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
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 ...
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 27 2008 | drupal, diggDigg-like user voting for Drupal sites.
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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).
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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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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.
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 15 2007 | digg, wsj, bookmarks
Rather than commit real-estate to a user-generated content add-on to the WSJ, only those that click the Digg button see this extra page of "most popular" stories from Digg on the WSJ.
It's both an incentive to hit the Digg Button, AND, it shows the feedback of the digg community to those who are most interested. Pretty clever.
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 14 2007 | digg, wsj, security
Not only can you read paid content Dugg on WSJ, but you can just as easily spoof the browser referer tag to read ANY article behind the for-pay firewall on the WSJ site.
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 14 2007 | digg, wsj, newspaper, security, referer, spoofing, firefox
WSJ is adding Digg buttons AND opening a worm-hole to their proprietary content by allowing clicks from digg to display normally for-pay content!
WARNING: The following may be construed to be a violation of the DMCA - use at your own risk.
All you have to do to see premium content on WSJ is:
- Download refspoof (firefox addin).
- Navigate to the paid content you want to see. For example:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119498643110891751.html
- Type "http://digg.com" into the refspoof toolbar
- Click "Spoof" button.Viola! You now get to see the whole article just as if you have visited WSJ via a click-through from digg.
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2007 | digg, social
Digg has launched some new features - the main one being a more customizable user profile, and a Facebook-like news feed to see the activities of your friends on Digg.
To me, digg is not so much a social network as a global news source. So I'm not sure how many people are going to want to use all these social features.
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