want to see what your friends are up to in terms of music listening, picture uploading, movie watching, career changing, or Internet bookmarking? Well, clear your schedule because you’ll need the time to log in to your dozen or so favorite social networks. Being social has never been so fragmented and time consuming.

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Amazon, Internet, Tech News, Tech Reviews, Web 2.0

Just How Digg-Like Are They? Chart Comparing New Sites by Yahoo, Microsoft & Dell

Posted on February 19, 2007August 20, 2008 By Bob Caswell 1 Comment on Just How Digg-Like Are They? Chart Comparing New Sites by Yahoo, Microsoft & Dell

Digglogo2The Yahoo Suggestion Board, Dell IdeaStorm, and MSN Reporter were all released last week and were all at least, shall we say, “Digg Inspired.” But should we call them Digg clones? How similar are they? Let’s take a closer look and compare things like purpose, voting/bury style, uniqueness, algorithm, login, default view, etc. See the chart below.

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Computers, Internet, Microsoft, Tech News, Web 2.0, Yahoo

Yahoo vs. Digg: Is Yahoo’s Move As Innocent As It Looks?

Posted on February 15, 2007August 20, 2008 By Bob Caswell No Comments on Yahoo vs. Digg: Is Yahoo’s Move As Innocent As It Looks?

So Yahoo today released a Digg-like voting system as the backbone of the Yahoo Suggestion Board. Even though the Yahoo announcement credited Digg, the Digg crowd is not pleased. The new suggestion system was first implemented for Yahoo Autos and of the top 5 “suggestions,” 3 have nothing to do with autos (see screenshot below).

My initial thoughts echoed what Michael Arrington said, “It’s an excellent way for Yahoo to gauge the popularity of suggestions, and is in no way competitive with Digg.” But then, what stops Yahoo from easily implementing this new Digg-like system elsewhere on the site? Answer: nothing.

Even then, if Yahoo competes with Digg down the road, what would that mean? Should I be upset for some reason? Digg has a good thing going, to be sure, I’m a huge fan. But I just can’t think of a good reason for Yahoo’s move to bother me.

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Internet, Microsoft, Tech News, Web 2.0, Yahoo

Digg Adds New Features, Removes One, and Entices YouTubers

Posted on December 18, 2006August 20, 2008 By Bob Caswell 5 Comments on Digg Adds New Features, Removes One, and Entices YouTubers

Our favorite social news site, Digg, today released a whole slew of new features while silently removing at least one. I say silently because no one seems to have picked up on it. For extensive coverage, check out the official Digg blog, TechCrunch, Read/WriteWeb, Download Squad, or NewTeeVee. Otherwise, read on for a quick summary and the missing feature:

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Media, Tech News, Web 2.0

Social Content vs. Big Media Content: Do You Have to Pick a Side?

Posted on December 11, 2006August 20, 2008 By Bob Caswell 6 Comments on Social Content vs. Big Media Content: Do You Have to Pick a Side?

Wow. The Blogosphere is all a buzz today on what seems to be a battle for which you’re supposed to pick a side. The major stories have to do with YouTube allowing CBS to filter comments on its videos and have them on a separate page (rather than right below the video itself) and the New York Times adding, that is, “surrendering to” social news (meaning, you can submit NYTimes articles directly to Digg, Newsvine, or Facebook from within an article).

Mix that with the lingering rumor that Fox, Viacom, CBS, and NBC might have a YouTube competitor in the works, and you have all sorts of opinions flying!

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Internet, Media, Tech News, Web 2.0

The Economist on Digg & “Social News”

Posted on December 1, 2006August 20, 2008 By Bob Caswell No Comments on The Economist on Digg & “Social News”

The Economist (subscription required) had some choice words in describing Digg and “social news.” After your typical one paragraph introduction to the concept, we get the following:

“Digg has become an internet phenomenon. It has over half a million registered users and has been valued at over $200m despite having just $3m in revenues and no profits. Its success has spawned similar sites such as Reddit and Newsvine, and prompted the world’s largest media company, Time Warner, to turn its ailing Netscape.com news portal into a social-news service instead.”

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Internet, Tech News, Web 2.0

Top 5 Digg-Like Sites Compared & Contrasted (including Digg)

Posted on November 20, 2006August 19, 2008 By Bob Caswell No Comments on Top 5 Digg-Like Sites Compared & Contrasted (including Digg)

For an introduction to the concept behind Digg, see A Beginner’s Guide to Community Driven Web Content. This post assumes you know what “Digg-like” means and will dive into the pros and cons / advantages and disadvantages of the top 5 Digg-like sites (read: community driven web content sites; it’s just easier to say Digg-like). The sites to be compared are Digg, Netscape, Reddit, Newsvine, and Shoutwire.

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Do-It-Yourself Tech, Internet, Tech Reviews, Web 2.0

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