MetaFilter posts tagged with digg

I Can Quit Anytime I Want!

ShawnStruck — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:57:23 -0800

Internet Vices: various Web 2.0 sites and services, recast as drugs and alcohol. For example, myspace "is huffing spray paint: Destroys any chance of looking credible. You will be perceived as having the mindset of a middle schooler, and probably do."

Let the hype rumpus start!

philip-random — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:01:55 -0800

Where the wild marketing is ... Last week, we wrote about Digg testing a new kind of ad that allowed sponsors to find previously submitted Digg content and and wrap it in their own ad unit. The first such ad just went live for everyone this morning. And it seems like a really great idea. But is the movie actually any good?

zeitgeist visualized

nickyskye — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:33:46 -0800

Digg Labs' Arc is a mesmerizing data visualization flash with an ongoing collage of various topics, a sort of animated zeitgeist: How to bake cheeseburger cupcakes l Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know l The Newest Giraffe: As Cute As He Thinks He Is? l Wascally Wabbits l Stories arrange themselves around the circle as users digg them.

Barring Digg

ardgedee — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:45:27 -0800

In the midst of increasing concern over dependence on URL shorteners, Digg perversely manifests one worst-case scenario, the DiggBar. Put your favorite website's URL into the Digg Bar, Digg provides a shortened version of the URL, handy for use in Twitter and other tiny media. What's the downside? Well, these days any link you follow from Digg has Digg's branding wrapped around it. Hey presto, Google suddenly looks like Digg property. Needless to say, people don't appreciate being assimilated without permission. Websites are fighting back. John Gruber of Daring Fireball offers a PHP one-liner that site owners can use to send Digg Bar users a message of their choosing: Daring Fireball's is a little rude. Daring Fireball's little message is also one of the most popular sites on Digg today (over 1,000 votes and growing) without Digg's homepage promoting it.

DIGG ATTACK

boo_radley — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:18:39 -0800

DIGG ATTACK is a game. Lead a small band of good guys (small bluish dots) in a struggle to flee from Digg Stories. Requires your browser support the canvas tag.

Googles social interface

stbalbach — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:31:49 -0800

Google is testing a Digg-like social interface to Google Search results, Techcrunch has an early preview video. This is bad news for Jimy Wales's Wikia since this is what they have been trying to build. Perhaps related it looks like Google is buying Digg.

User revolt at Digg

unSane — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:35:05 -0800

Total user revolt at Digg over HDDVD key 'censorship'. Every single front page post at Digg is currently a post about the HD DVD processing key, which the MPAA seems to have forced Digg to censor. A web 2.0 riot in progress, and a fascinating insight into the impossibility of censorship in a medium which routes around damage.

Pay to Play

four panels — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:56:56 -0800

Digg has been gamed. Wired writer Annalee Newitz used the User/Submitter service to buy votes on news site/social aggregatordigg. Hours after she hired the service, her fake blog site, now popular through treachery, was on digg's front page.

like, you know, totally

mendel — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:32:14 -0800

iliketotallyloveit is what you get if you apply the digg algorithm to stuff. Users submit their favorite stuff, new or old, and if enough other members agree with its awesomeness their favorite gets posted to the front page (along with where to buy it, of course).

Google Spreadsheets is just the coolest

chorltonmeateater — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:40:52 -0800

The 50 coolest websites : according to Time Magazine, at least. Who cares if they changed the world or not: as long as they're cool, that's all that really matters! Unsurprisingly, Digg's in there, as is MySpace (!), but they somehow seem to have neglected Metafilter, deciding that Cute Overload is way more hip instead. And no, Flickr's not in this one either.

rivers of babylon

telstar — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:14:48 -0800

95 theses of geek activism (via)

dzone is a free link-sharing community for developers

boo_radley — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:04:47 -0800

Dzone is digg for programmers and web developers.

corruption at digg?

reklaw — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:43:21 -0800

Is Digg being censored? Accusations have been flying about, and posts about it on Digg itself have been getting huge numbers of votes while mysteriously staying off the front page...

Diggdot -Digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us/popular mashup

srboisvert — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:37:01 -0800

Diggdot.us Digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us/popular - this is a constant browsing cycle for us. So why not combine them into a unified format without all the extra chrome? We can eliminate dupes and add some extra niceities.

next big thing: digg

johnnydark — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:21:48 -0800

yesterday: news.com
today: Slashdot
tomorrow: digg