Beloved mememaker Reddit.com had a good year, despite tensions with its owner, Conde Nast.
Reddit has perfected a model for sharing entertaining news, pictures and video. The site had been growing steadily, but a botched redesign at its main competitor, Digg, drove a huge bump in traffic to Reddit in August.
Digg launched a Read More
Digg, the social news aggregation site, has been having a bad month. After a disasterous redesign and a revolt by users many top staffers are fleeing the company and 37% of employees were laid off.
Now Fast Company is following up on some detective work by a disgruntled Digg user LtGenPanda, showing that Read More
There has been a lot of news over the past few months about the struggle between news forum Reddit and its parent company, Condé Nast. With Reddit’s main competitor, Digg, in a state of dissaray following a disasterous redesign, Condé has an opportunity to own the web’s biggest news forum, if it buries the Read More
The San Francisco-based aggregation site Digg debuted its hotly anticipated new design today. First impression: it looks a lot like the old Digg, though with an added dash of Facebook.
There are a handful of aesthetic changes that make the whole thing seem very blue. The main difference is that logged-in visitors to “Read More
An article on Alternet decisively describes a circle of hard right Digg power users who have been conspiring to bury stories they don’t like and stories posted by users they have deemed their left-wing enemies. The group, who called themselves the Digg Patriots, discuss strategy on a now-deleted Yahoo group. According to the article, Read More
Women are more likely to be chatting it up on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites you’ve probably never heard of, like “Bebo.” According to data taken from Google’s U.S. Ad Planner, a site that tracks popular Web sites’ traffic, 84 percent (or 16 out of 19) of the sites they studied Read More
If the NYTimes.com most-emailed list was curated by Aunt Mabel, Digg.com’s ‘top news in all content’ list is probably generated by her 20- (or 30-) something nephew: a Twittering, iPhone wielding, card-carrying member of Generation Wii. Here’s what this dude (we’ll call him Kevin) and the rest of Read More
If the NYTimes.com most-emailed list was curated by Aunt Mabel, Digg.com’s ‘top news in all content’ list is probably generated by her 20- (or 30-) something nephew: a Twittering, iPhone wielding, card-carrying member of Generation Wii. Here’s what this dude (we’ll call him Kevin) and the rest of Diggnation have been Diggin’ in the Read More
If the NYTimes.com most-emailed list was curated by Aunt Mabel, Digg.com’s ‘top news in all content’ list is probably generated by her 20- (or 30-) something nephew: a Twittering, iPhone wielding, card-carrying member of Generation Wii. Here’s what this dude (we’ll call him Kevin) and the rest of Diggnation have been Diggin’ in the Read More
If the NYTimes.com most-emailed list was curated by Aunt Mabel, Digg.com’s ‘top news in all content’ list is probably generated by her 20- (or 30-) something nephew: a Twittering, iPhone wielding, card-carrying member of Generation Wii. Here’s what this dude (we’ll call him Kevin) and the rest of Diggnation have been Diggin’ in the past Read More
