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Checking In on My Predictions from Last Year

Last year, I contributed some predications for RWW’s post about what would happen in 2009. How did I do? Let’s take a look.. 1. Twitter announces they have a plan to make money. They do. Well, they didn’t exactly “announce” they had a money-making plan, but the search deals with Bing and Google that launched [...]

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Why I Ditched My Friends On Digg

I’ll admit, I never was deeply involved in the Digg community. Sure, I enjoyed reading through the news and digging items I liked, but I didn’t have any goals to become a super-digger or form more intimate with relationships with any of the site’s users. Perhaps this lack of involvement made me a little naive. [...]

New Digg Comments System Rocks

Yesterday, thanks to Twitter’s ability to break news, I heard about the new Digg comment system from Digg founder Kevin Rose, when he posted (accidentally?) a video link to Twitter, but then quickly took it down. Perhaps a ploy, but it worked. The news hit the Digg front page fast. So what’s new with the [...]

Digg Firefox Extension

I just discovered the Digg Firefox extension today thanks to…well, thanks to a story on Digg! Since I’m all into Digg right now, I had to check it out. The extension lets you see whether or not the webpage you’re on has been submitted to Digg, and, if it hasn’t, you can submit it. If [...]

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Flotzam – Social Network Mashup App

Flotzam is a WPF mashup application that combines data from your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Digg accounts and then displays them, on one page. You also have the ability to add RSS feeds to Flotzam, and they will display, too. The app is basically a visualization tool, which, although pretty, isn’t what most would find [...]

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Newspond vs Digg: Who Does it Better?

A new social aggregator, Newspond, has been the talk of the blogosphere lately with some sites giving it glowing reviews and others offering a more moderate response. However, for a site whose tagline refers to itself as the "most advanced news site on the planet," it begs the question: "OH RLY?" Let’s see if that’s [...]

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