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  • September 2008
    • Investors Fund Big Digg Expansion

      Investors Fund Big Digg Expansion

      (Newser) - Social news site Digg has raised $28.7 million to fund an aggressive expansion and fend off rumors it will be sold, IDG News Service reports. The 4-year-old site, which allows readers to rank stories, plans to double its staff to 150, revamp its features, and expand internationally. The move is likely in response to Yahoo's launch of its own social news site, called Buzz. More »

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      Google   Yahoo   Digg

  • May 2008
    • Politics Battles Tech for Soul of Digg

      Politics Battles Tech for Soul of Digg

      (Newser) - With election season in full swing, the political junkies have come for Digg.com, making Hillary, Barack, et. al. fixtures on the social news site. That’s been great for traffic, but it’s also angered the tech nerd early adopters who made Digg a success, CNET reports. At a recent “town hall” webcast, questions flooded in complaining about the political news. More »

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      social networking   politics   news   Web 2.0   Digg

  • February 2008
    • Quiet on Microsoft, Yahoo Teases Debut of Digg Rival

      Quiet on Microsoft, Yahoo Teases Debut of Digg Rival

      (Newser) - Yahoo’s top execs were tight-lipped on the Microsoft buyout bid in addresses to an online ad conference today, but hinted at a new service set to debut this week which may be Yahoo Buzz, the company’s reported social news aggregator, writes cNet. Jerry Yang said he had been talking the proposal over with company board in order to ensure that Yahoo makes the right decision. More »

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      Microsoft   Yahoo   Jerry Yang   Digg

  • January 2008
    • Slashdot Doesn't Digg Ron Paul

      Slashdot Doesn't Digg Ron Paul

      (Newser) - Social news sites like Digg don’t work, says Slashdot founder Rob Malda, and Ron Paul is Exhibit A. “A lot of these community news sites are all about Ron Paul,” Malda told the New York Times . “What that is really demonstrating is that you are seeing 1 or 2 percent of a community shaping where the whole community is going.” More »

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      Ron Paul   Web 2.0   online news   Digg

    • Best Rock Movies of All Time

      Best Rock Movies of All Time

      (Newser) - Grab a blanket and some popcorn and settle in with Blender's best rock and roll movies of all time: This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Saturday Night Fever (1977) Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004) More »

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      list   movie   music   rock and roll   Digg   South Park

  • August 2007
    • 25 Essential Websites

      25 Essential Websites

      (Newser) - You find a restaurant on Citysearch, buy movie tickets on Fandango, and then go home and Google the guy you shared a cab with. Was there a time before the Internet? Here are the first 10 of Time' s 25 can't-live-without websites: Amazon.com BBC.co.uk Citysearch.com More »

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      Internet   list   Google   Facebook   eBay   Amazon.com   website   Craigslist   BBC   ESPN   Digg

  • May 2007
    • Users Revolt After Digg Censors DVD Hackers

      Users Revolt After Digg Censors DVD Hackers

      (Newser) - Web 2.0 blogs are rushing to declare Digg dead, after a night in which the site's main page was saturated with its own obituaries. The web's most popular user-generated news site prompted a mutiny by removing posts revealing how to crack encrypted DVDs and HDs. Digg said the illegal posts put the site's survival at risk. More »

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      Internet   blog   news   Web 2.0   online news   Digg

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