Tag: SOCIAL NEWS

Microsoft has jumped on the social news bandwagon, creating two websites with a digg like social voting style. One for Norwegian consumers, the other for French Belgians. The sites let users submit news, headlines, and blog postings that other users can vote on. Similar to the Digg and Netscape models, users check out the latest stories while voting and commenting on their favorites. Users can ...

If you've ever had the good fortune of having one of your websites or blog posts dugg to the point of showing up on digg's homepage, you've enjoyed a huge traffic boost to your site. This is wonderful for web publishers, and I'm not going to lie and say that we don't care about it here at Download Squad; in fact, since the success of a given post is measured in large part by the traffic it drives ...

While social media sites seem to be the future of web site aggregation, at least one element of it, there's one aspect of these sites that is starting to get annoying. Have you noticed some of your favorite sites adding a row and sometimes multiple rows of links to social news sites, ostensibly to make it easy for visitors to bookmark or save the site on del.icio.us, digg, netscape, reddit, furl, ...

This one's for all you Windows-using digg fans out there. For awhile now Mac users have had a swanky little application called DiggUpdate that presents a tidy little window with information about the status of the articles you submit to digg on your desktop. I've seen many comments from Windows users begging for something similar for Windows, and now their wish has come true. DiggUpdate is now ...

I love Digg. Oops, am I allowed to say that? I'm sure it's okay. Anyway, I love Digg, but I find it sort of really overwhelming. I don't mind admitting that some of the best downloads I write about here come from social news sites like Digg, Netscape, Delicious, etc. But it's really hard to keep up with the information that flows from these sites - it's like standing in the line of fire of a ...