Comments on: Digg - News for the Socialites http://blogs.webpronews.com/2006/11/09/digg-%e2%80%93-news-for-the-socialites/ Internet Business and Marketing Trends Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:59:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Amy Smith http://blogs.webpronews.com/2006/11/09/digg-%e2%80%93-news-for-the-socialites/#comment-469 Amy Smith Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:40:07 +0000 http://blogs.webpronews.com/2006/11/09/digg-%e2%80%93-news-for-the-socialites/#comment-469 Hi Joe - good story. I saw Cristian's earlier in the week too, both of you raise interesting points. There's alot to praise in digg, but the search functionality(which even Kevin Rose says "sucks") makes the entire experience kind of hit or miss in terms of whether you can discover content you actually care about, trust, like and thus "digg." The lack of true "social search" technology behind how friends and shared interests are presented also make it difficult to assess who you should make friends with and whether or not you can trust their recommendations beyond popularity. Searchles (www.searchles.com) which is four months out of the box definitely doesn't have all the answers to this yet but I do think our approach to presenting content and connecting users bears watching. Searchles allows users to showcase their expertise, enables collaboration with peers and captures it in searchable knowledge indexes. If you want to do something more intelligent with the content you care about and in collaborating with others around it beyond the glory of making it to the home page, it's worth taking for a spin. Hi Joe - good story. I saw Cristian’s earlier in the week too, both of you raise interesting points. There’s alot to praise in digg, but the search functionality(which even Kevin Rose says “sucks”) makes the entire experience kind of hit or miss in terms of whether you can discover content you actually care about, trust, like and thus “digg.” The lack of true “social search” technology behind how friends and shared interests are presented also make it difficult to assess who you should make friends with and whether or not you can trust their recommendations beyond popularity. Searchles (www.searchles.com) which is four months out of the box definitely doesn’t have all the answers to this yet but I do think our approach to presenting content and connecting users bears watching. Searchles allows users to showcase their expertise, enables collaboration with peers and captures it in searchable knowledge indexes. If you want to do something more intelligent with the content you care about and in collaborating with others around it beyond the glory of making it to the home page, it’s worth taking for a spin.

]]> By: Cristian Mezei http://blogs.webpronews.com/2006/11/09/digg-%e2%80%93-news-for-the-socialites/#comment-465 Cristian Mezei Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:08:11 +0000 http://blogs.webpronews.com/2006/11/09/digg-%e2%80%93-news-for-the-socialites/#comment-465 I agree Joe. Moreover, read <a href="http://tech.netscape.com/story/2006/11/09/is-digg-closer-to-extinction-than-we-realise" rel="nofollow">this story on Netscape</a>. I agree 100% with it. Digg needs to improve a lot of the current features. I have a post that I will publish tomorrow about this. I agree Joe.

Moreover, read this story on Netscape. I agree 100% with it. Digg needs to improve a lot of the current features. I have a post that I will publish tomorrow about this.

]]> By: Joe Lewis http://blogs.webpronews.com/2006/11/09/digg-%e2%80%93-news-for-the-socialites/#comment-464 Joe Lewis Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:05:21 +0000 http://blogs.webpronews.com/2006/11/09/digg-%e2%80%93-news-for-the-socialites/#comment-464 I noticed that, but the mere fact that they had to incorporate that into the algorithm speaks volumes about how important a writer's community status is to the placement of his/her stories on Digg. Sure, that might be some sort of a fix, but it doesn't change the fact that news is moving toward a contextually social medium and popularity is beginning to outweigh content. I noticed that, but the mere fact that they had to incorporate that into the algorithm speaks volumes about how important a writer’s community status is to the placement of his/her stories on Digg.

Sure, that might be some sort of a fix, but it doesn’t change the fact that news is moving toward a contextually social medium and popularity is beginning to outweigh content.

]]> By: Cristian Mezei http://blogs.webpronews.com/2006/11/09/digg-%e2%80%93-news-for-the-socialites/#comment-463 Cristian Mezei Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:50:10 +0000 http://blogs.webpronews.com/2006/11/09/digg-%e2%80%93-news-for-the-socialites/#comment-463 Joe, please don't forget the most important point: <blockquote>Very Very Important: If you have a LOT of friends (50-100 or more) you will need 2X or 3X as many diggs as a new user, to reach the frontpage. This is proven and 2 of the top10 users confirmed it to me. It’s natural that Digg implemented this for powerful users, because their friends dug their articles, so they have an advantadge over a usual starting user with just a few or NO friends. So if you are a very new user with no friends, you can still get to the frontpage with 30-40 diggs.</blockquote> So the friends system is a good/bad system. It's up to each one. Joe, please don’t forget the most important point:

Very Very Important: If you have a LOT of friends (50-100 or more) you will need 2X or 3X as many diggs as a new user, to reach the frontpage. This is proven and 2 of the top10 users confirmed it to me. It’s natural that Digg implemented this for powerful users, because their friends dug their articles, so they have an advantadge over a usual starting user with just a few or NO friends. So if you are a very new user with no friends, you can still get to the frontpage with 30-40 diggs.

So the friends system is a good/bad system. It’s up to each one.

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