Tag: SOCIAL BOOKMARKS

Mixx, a young social news site similar to Digg, just scored a button under "SHARE" next to the articles on the NY Times site. But this is hardly important news, so what's the big deal? The Digg-clone is only about half a year old, and as you can see in the picture on the right, only the the most established of social sites get a mention. Yet del.icio.us, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Fark, and other ...

For I don't know how long, Yahoo! News has provided the means to rate (aka recommend) news stories. It's not a simple "thumbs up/down" but a five-star scale. At the top of each topic page at Yahoo! News you can find links to "Most emailed," "Most viewed," and "Most recommended." The most recommended stories bubble to the top at several places (along with their respective RSS feeds): All news ...

If you're not directly affected and haven't heard the cries of agony of the tagging geeks (such as myself), you're among the few who haven't noticed that del.icio.us is down. The social bookmarking service's datacenter experienced a power failure last Wednesday and had been running sketchily up until yesterday, when it went down for "emergency maintenance." The power failure, it turns ...