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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Woot , the popular bargain site that offers one good (sometimes great) deal a day, has just launched a new portal at deals.Woot . The new site is a fairly major departure for Woot, which up until now has been driven by product selections from a team of Woot employees (aside from the main Woot.com site, which is often tech/geek focused, there are special subsites for shirts , wine , and a handful of...
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Rethink (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A few people are amazingly kind and Digg my posts, and I of course want to help them promote my work by sharing the Digg URL on Twitter. Trouble is, Digg URLs tend to be rather long for use on Twitter. For example, a recent post submitted: http://digg.com/arts_culture/Emily_Dickinson_Away_from_Home_are_some_and_I So I typically have wanted to find the Digg [...]
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Programmable Web (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
This past week 15 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 20 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include GamePro , Goodreads , and Maponics . The most often used APIs this week are Google App Engine , Google Maps , and Twitter . Shopping (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Mapping (3 APIs, 9 mashups), and Search (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows...
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Tech Maish (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
In my previous post i wrote about how to add retweet button in blog, now in this post we are going to add digg button in blogger. We all know about digg, Digg is the popular social bookmarking website and one of the most easiest way to get quick traffic and backlinks for your blog. Social [...] Related posts: How to Add Retweet Button in wordpress Twitter is growing day by day. Every one is now...
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eWeek (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
NEW YORK The Web 2.0 Expo was not quite the news-frenzy that its San Francisco-based brother Web 2.0 Summit was this year. But the show's creator and high-tech publishing guru Tim O'Reilly provided some zing Nov. 17 by arguing that arms races between Google and Apple as well as Facebook and Twitter threaten to stifle the Internet as we know it. O'Reilly also said Microsoft would emerge as a major player...
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Digg the Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Hey everyone – I’m excited to announce that our next guest for Digg Dialogg is Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Walt Mossberg, Personal Technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal and Co-Executive Editor of AllThingsD, will be sitting down and asking him your top questions. From today through next Tuesday, November [...]
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Marketing Pilgrim (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
In a headline from yesterday, the Wall Street Journal tells us that Digg CEO Jay Adelson has one less thing to worry about: “Profitability Is Not A Problem Anymore.” In an interview with Fox Business Network, Adelson addressed the issue of monetizing social sites—but I’m not so sure I’d say profitability isn’t a problem anymore. Adelson [...]
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Peter Thiel is best known as the guy who cofounded and ran PayPal before selling it to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. Since then, he's founded a $2 billion hedge fund, Clarium Capital, and the Founders Fund, a venture fund with $275 under management. Peter is also one of Facebook's earliest investors and now sits on the company's board. Peter is also an investor in Decorati, a site that connects interior...
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Telegraph Blogs - Technology (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Consumers won’t pay for news online, says Jay Adelson, chief executive of Digg. As a man who runs a news aggregator, Adelson clearly has an interest in ensuring that news remains freely accessible. Instead, Adelson wants to interest newspapers in Digg’s advertising system and share revenue that way. Adelson told Fox News: “First off, don’t expect [...]
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
This afternoon Digg CEO Jay Adelson was interviewed on Fox Business News, where he spoke about the future of Digg and the ways it could potentially cooperate with strugging news organizations. During the interview Adelson made a few interesting comments, some of which contrast with News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch's assertions in an interview conducted earlier today that "people understand that it's...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Digg CEO Jay Adelson told FOX Business tonight that ever since rolling out Digg Ads, the social link-sharing service has been making money and that profitability is right around the corner. Although advertising continues to be the only seemingly reliable model for monetizing content-centric websites, Adelson reports that click-through rates are higher than expected. That being said, typical rates...
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Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Kevin Rose was at the Web 2.0 Expo and admitted that he was interested in making the Digg homepage location based. That means that those who are in Chicago will see a different Digg homepage than those in London. But Rose said that the technology isn’t there to offer that option yet. “The [...]
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Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Content that's relevant to you Digg's founder and CEO have said that it would like to offer location aware homepages however the technology isn't there to offer that just yet. Talking at the web 2.0 expo the duo suggested that users will in the future be able to see a localised version of the digg homepage whether they were in India or Chicago. "The noise out there is extreme" claimed a...
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rickwebb.net (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
RickWebb: 8:36PM: walking to meet the Digg gang at The Standard. http://flic.kr/p/7ghwvu
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