Over the past month a slew of big players have unveiled socially driven applications that all seem to have one thing in common: Digg. Here’s a rundown of new sites that have raised some eyebrows over the last month.
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Last night, AOTS called Digg’s credibility into question with this segment on social media. In doing so, they hosted a panel discussion with experts Annalee Newitz of Wired and David Ewalt from Forbes.com. Annalee recently made waves with an exposé on how she bought votes on Digg.
What they fail to disclose in between jabs at […]
Conservapedia is a newly launched wiki which purports to be the Fox News of internet encyclopedias. I’ve been getting a kick out of comparing the entries on Conservapedia to their counterparts on Wikipedia. So I made a bookmarklet to make it easier to jump back and forth between like-named entries.
To use it, just save or […]
There are some things social news has yet to master. Here are some types of content and methods of aggregation that have proved clumsy or non-existent on social news sites.
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From a Digg user’s point of view, Spotplex is a site that takes all the work out of social news. Users don’t need to submit, vote or comment on content. This begs the question: is the future of social news automated?
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If you were watching the Netscape tracker yesterday, you would have noticed a massive spike in new registrations. It coincided with their re-launch of My.Netscape, which uses the same login as their social news site.
The result: over 6,000 new registrations in one day. This helped to push them past a new milestone: 150,000 registered users.
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Today, Netscape re-launched My.Netscape as a customizable Ajax homepage. Netscape Navigator Fedquip produced this handy tutorial for using it to track Netscape tags:
You might also consider combining multiple tags into one content module by using Yahoo! Pipes.
