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Finally, Replaced Digg with Reddit

Reddit

I finally had to do it. I stuck with Digg for as long as I could. It’s the first social news site. Even after the infamous version 4, I stuck with them.

A decent number of Digg's hardcore users had already jumped ship since v4. I was too lazy to do the switch - mainly because the headlines I saw on their homepage didn't quite fit those on Wopular's. Digg was still providing me with relevant and interesting news.

 

A Failure In Rethinking Digg, And How To Bury A Dead Brand

Currently, the “New Digg” is facing a host of problems. Digg has 14 million pages indexed in Google, those pages are now 404′ed. Digg’s entire database of archived content vanished over night, including now-defunct user profiles. In one swift move, they’ve completely eliminated the community by removing each and every user account to exist,with little explanation and no answer to when users will be getting their accounts back.

 

After Digg, What’s Next in News Aggregation?

Digg

Digg rose to prominence years ago by changing the way people share news online. But its subsequent downfall – and $500,000 sale to Betaworks on Thursday – underscores the swift evolution of technology that is helping people discover content online.

 

Today marks the next stage in Digg's future.

Believe it or not, it's been seven years since Digg launched. To date, we've had over 350M Diggs, 28M Story Submissions and 40M Comments. We're extremely proud to have helped pioneer social voting on the web.

 

Reddit lifts its ban on The Atlantic, science sites still blacklisted

Reddit has lifted its ban on popular news publication The Atlantic, thus allowing its users to submit links to the community news sharing site once again. The news publication — along with BusinessWeek, Phys.org, GlobalPost, Discovery News, ScienceDaily, and others — was first put on a domain blacklist by Reddit about a month ago, as VentureBeat previously reported. Reddit management determined that these sites were guilty of artificially promoting their content on the site.

 

Reddit Names Yishan Wong New CEO

The front page of the internet has a new CEO. Reddit has chosen Yishan Wong to fill the online community’s top spot. Wong will oversee reddit.com, redditgifts.com, and reddit.tv. Writing at the reddit blog, Wong made the announcement, noting that he didn’t think, at first, that he would be a serious candidate for the position.

 

Why Digg's Rebound is Significant to Every Single Social Media Site

Digg

Once the shark is jumped, the downfall begins, and a social media site loses relevance, it's officially over for them. MySpace, Propeller, Yahoo! Buzz, Pownce, Mixx -- the list of social sites that couldn't turn it around goes on and on. Digg is proving to be the exception and it's an important twist for every social media site alive today.

 

YouTube Links Last Twice as Long as Those on Twitter or Facebook [REPORT]

When it comes to spreading popular content around the web, where you post matters. A study that link-shortening service Bit.ly released on its blog Tuesday shows that different kinds of links rise and fizzle at different speeds — depending on the platform they are posted on.

 

Digg Launches ‘Newswire’ Showing User Buries for First Time

Digg users have already started to notice a new Beta feature called ‘Newswire’ that Digg announced on its blog this morning. ‘Newswire‘, a real time Top News section on Digg that ‘allows users ‘to be editors’ and help choose the Top News instead of just reading it.

 

Buzzkill

Buzzkill

I knew Yahoo Buzz was one of the “sunset” sites - properties that would be shutdown by Yahoo. I still kept it on the site, but moved it to the bottom of the homepage. The quality of the articles being voted up have been on the low-end months before its eventual demise was announced; sometimes, you even get spam. The site had also been redesigned to its bare essentials.

 

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