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Has Digg really “unbanned” those banned sites?
It has been observed that previously banned sites don’t appear in the popular lists even now and a good number of new posts that are submitted are landing up in buried lists minutes after they are submitted. Muhammad Saleem tries to seek answers when he asks Has Digg really “unbanned” those banned sites?. (0)

Digg Should Sue Wired?
Mike Arrington suggests that Digg Should Sue Wired over the “experiment” conducted by Wired Reporter. I disagree totally, because what she did was prove that Digg can still be gamed, despite Digg’s claims that it can’t. The argument continues… (0)

She Bought Votes on Digg
In a bid to prove that Digg could be gamed, Annalee Newitz of Wired News created a “pointless” blog with absolutely no useful data and pictures and submitted it to digg. She then bought diggs on User/Submitter and managed to get the story on the homepage before it got buried. (6)

The Digg Mafia Exists; or is it Digg “Support”?

I did chronicle my experience about my post Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions!
Though there were traces of the existence of the mafia, no one proved it until Pronet Advertising used a script that worked on top of Digg Spy to reveal previously hidden information of who was burying which posts.
Everton decided [...]

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How Reddit beat the Digg Mafia

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech_news/How_Reddit_beat_the_Digg_Mafia’;
Last week I posted an article Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions!.
For one, I definitely didn’t expect it to hit the homepage of digg. But, there is an interesting story to tell.
The story was submitted by a top Digg user and in five hours had managed to get only 15 diggs [...]

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Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions!

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech_news/Why_The_Digg_Mafia_Will_Cost_Kevin_Rose_Millions/’;
Update: I’ve posted an update on the events that surrounded this article.
If you’re a blogger and you haven’t heard of Digg.com before this post, then where have you been?
Digg.com was one of the social networking/blogging successes of 2006, but recently, the once sparkling star has begun to dim. People have started to question [...]

Posted by Ajay under Articles, Social Bookmarking, Tech News
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del.icio.us gets more del.icio.us; so does FeedBurner

If you’ve had the boring “add to del.icio.us” buttons so far, then it is time to get a change.
del.icio.us today released a new social bookmarking button titled Tagometer.
Using a JSON data feed, the Tagometer displays the number of users bookmarking the page and the top three tags used.
It is available in two varieties, a [...]

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Digg’s Design Update Overated?

Digg has updated its page design which has received a good amount of news today.
However, one report that interested me the most was the post on Mashable.
The social news site Digg announced some updates today that are generating lots of fawning, as usual. The changes are neat, but it seems that Digg is being congratulated [...]

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Coming Soon: Netscape Chat

Netscape.com has a threaded comment system, via which you can communicate with other members about stories, and a messaging system, via which you can send messages to your friends on Netscape.
In addition to that they will be adding a new feature viz. Netscape Chat.

A static chatroom will be added to Netscape where you can chat [...]

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