Digg

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Digg is a provider of social bookmarks for all types of news, videos and podcasts .

functionality

References to news ( blog entries, press releases or news) are posted by users with title, description and category and are rated positively by other users with the help of the reference “digg it!”. A referral can also be rated as spam or problematic in other respects; it is then "buried" (bury). Interaction via your own blog is also possible.

Because of the popularity of this service, it has already been compared to Slashdot . This competition leads to providers like diggdot.us, who, alongside Digg and Slashdot, aggregate frequently marked bookmarks from Delicious . Another effect of Digg is that particularly small websites are quickly flooded with inquiries through a "successful" Digg link and go offline (this is also referred to as the " Digg effect "). On the other hand, there is now the option of making "gagged" websites available via mirrors and relieving the burden on the original page .

Realignment

On July 13, 2012, it was announced that the domain, brand, and technology behind Digg were sold to investment firm Betaworks for just $ 500,000, while employees went to the Washington Post's SocialCode project for $ 12 million switched and LinkedIn acquired Digg's patents for $ 4 million. As a result, the network was completely redesigned and version 1 went online again on July 31, 2012. The innovations include a new rating system and improved integration of other networks such as Twitter and Facebook .

Problems

Digg is a business model built on the social dynamics of the web community. The inherent risk of user-controlled content was revealed in early May 2007 when the HD-DVD - AACS process key number was posted on the site.

Digg was then requested in writing by the HD-DVD Trade Group to remove the references to the AACS key. The page was then flooded with entries that contained this number in the description or with websites that published this number.

On May 3, 2007, Digg surrendered and officially announced that it would no longer delete posts that contained this number or linked to it, and bowed to the pressure of the angry Internet users, although they had to fear legal consequences. In the course of the escalation, the sequence became so widespread that it could hardly be called a secret - domains with the sequence in their name were registered, t-shirts were printed, and many bloggers scattered the key indiscriminately in their blog posts . Traditional newspapers covered the story, and the issue became a new internet phenomenon .

Diggnation podcast

Diggnation is a weekly video podcast that introduces and discusses the best digg contributions. Diggnation will be moderated by digg.com founders Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. Both had previously worked together on the US tech broadcaster TechTV's The Screen Savers . Diggnation is part of the Revision3 program and can be accessed on the company's website, but can also be reached via the URL diggnation.com.

A recurring element in almost every issue is the moderators drinking different types of beer and commenting on the beer taste, as well as the interaction with the camera and the people in the room.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Arrington: Digg is (almost) as big as Slashdot. November 9, 2005.
  2. ↑ Spiegel Online Netzwelt sold Digg leftovers for half a million . July 13, 2012. Accessed March 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ The Deep Fall of Digg.com ( Memento from January 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ User revolt at Digg.com shows perils of Web 2.0 ( Memento from December 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Geeks will not be silenced: Digg riot in full effect
  6. ↑ HD DVD The Code Shirt

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