The History of Digg.com in 5 Minutes

28 jan 2010

Digg.com is the most popular social websites where story are mostly ranked based or user vote (or diggs). Kevin Rose launched Digg some five years ago and this video will walk you through the entire history of Digg.com in 5 minutes.

Kevin Rose Writing a Book – One to One Million

26 jan 2010

Kevin Rose, TechTV alumni and founder of social media site digg.com, is working on a book – One to One Million. Kevin Rose has signed a deal with HarperStudio to write a book about “the secrets to his success.” The book will be titled One to One Million.

Taking a Cue from Digg, Google Introduces Ads in Orkut That You Can Trash

18 jun 2009

If you don’t like a particular ad, just put it in the trash but if you found it interesting, share it with your other friends. That seems to be the new advertising formula for Orkut and Digg.

See What’s Popular on the Web In One Page

03 jun 2009

With OurSignal, you can scan the most popular tech stories on different social news sites from a common location including Digg, Reddit, Hacker News and Delicious.

Digg Finally Drops the DiggBar and Applies a 301 Redirect

21 apr 2009

Digg short URLs now do a 301 permanent redirect (instead of rel=canonical) thus passing on all the PageRank and search engine juice to the publisher’s website.

A Time-Lapse Movie of the Digg Front Page

17 apr 2009

This Time-Lapse video of Digg will help you visualize how stories move up and down with time on the Digg front page.

Yay! Digg is Permanently Removing the Diggbar for all but Digg Users

16 apr 2009

If you are not logged into your Digg account, you’ll never ever see the controversial Diggbar on web pages again even if you visit them via a Digg short URL.

How to Remove Digg Frame from your Website

11 apr 2009

If you aren’t too happy with Digg adding a frame to your web pages, here’s a simple Javascript that you may add to your page HTML and it will prevent digg from adding a frame (aka DiggBar) to your web pages.

Diggbar, in its current form, is Bad for your Website

09 apr 2009

Diggbar may not be bad for websites as it redirects all the incoming links juice, Google PageRank, etc. to the original source through the use of canonical links.