Posts Tagged ‘digg’

Poll: Do You Use Digg or Netscape?

An interesting post came up on Performancing.com called Reasons Why I’m Liking Netscape Over Digg. The writer, Dee [correct me if I'm wrong], outlines why she is more interested in Netscape, and in turn, Netscape traffic, than Digg.

The main argument is that Digg is more narrow-minded than Netscape, in that Netscape has more categories and, apparently, a more diverse demographic, while Digg users are your 20-40 yr old techies… » Continue

May 21 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: digg, netscape, social-networking | 10 comments»

In the Know: Stay on Top of Your Field with Feeds

Need to stay on top of the breaking news or hottest trends in your line of work? Or are you a blogger who wants to keep up with your niche without a ton of surfing? If you’re like me, you like to get the most bang for your precious time — and you don’t want to waste it spending hours searching for the best and hottest stuff in your… » Continue

May 18 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: del.icio.us, digg, flickr, googlereader, gtd, technorati | 14 comments»

Digg Life: How Social Media Will Change the World

With a very simple concept, Digg.com has changed the fundamental nature of the news media and how millions of people access information. Digg (and its fellow social media sites) democratized the media, and wrenched control of what gets read from the gatekeepers of print and broadcast corporations and gave it to the people. Now, argue about whether this is good or bad, but it’s now a fact of life.

And… » Continue

May 9 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: digg, socialmedia, Technology | 51 comments»

Digg Like A Pro with Firefox & Greasemonkey

The ‘democratic’ news site, Digg, is a great way to share interesting items as well as keeping track of what’s making waves around the net.

Naturally, once you get into the process - creating Diggs, digging Dugg stories etc - you want to make things easier and quicker. Here are a few Firefox extensions and Greasemonkey scripts that work well to do so.

Firefox Extensions

Netscape’s Digg Tracker -… » Continue

May 3 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: digg, firefox, greasemonkey | 1 comment»

Flickr as a Hiring Platform

I’ve done it once and I plan to do it again.

I use Flickr to hire people for my projects. I needed some website art for a project I’m doing, and though I am capable of doing my own art, I realized that there were people who were far more talented than me. So, I looked around my 50 or so Flickr contacts and picked Sonya to do the… » Continue

August 7 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: digg, flickr, myspace, networking, socialnetwork, socialsoftware, web2.0 | 1 comment»