mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 23 2007 | digg, visualization, images
Dig labs has launched yet another somewhat-cool looking, but hard to understand, visualization of what is happening on Digg. This time, they are displaying the images that are posted to Digg. I think Faves has a far higher percentage of bookmarks with good thumnails - maybe we should look at doing something interesting with them from a real-time perspective.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - 15 days ago | digg, reddit, recommendations, algorithm
Rand's speculation on elements of a social ranking algorithm.
Quoted: At work today, Matt noted that he found Digg's algorithm far more interesting than Google's. I was shocked - after all, Digg isn't nearly as complex or widely used as Google, but with its rising popularity in the tech space, I could, at least, empathize with why he might feel that way. I also took it as a challenge to expose all the possible elements that might be in an algorithm at ...
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - 15 days ago | digg, recommendations
Archive of the most popular stories on Dig, by date.
Quoted: Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mike | Shared With: Everyone - 17 days ago | reddit, digg, open source, python
Reddit's open source project.
ShareViewed: 6 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 27 2008 | video, youtube, history, digg, del.icio.us, technorati, anthropology, michael wesch
click to playA new video by the creator of The Machine is Using Us. This one is long (1 hour).
Quoted: presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to ...
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 02 2008 | digg, recommendations, social, collaborative filtering
A fairly negative review of Digg's new recommendation algorithm.
Quoted: The [recommendation] Engine identifies Diggers like you to present stuff you might like, so keep Digging to get better recommendations.
Quoted: Digg's long awaited recommendation engine is now live for some users, which luckily includes me. It's time to take a look at what this new feature brings to
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 17 2008 | digg, js-kit, javascript, widgets
JS-Kit has been building some pretty usefull client-side widgets to promote user interaction on any website, without have to install additional server software. I like this model - now they've released a new scoring (think Digg) widget for content.
They also claim they will announce some publisher partnerships soon.
Quoted: Widget provider JS-Kit has released their latest widget this morning, Score. Score adds a thumbs up/thumbs down-style ratings widget to any page content, and then aggregates the data ...
ShareViewed: 2 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 27 2008 | drupal, digg
Digg-like user voting for Drupal sites.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 01 2008 | digg, widgets, web development
Digg's story widget page. Lots of customization and pretty simple JavaScript to include on your page (as well as easy to modify code).
ShareViewed: 10 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 01 2008 | news, digg, kevin rose
Video interview with Kevin Rose from December - he talks about a story recommendation engine they are working on to add to the site in 2008. Based on your social relevance to other users, Digg will propose stories to you.
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