Earlier today we mentioned Subvert And Profit, a company attempting to make a business out of gaming Digg.com’s news system by paying for votes. Now one of the mysterious individuals behind the site has come forward to answer a few questions. Vasili Taleniekov, a pseudonym drawn from the Robert Ludlum spy novel “The Matarese Circle,” won’t reveal his real name, but claims to like hacking and Ruby on Rails.
What sparked this idea? Are you aware of PayPerPost?
Vasili: We've thought about gaming Digg for a long time. We saw one User/Submitter become an eBay auction and we decided we could do better. We are aware of PayPerPost and recognize them as another player in our black marketing revolution.
You call your site “a new kind of black market.” Since nothing on the Internet remains anonymous for long, it begs the question: Is this just a media prank to illustrate a point about social networks?
Vasili: We are not a media prank. We are definitely proving a point about social networks, but that is not our primary motive.
Have you been contacted by Digg?
Vasili: Digg has not contacted us, and we don't expect them to. Digg probably won't wonder too much if we are unnoticeable.
If you are confident that the service you are offering users is sustainable and legal, why have you remained anonymous? When Will you reveal your identity?
Vasili: We have chosen to remain anonymous to make our entity more alluring. We anticipate that our cover may be blown eventually. If we ever sell our company, we will reveal our identities. We do not plan to sell our company on eBay; rather, we anticipate a legitimate acquisition by a larger firm in the distant future.
article from wired.com
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Digg breaks into top 500 websites
Alexa has just been updated, and Digg.com finally broke through the top 500 websites in the world and currently sits at 491! According to Alexa, the top 500 websites in the world account for 45% of the total net website traffic.
digg.com users come from these countries:
United States 48.3%
Canada 6.5%
United Kingdom 5.8%
India 3.3%
Australia 2.3%
More digg.com users...
United States 48.3%
Canada 6.5%
United Kingdom 5.8%
India 3.3%
Australia 2.3%
Germany 1.8%
Philippines 1.7%
Malaysia 1.5%
Spain 1.1%
Singapore 1.1%
France 1.1%
China 1.0%
Romania 1.0%
Israel 0.9%
Netherlands 0.8%
Indonesia 0.7%
Mexico 0.7%
Italy 0.7%
South Africa 0.7%
Turkey 0.6%
Poland 0.6%
Croatia 0.6%
Brazil 0.5%
Belgium 0.5%
Greece 0.5%
Other countries 15.6%Less...
United States 48.3%
Canada 6.5%
United Kingdom 5.8%
India 3.3%
Australia 2.3%
Germany 1.8%
Philippines 1.7%
Malaysia 1.5%
Spain 1.1%
Singapore 1.1%
France 1.1%
China 1.0%
Romania 1.0%
Israel 0.9%
Netherlands 0.8%
Indonesia 0.7%
Mexico 0.7%
Italy 0.7%
South Africa 0.7%
Turkey 0.6%
Poland 0.6%
Croatia 0.6%
Brazil 0.5%
Belgium 0.5%
Greece 0.5%
Other countries 15.6%Less...
Digg.com traffic rank in other countries:
United States 2889
Canada 460152
Australia 49
United Kingdom 52
India 812576
DiggUpdate Officially Released For Windows download diggupdate for windows and mac
The Digg You Know
DiggUpdate will instantly inform you of new Digg stories that hit the front page. Whenever a new item is dugg to the front, a window will roll down from your menu-bar (resembling Digg.com itself) and pleasantly inform you of new tech news. If multiple stories are found at the same time, DiggUpdate will compile the stories into one window to reduce clutter. Simply click left and right on the arrows to browse through all the new stories. DiggUpdate's Classic View truly brings the digg.com experience to your Mac's menu-bar.
The Slim Digg
Tight on screen real estate? DiggUpdate's Slim-Window will bring Digg.com news to your Mac in the most condense form possible. Each story will display its title, along with a small icon of the poster and the number of diggs. Multiple stories will stack for easy viewing, and a simple clear all button will dismiss all new stories. If you just want to read a story and be done with it, DiggUpdate makes your life easeir. Stories simply pop up and then a few seconds later fade away. No more individual closing. The slim-view provides all of Digg.com in the absolutely smallest but attractive way yet.
Yea, it Growls.
You decide. It's up to you. Do you like the slim window, or maybe you like the classic view, or maybe you just love Growl. DiggUpdate supports it all. You choose how you want your digg stories presented. Growl is a Mac OS X utiliity that provides for user messaging on a OS scale. DiggUpdate is fully compatible with Growl.
Drop-Down News
Do not forget that DiggUpdate still provides a great drop-down menu to provide all current activity on digg; however, look for a vastly expanded and improved experience when using it. New stories will now be represented by a yellow box while old stories are distinguished by the gray box to the left. The menu-bar will also present the number of diggs each story has right alongside the title. Although you can always find the new stories through the two Digg Windows, donÕt forget the fully functional DiggUpdate menu-bar with the last stories just in case you forgot a story (or accidentally closed it without reading).
Digg Your Friends
Tired of just reading about front page stories? DiggUpdate 2.0 releases the new and fully-functional friends feature. Each of the above tools also displays the latest activity by your friends. Imagine sitting down and suddenly in the top right of your screen, a Classic Digg Window scrolls down informing you that seconds ago, your friend Matt dugg a story about how Apple is going to release new 160 Gb touch-screen video iPods. Or how about, suddenly a small green Slim Digg Window shows up on your 12 inch Powerbook about how your friend Jane submitted a story about a new version of Google Earth? Or how about when you click on your highlighted yellow DiggUpdate menu-bar, you are greeted with a story that tells you of the release of DiggUpdate 2.0 dugg by your friend Will? DiggUpdate lets you stay in touch with your friends in the absolute quickest way possible.
Change the Way You Digg
Everyone likes things his or her own way. Software should be the same way. DiggUpdate lets you customize all the aspects to just the way you want. You can choose to display 8 front page stories and 3 friends stories and a 2 minute refresh rate. You can choose to use the Digg Classic Window that opens extremely quick and with a 70% opacity. Everything is just the way you want and only takes a few seconds to customize.
Discover Digg.com
If by now you still do not know what Digg.com is. The best description we can give is that Digg is a community based news site where users choose what stories should be promoted. And with that, go on and check out digg.com.
What's New in 2.6.0
*Real-time digg this button implemented on Classic Digg Window
*40 Story limit imposed to prevent errors
*Choose which section of digg to read
*Added Clear All Small Windows button to the menu
*Added Sparkle updater support
*Fixed drawing behavior on some button presses
*Fixed a warning being thrown when the Clear All button was pressed or the close button was pressed on a slim window
*Fading windows now fade for 2 seconds on all computers
*Slim windows now all fade out at once instead of queuing the closing of windows
*What's New in 2.5.1
*Fixed a bug where a user who had entered a username whose friends feed was empty or contained very few entries encountered a hang.
What's New in 2.5.0
*Added Growl Support.
*Slim Digg Windows fade away after a short period of time.
*Slim Digg Windows no longer take focus from Key window.
*Pause/Resume updates feature added to the menu.
*Menu visual improvements.
*Minor bug fixes and enhancements and compatibility check for Digg 3.0.
Source CodeDiggUpdate is distributed under the GNU GPL.
->Download Mac source code.
->Download Windows source code.
System Requirements for Mac
*Mac OS 10.4+
*DiggUpdate is a Universal Application
*System Requirements for Windows
*PC with Microsoft Windows 98,ME,2000 or XP (Works best with 2000 or XP)
*Microsoft .NET 1.1 runtime (Service Pack 2 for Windows XP already has .NET already installed)
article taken from http://dbachrach.com
DiggUpdate will instantly inform you of new Digg stories that hit the front page. Whenever a new item is dugg to the front, a window will roll down from your menu-bar (resembling Digg.com itself) and pleasantly inform you of new tech news. If multiple stories are found at the same time, DiggUpdate will compile the stories into one window to reduce clutter. Simply click left and right on the arrows to browse through all the new stories. DiggUpdate's Classic View truly brings the digg.com experience to your Mac's menu-bar.
The Slim Digg
Tight on screen real estate? DiggUpdate's Slim-Window will bring Digg.com news to your Mac in the most condense form possible. Each story will display its title, along with a small icon of the poster and the number of diggs. Multiple stories will stack for easy viewing, and a simple clear all button will dismiss all new stories. If you just want to read a story and be done with it, DiggUpdate makes your life easeir. Stories simply pop up and then a few seconds later fade away. No more individual closing. The slim-view provides all of Digg.com in the absolutely smallest but attractive way yet.
Yea, it Growls.
You decide. It's up to you. Do you like the slim window, or maybe you like the classic view, or maybe you just love Growl. DiggUpdate supports it all. You choose how you want your digg stories presented. Growl is a Mac OS X utiliity that provides for user messaging on a OS scale. DiggUpdate is fully compatible with Growl.
Drop-Down News
Do not forget that DiggUpdate still provides a great drop-down menu to provide all current activity on digg; however, look for a vastly expanded and improved experience when using it. New stories will now be represented by a yellow box while old stories are distinguished by the gray box to the left. The menu-bar will also present the number of diggs each story has right alongside the title. Although you can always find the new stories through the two Digg Windows, donÕt forget the fully functional DiggUpdate menu-bar with the last stories just in case you forgot a story (or accidentally closed it without reading).
Digg Your Friends
Tired of just reading about front page stories? DiggUpdate 2.0 releases the new and fully-functional friends feature. Each of the above tools also displays the latest activity by your friends. Imagine sitting down and suddenly in the top right of your screen, a Classic Digg Window scrolls down informing you that seconds ago, your friend Matt dugg a story about how Apple is going to release new 160 Gb touch-screen video iPods. Or how about, suddenly a small green Slim Digg Window shows up on your 12 inch Powerbook about how your friend Jane submitted a story about a new version of Google Earth? Or how about when you click on your highlighted yellow DiggUpdate menu-bar, you are greeted with a story that tells you of the release of DiggUpdate 2.0 dugg by your friend Will? DiggUpdate lets you stay in touch with your friends in the absolute quickest way possible.
Change the Way You Digg
Everyone likes things his or her own way. Software should be the same way. DiggUpdate lets you customize all the aspects to just the way you want. You can choose to display 8 front page stories and 3 friends stories and a 2 minute refresh rate. You can choose to use the Digg Classic Window that opens extremely quick and with a 70% opacity. Everything is just the way you want and only takes a few seconds to customize.
Discover Digg.com
If by now you still do not know what Digg.com is. The best description we can give is that Digg is a community based news site where users choose what stories should be promoted. And with that, go on and check out digg.com.
What's New in 2.6.0
*Real-time digg this button implemented on Classic Digg Window
*40 Story limit imposed to prevent errors
*Choose which section of digg to read
*Added Clear All Small Windows button to the menu
*Added Sparkle updater support
*Fixed drawing behavior on some button presses
*Fixed a warning being thrown when the Clear All button was pressed or the close button was pressed on a slim window
*Fading windows now fade for 2 seconds on all computers
*Slim windows now all fade out at once instead of queuing the closing of windows
*What's New in 2.5.1
*Fixed a bug where a user who had entered a username whose friends feed was empty or contained very few entries encountered a hang.
What's New in 2.5.0
*Added Growl Support.
*Slim Digg Windows fade away after a short period of time.
*Slim Digg Windows no longer take focus from Key window.
*Pause/Resume updates feature added to the menu.
*Menu visual improvements.
*Minor bug fixes and enhancements and compatibility check for Digg 3.0.
Source CodeDiggUpdate is distributed under the GNU GPL.
->Download Mac source code.
->Download Windows source code.
System Requirements for Mac
*Mac OS 10.4+
*DiggUpdate is a Universal Application
*System Requirements for Windows
*PC with Microsoft Windows 98,ME,2000 or XP (Works best with 2000 or XP)
*Microsoft .NET 1.1 runtime (Service Pack 2 for Windows XP already has .NET already installed)
article taken from http://dbachrach.com
Digg Signature Creator - Generate your own personal Digg Signature
DiggSig allows Digg users to enter their username and will generate a personal forum signature, including their latest Digg, Rank, Stories Dugg, Stories Submitted in addition to other useful Digg.com stats from their account. Signatures automatically update so to show your latest stats. Works on MySpace, forums, personal websites, etc.
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Digg Podcasting Update
Podcasts submitted to Digg have a cool "play now" feature. I was excited to learn that I could watch or listen to my favorite Podcasts within the Digg website. However, some Digg users may want to promote their own Podcasts without the extra advertising. Diggers can be sent directly to your website by e-mailing podcasters@digg.com.
Digg This Buttons For Your Website/Blog
"We’re glad to announce an update to our Digg This button. You used to need different tools to provide links on your site to submit content to Digg versus buttons to Digg content you’ve already submitted. Our new Digg This button has finally been given a brain to do both!"
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New Project in the Digg Labs: Arc!
Exciting new update to Digg Labs today. Thanks to the hard work of stamen design and support from Intel, we're launching a new animation, Digg Arc. While the other animations in Labs are at the story level, Arc is the first app that provides a view of Digging activity at the topic and subtopic-level.
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New Digg Widgets and an Update to Digg Labs
A lot of people have been asking us to make it simpler to add Digg content to their sites while giving them lots of options for customization. Today we released Digg Widgets, built off of our API, which provides much more control than the current Add Digg functionality. It’s a great example of what you can build from the API but we saved you the wo
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DiggUpdate 2.5 Released
Don't miss a second of digg.com with DiggUpdate in your menu-bar. New version includes Growl Support, fade-away Digg Windows, Pause/Resume updates and more.
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Digg API Update - New Features and Enhancements!
You're not the only ones using the Digg API. We use the API to build parts of the Digg web site itself! Often, we enhance the API to meet the needs of the Digg web site, and most of those enhancements are (now) available to you Digg API developers.
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Beginner's Guide to Digg
Beginner's Guide to Digg
If you have ever felt like you had to dig around the Internet for good content, you might want to look at something called Digg (digg.com). Digg is a site that will help you avoid the process of digging and instead, get exactly what others have dug up so you can see some of the great sites/stories/things out there on the Internet. Many people reading this might already know what Digg is all about so if you fall into this category, quit reading now and go elsewhere or you might feel this is a bit basic. If you haven't heard of Digg, read further and you can not only understand one of the more successful sites on the web these days but also get an idea of how you can leverage it for your business. Digg epitomizes the value of collective intelligence and community on the Internet in a way that not only brings value to its users, but also to businesses that are savvy enough to take advantage.
History
Digg was started as an experiment in October 2004 by Kevin Rose. The concept was to give people the chance to "dig" user submitted tech-related stories in order to get the most popular stuff in front of an audience that was interested in seeing the latest and greatest on the Internet. By December 5th 2004, the site was officially launched. After running for approximately a year, the site surpassed 100,000 users and as a result they were able to raise $2.8 million to help take the service to the next level. Shortly thereafter, digg.com grew to over 500,000 users and over 8.5 million unique visitors per month.
Overview
There are two main things that you can do on Digg. The first is to submit stories that you think the community will like and the second is to digg stories that you like.
Thousands of stories are submitted to Digg on a daily basis on a variety of topics. There are currently 7 categories on Digg which include technology, science, world & business, sports, videos, entertainment, and gaming. If you come across any stories that you think are interesting, you can submit them for others to vote on.
Digging
If you like a story you have the option of "digging" it, which is basically voting on it and endorsing it. However, if you don't like a story then you can bury it by marking it as duplicate, spam, wrong topic, inaccurate or even lame. If this is too simple and you'd like to say more, there is a comment section which gives you the opportunity to give your own two cents on the story and what you really think about it.
Front Page
There are two separate areas where stories are displayed, one is the upcoming section and the other is the popular stories section that begins on the front page. When a story is submitted, it has up to 24 hours to make it to the front page or longer if it has not been marked as duplicate, spam, wrong topic, inaccurate or lame. Digg's complex algorithms take multiple factors into account in order to determine if a story should hit the front page.
Some of the factors that the algorithm uses are as follows:
*The number of diggs
*Amount of buries
*Identity of the voters
*Time
*IP addresses
*Category
Example: Stories submitted in the sports category generally require less diggs to reach the front page compared to stories submitted in the technology category. Overall, less people submit and digg sports stories compared to technology stories which is taken into account by Digg.
If you have ever felt like you had to dig around the Internet for good content, you might want to look at something called Digg (digg.com). Digg is a site that will help you avoid the process of digging and instead, get exactly what others have dug up so you can see some of the great sites/stories/things out there on the Internet. Many people reading this might already know what Digg is all about so if you fall into this category, quit reading now and go elsewhere or you might feel this is a bit basic. If you haven't heard of Digg, read further and you can not only understand one of the more successful sites on the web these days but also get an idea of how you can leverage it for your business. Digg epitomizes the value of collective intelligence and community on the Internet in a way that not only brings value to its users, but also to businesses that are savvy enough to take advantage.
History
Digg was started as an experiment in October 2004 by Kevin Rose. The concept was to give people the chance to "dig" user submitted tech-related stories in order to get the most popular stuff in front of an audience that was interested in seeing the latest and greatest on the Internet. By December 5th 2004, the site was officially launched. After running for approximately a year, the site surpassed 100,000 users and as a result they were able to raise $2.8 million to help take the service to the next level. Shortly thereafter, digg.com grew to over 500,000 users and over 8.5 million unique visitors per month.
Overview
There are two main things that you can do on Digg. The first is to submit stories that you think the community will like and the second is to digg stories that you like.
Thousands of stories are submitted to Digg on a daily basis on a variety of topics. There are currently 7 categories on Digg which include technology, science, world & business, sports, videos, entertainment, and gaming. If you come across any stories that you think are interesting, you can submit them for others to vote on.
Digging
If you like a story you have the option of "digging" it, which is basically voting on it and endorsing it. However, if you don't like a story then you can bury it by marking it as duplicate, spam, wrong topic, inaccurate or even lame. If this is too simple and you'd like to say more, there is a comment section which gives you the opportunity to give your own two cents on the story and what you really think about it.
Front Page
There are two separate areas where stories are displayed, one is the upcoming section and the other is the popular stories section that begins on the front page. When a story is submitted, it has up to 24 hours to make it to the front page or longer if it has not been marked as duplicate, spam, wrong topic, inaccurate or lame. Digg's complex algorithms take multiple factors into account in order to determine if a story should hit the front page.
Some of the factors that the algorithm uses are as follows:
*The number of diggs
*Amount of buries
*Identity of the voters
*Time
*IP addresses
*Category
Example: Stories submitted in the sports category generally require less diggs to reach the front page compared to stories submitted in the technology category. Overall, less people submit and digg sports stories compared to technology stories which is taken into account by Digg.
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