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Quoted: Joe Stump, Lead Architect at Digg, gave this presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo.

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Gnip provides an API layer to get access to data on some high-volume data publishers (Twitter, most famously).

They have both free and paid plans (it costs $ to get access to the full Twitter firehose).

Quoted: So Business Week gets their hands on Digg’s financials and reports that the company had 2007 revenues of $4.8 million and losses of $2.8 million. The first three quarters of 2008 Digg had revenues of $6.4 million and losses of $4 million. That implies total 2008 revenue of $8.5 million, with $5.3 million in losses. First of all, ouch.

Good introductory news story about Diggnation. What they don't say is the show is 90% about girls, potty-humor, and alcohol - 10% technology news.

Quoted: Alex Albrecht, one of the hosts of the popular video podcast Diggnation, wishes he'd picked a different beer. The selection he chose "tastes like beef jerky," he complains as he prepares for this week's show. "This is the worst beer ever," agrees his co-host, Kevin Rose.

Here is Mashable's take on Digg's recommendation engine.

Quoted: One of the biggest recent announcements from Digg, and one they put much emphasis on, was the recommendation engine; a system that learns from your digging habits and feeds you stories you might like based on what diggers like you recently found interesting.
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After using it for quite some time, like most such ideas, I find it utterly useless.

Heh, I've noticed the crazy angles before from different satellite angles, but this is the first time I've seen 3 stitched together.

Quoted: Photographic evidence seems to sure look like it.

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