Tag: DIGG

For those who have been bitten by the Twitter bug, one of the hardest things to figure out is how to really bump up that "Followers" number (those folks who read your every update, a.k.a. 'tweet' in Twitter-speak). You eye the likes of Robert Scoble with jealousy, wondering, "how can I get tens of thousands of tech-addicted nerds to pay attention to my every 140-character thought?" Well, ...

Even with talks of a potential buy out from Microsoft and it's imminent demise circulating Yahoo! is continuing to roll out new services and update its products at an almost frantic pace. The company has opened up its search services to third party developers, updated it's corporate focused Zimbra mail server platform, launched a live webcam site, updated it's Yahoo! Video service, picked up ...

One of the most frustrating things a news hound encounters online is the Wall Street Journal. The preeminent financial paper in the country has still yet to join the rest of the online news world and offer its world class reporting for free. But fear not, faithful devourers of information, there is way around the Wall Street Journal's $79 a year subscription fee. And it's completely legal! When ...

Let this be a lesson to you: Take breaking up a little more seriously and try not to embarrass your soon-to-be ex anywhere that others might see. This was learned the hard way by video blogger Sandra Soroka who ditched her beau via a Facebook status update. The real mistake was posting an image of the status update on Digg, where scorned, geeky, men decided that Sandra had gone too far. Her ...

You may remember our story about Digg users getting all in a tizzy and posting -- a few thousand times -- the key to crack HD-DVD copy protection. Well now the AACS, who provide the copy protection for HD-DVDs, has reacted by saying "a line has been crossed." AACS is prepping "legal and technical" steps to prevent people from circumventing the copy protection on HD-DVD discs. It is also worth ...

In case you're unfamiliar, Digg is social bookmarking website. Users submit stories and then vote to "digg" or "bury" them. The most popular stories end up on the front page. This puts the power at Digg firmly in the users' hands much like at YouTube and other "Web 2.0" sites. User power at Digg was put to the test when someone submitted a story that contained a magic little number, a ...