Digg

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Guide Note: Digg is an online community where users post and rank different types of media, predominantly news articles. Users post and rank articles/blogs, which are ordered by popularity on the Digg website. Digg was created by former Tech TV personalty Kevin Rose and launched in December 2004. Rose had come up with the idea the previous fall and hired a programmer from Elance at $10 per hour to bring his creation to life. By February of 2006 Digg had become a huge force in the area of social news as millions of users turned to it for their daily news. Since its success there has been several rumors of an acquisition however none have yet to be confirmed. Along with this success several companies have attempted to launch services to rig or artificially inflate a stories popularity. To combat abuse Digg has implemented several fraud detection layers into its algorithm.

Fast Facts:

Launched: December 2004
Founder: Kevin Rose
CEO: Jay Adelson
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA

The Mahalo Top 7

Official Site: Digg
Official Blog: Digg the Blog
CrunchBase: Digg Company Profile
Wikipedia: Digg
Digg Labs: Experimental Digg Services
Pronet Advertising: Beginner's Guide to Digg (November 6, 2006)
YouTube: Digg, The Song (Time: 2:42)

Digg Company Info

Corporate Profile: Digg, Inc.
Federated Media Publishing: Digg

Kevin Rose (Founder)

The Mahalo Guide to Kevin Rose
Official Blog: kevinhasablogg
Former Blog: krose.typepad.com
Official Podcast: Diggnation
Wikipedia: Kevin Rose

Digg News

Google News: Digg
TechCrunch: Digg Responds To User Disquiet With “Town Hall” Meetings (February 1, 2008)
Wired: Digg CEO Jay Adelson's Take on the So-Called "Revolt" (January 24, 2008)
TechCrunch: Digg Changes Algorithm: No More Group Voting Up Stories (January 23, 2008)
TechCrunch: 9 Reasons Why The Digg Story Sells (January 21, 2008)
Techmeme: Digg Hires Bank, Hoping to Sell for $300 Million Or More (December 17, 2007)
TechCrunch: For Sale: Used Social Voting Site, Asking Price $300 Million... (December 17, 2007)
CNET: "Digg Continues to Battle Phony Stories" (2006)
CNET: "The Big Digg Rig" (2006)
BBC News: "Readers Are Digging the News Online" (2006)
Wired: I Bought Votes on Digg
Search Engine Roundtable: Digg Digest Archives

Digg Tips & Tricks

Digg: How Digg Works
WordPress.com: How do I Digg?
Valleywag: "Cheatsheet: What is Digg?" (2006)
SEOmoz: "Anatomy of a Super Digg"
MacNN: Digg iPhone Beta launches (July 11, 2007)
DoshDosh.com: 12 Must-Have Tools for Active Digg Users (March 18, 2008)

Digg Tools & Hacks

Digg Labs
Digg: Official Digg Tools
Digg's Top 100 Users
Digg the Blog: "Integrating Digg Within Your Website" (2006)
Video: "Hacking Digg With Firebug and jQuery"
Aviran's Place: Digg This - Wordpress Plugin
Quick Online Tips: Amazing Digg Tools Collection
Mozilla: Digg Firefox Extension

Digg Blogs & Commentaries

Digg the Blog
Valleywag: Digg
Technorati: Digg
ReadWriteWeb: Link Attraction Factors: Getting Dugg and Going Viral (February 20, 2008)
John Graham-Cumming: How Many Users Does Digg Have? (January 29, 2008)
Mashable: Digg Joins DataPortability, Will Support OpenID (January 29, 2008)
Digg Updates Algorithm - Digg Community Revolts (January 24, 2008)
Digg Uses Smarter Algorithm to Manage Their Community | Will Pate's Blog (January 24, 2008)
Valleywag: Exclusive: Digg's Secret Editors (January 17, 2008)
Technically Speaking: Digg, “To be the man.. oh hell.. you ARE the MAN!” (January 10, 2008)
Editors Weblog: "MySpace News to Challenge Digg"
O'Reilly Radar: "Digging The Madness of Crowds" (2006)
Mashable: "Digg V3 Launches" (2006)

Digg Competitors

Digg Criticism

Digg: "Digg Censors Stories That Offend Sponsors"
Guardian Unlimited: "Watching Digg's Bury Brigade"
Tom Taylor's Blog: "The Downfall of Digg" (2006)
kuro5hin.org: "Why Digg Failed" (2006)
SearchRank: 7 Reasons Why Mixx Is Better Than Digg (March 18, 2008)

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