All Posts Tagged With: "digg"

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Compilation Of Images On Digg

Digg.com has a wide arrangement of images that people submit to the site on a daily basis. This video on YouTube shows off a compilation of the funniest images highlighted on Digg. Some classics in this bunch for sure!

March 22nd, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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The Digg Story Doesn’t Sell Anymore

Muhammad Saleem posted an article on Techcrunch.com that goes over 9 different reasons on why the Digg story sells. Muhammad makes a series of points that I agree helped to propel Digg.com to success. However, the golden days of Digg.com are long gone.
One of the biggest reasons why Digg became successful was that it [...]

January 22nd, 2008 | Jeffro | 6 comments | Continued
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Get What You Want Out Of Digg

Digg is filled with a ton of cool stuff alongside a ton of crap. The best way to filter through all of the crap is to use RSS feeds. Digg offers an RSS feed for each category that is covered on the website. Although this type of filtering is great, I think it’s better to [...]

October 17th, 2007 | Jeffro | 8 comments | Continued
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Digg Labs ScreenSaver

Digg has turned their popular Digg Labs applications into desktop screensavers. The applications can be downloaded from their respective pages:

Arc
Swarm
BigSpy
Stack

The screensavers are available for Mac and Windows users and include Adobe Flash 9 if you don’t have it installed. On the Mac you’ll need at least OSX 10.4 and on Windows you need either Windows [...]

October 16th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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DIGG THIS PLEASE I’m Begging You

Over the last month or so, I have noticed a sharp increase in what has become known as DIGG BEGGING. These are people who post their links on Twitter, forums and wherever else asking sometimes begging people to Digg their article. The question I ask is, WHY? I understand the importance of the Digg front [...]

October 16th, 2007 | Jeffro | 7 comments | Continued
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The Truth Behind The Digg Effect

Chris Brogan, a social media maven, has published an article on his blog that goes into detail about his experience with the so called “Digg Effect“. Chris provides a visualization which shows the surge in traffic he received when he reached the Digg front page. What happened as a result? According to Chris, NOTHING. His [...]

September 25th, 2007 | Jeffro | 9 comments | Continued
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FireFox Has Its Own Sports Car

Check out this decked out sports car which is littered with all sorts of FireFox references. This thing has a very slick paint job. How many chicks do you think you’d be able to pick up with this baby?
Click on the image to see a larger version. Taken by nobihaya

On a side note, I was [...]

September 19th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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Why Reddit And Digg Are Crap

Gamma4Xray has put together a video which provides visuals explaining how we think web 2.0 works vs how web 2.0 actually works in regards to sites such as Reddit and Digg. The video does include some nice theatrical music to go along with the graphics and at the very end, Gamma asks the question, How [...]

September 18th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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Pownce Update Provides New Features

Kevin Rose startup, Pownce, has completed the roll out of a new update which contains a couple of new features such as on site image and video previews, other profile links and more user customization options.
Users can now view images and videos that are within links, on site. You’ll no longer need to actually click [...]

September 4th, 2007 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued
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Ajax Edit Comments 1.1.1.0 Released

Ronald Huereca has released a new version of his plugin, Ajax Edit Comments, which gives users and guests the ability to edit their comments similar to the way that comments can be edited on Digg.com The latest version includes a couple of bug fixes, most notably dealing with UTF-8 encoding.
The following issues were addressed in [...]

August 11th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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