Posted by multippt
Why is Digg like a casino? Well, even though it does not give you money in return, it does give you a lot of visitors to your site if you managed to “win big”. However, winning comes at a cost. You will tend to submit your site more and more. Even if you lose, the outcome is still the same - you’ll continue to be loyal to Digg. More »
Posted by multippt
Digg apparently had a small problem that resulted in Diggs being redirected. This may cause posts showing the “Digg This” button in other sites to show the wrong Digg count, and redirects Diggers to a very old Digg article (it is a Chinese article, now removed pending solving this problem). This problem is probably a glitch, and not a hack.
The problem only affects those using the bigger “Digg This” buttons. It is probably patched up by now.
Via ReadWriteWeb
Posted by multippt
I’ve just tune into Digg just today, and found out that Digg… looks much different. Digg sure looks “web 2.0″, especially with all of that fanciful rollovers, and dropdown menus. There are even new icons for the bury, email and comments button! The user interface has improved quite a lot, utilizing even more icons. Though, while the outside has change, would the inside (or internals) of Digg change as well? Only time can tell…
Posted by multippt
In a bizarre twist of fate, Pligg [one of the more well known Digg clones] gets landed on the auction table - not by force, but due to the difficulty of maintaining it financially. The winning bidder would gain access to the CMS, its distribution, and the community - quite a nice bargain isn’t it, considering Pligg has a community of over 10000 members (that are registered), with 60000 downloads. It is hoped that the new owner would help bring Pligg to greater heights.
Fortunately, the change in hands of Pligg development would not occur so soon - it may take months. For now, Pligg would be still under the hands of its original owners, until next time.
*Hmm, what ever happened to supergu?
Via Pligg forums
Posted by multippt
Digg now takes on a new look, which is admitably stylish and extremely neat. The best part is… it passes the xhtml validation test, something most (simpler) websites do not even pass (including this one, but we’re working on it). This is an amazing feat for one of the largest social sites on the internet.
Kudos to digg.
Posted by multippt
Digg, which is a website that combines social bookmarking, blogging and syndication, is very useful to maintaining site growth. This is especially true when you have something which you want to share with the world.
Digg brings traffic
A little traffic does not hurt any website right? Digg is one way of bringing in some. Once a story reaches the front page (after receiving roughly 35 diggs), it will receive immense amounts of traffic. However though, digg can bring so much traffic that it can cause your site to go down with it (known as “digg effect”). Nevertheless, users are more willing to read your article since they visit the website on their on free will (well, most of them are). They are not forced to visit the site and thus, the visitors generated by digg are truly genuine.
A good way to start a site
Obviously, a new website does not have a lot of visitors (unless you cheated). Thus digg serves as a way to show your webpage to the world. In addition, digg allows other users to comment and rate the story in your site, and thus one can find out ways to improve on future stories.
Digg = business + money
Some companies utilise digg as a means of earning money. They try to promote a site provided the owner pays them well. Examples of such services are User/Submitter, Friendly vote and Spike the vote. They may do so by asking the owner of a site to pay for votes, while the company pays the users to vote for it (sort of like bribary), such as User/Submitter. However, this form of forced digging is regarded as cheating since the people that have more money to spare can monopolize the service.
Integration
Its easy to integrate code in your website to send stories to digg. It also allows users of the website to click on a direct link to the specific digg webpage to digg the story. It can be integrated with blogs and news articles. Digg even provides methods to allow users of a website to use digg even though they are not on the official site. Digg works with other services such as youtube.
Digg is quite big
Digg has over 500000 registered users and growing, and most of them frequent the site. Thus, there is a high possibility that 1 of those users might actually stumble across your website. Also, digg has a strong user base since there is always something new there each day and thus attract surfers who are bored.
Thus digg together with a website makes a very good couple.
