Digg

Digg is a provider of social bookmarks, which specializes in all kinds of news, videos and podcasts.

Operation

References to news ( blog posts, press releases or news ) are set by users with title, description and category and rated by other users with the help of reference " digg it! " As positive. A reference can also be evaluated as spam or otherwise problematic, it is then "bury" ( bury ). An interaction with a private blog is also possible.

Because of the popularity of this service, he has been compared with Slashdot. This competition leads to vendors such as diggdot.us that aggregate next to Digg and Slashdot often marked bookmarks from Delicious. It is also an effect of Digg that particularly small sites are quickly flooded by requests by a "successful" Digg - reference and go offline ( one then speaks of the " Digg effect"). In contrast, there is now the opportunity to make " gediggte " websites about mirrors available and relieve the original page.

Realignment

On July 13, 2012 it was announced that the domain, the brand and the technology were sold behind Digg for only U.S. $ 500,000 to the investment company Beta Works, while the employee for 12 million U.S. dollars to the Social Code project of the Washington Post are changed and LinkedIn has acquired the patents of Digg for 4 million dollars. The network was then completely re- fitted and has gone on 31 July, 2012 Version 1 back online. The innovations include a new evaluation system as well as improved integration of other networks, such as Twitter and Facebook.

Problems

Digg is a business model, which is based on the social dynamics of the web community. The inherent risk of benutzergesteuertem content was early May 2007 apparently, than the HD - DVD AACS key process issue was published on the page.

Digg was then requested in writing by the HD - DVD Trade Group to remove the references to the AACS key. The site was then with entries containing this number in the description or with websites that published this number flooded.

On 3 May 2007 surrendered Digg and officially announced, not to delete posts that contain that number or linked to it, and thus bowed to pressure from the applied online users, even though they had so may fear legal consequences. Over the escalation sequence was so widespread that it can hardly be called a secret - domains that comprise the sequence in the name, have been registered, T -shirts were printed, and many bloggers interspersed the Key indiscriminately in their blog posts a. Conventional newspapers reported the story, and the number became a new Internet phenomenon.

Diggnation podcast

Diggnation is a weekly video podcast, which presents the best digg posts and discussion. Will be moderated by digg.com Diggnation - founder Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. Both have worked together before the U.S. technology in the broadcast channel TechTV The Screen Savers. Diggnation is part of the program of Revision3 and can be accessed on the company's website, but also on the URL to reach diggnation.com.

A recurring element in almost every issue is drinking different beers by the moderators and the commentary of beer flavor, and the interaction with the camera and in the area in ascending humans.